Example sentences of "would have [verb] for the " in BNC.

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1 The counter-girl told me I 'd have to wait for the manager .
2 We 'd have to wait for the next one then .
3 He 'd have gone for the Toraja " star funeral " , too , if we only knew when it was happening .
4 ‘ We could have the name on their jerseys — but we 'd have to pay for the strip ! ’
5 Without such action by the judge , Intel would have to wait for the new 80287 trial to be completed before the company could file any appeal .
6 Although nationalists could express themselves freely in cultural terms , their aspiration for a united Ireland would have to wait for the ballot box to decide .
7 A harsher critic would have gone for the jugular and claimed that this was a blunt reiteration of those dormant adolescent prejudices .
8 It could n't have been hit by a missile because we know there are no missile-carrying planes around — even if there were , a heat-seeking missile , the only type that could nail it at that altitude , would have gone for the engines , not the nose cone .
9 As to Wayne Proctor , there were those who would have gone for the former Welsh hurdler , Nigel Walker , though , heaven knows , Proctor , the fastest player in the side , was himself no mean athlete in his schooldays .
10 But for the titles of the books on the shelves , however , Harry felt it would have served for the conduct of almost any other business than that of healing troubled minds .
11 And it is to the trade union that they would have to account for the exercise of that authority .
12 ‘ I often think how poor Mr. Green would have trembled for the issue , as the passing of this beautiful Property with many hands may exceedingly disfigure a neighbourhood , which he poor man often busied his hand in beautifying . ’
13 In other words Jordan would have to act for the Palestinians .
14 P. Ransome-Wallis remarked that one platform would have sufficed for the traffic , and indeed it was not long before Trinidad 's railways , together with those of all the smaller West Indian islands , were shut down .
15 Not too late , Chris Court said , as he would have to listen for the Division bell and might have to run for it .
16 In the past the NZRFU might not have dealt with submissions from individuals ( such as Knight or even Mayhew ) but would have waited for the details to come , union-to-union , through the usual official channels .
17 If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract .
18 To imagine an activity in isolation presumably means imagining , so to speak , the minimum bit of reality which would have to exist for the activity to go on .
19 ’ It might have revived her career , as it certainly would have done for the 42-year-old Doris Day .
20 She looked on it , without telling him , as a way of exercising her voice , practising her breathing as she would have done for the stage .
21 None of it would have done for the Grail Castle and the gentle remote creature to whose bed Grainne was going .
22 How you would have hated this , Gabriel , how you would have hungered for the sea and the sky , the hurly-burly and the heave-ho , the teamwork and the solitude , the unpredictability , the freedom , the danger of the waves .
23 In the absence of such a clause the buyer would have to prove for the damage suffered under the normal common law rules .
24 It is not disputed by any member of the European Community that if that part of the directive were to be implemented everybody would have to pay for the associated benefits .
25 He would have to pay for the policing of that out of this year 's money .
26 They asked Meehan , who was in a neighbour 's room , about a gas meter and a broken window and Mohammed Mansha told him he would have to pay for the damage .
27 A lump sum widow 's payment of £1,000 will be paid if you would have qualified for the widow 's allowance .
28 Under the supplementary benefit scheme , many of this group would have qualified for the householder rate — valued at £30.40 .
29 Violence was a daily part of their lives , and the men paid Trent 's leash as little attention as they would have spared for the commonplace of a bleeding corpse sprawled in the gutter back home .
30 Personally , I would have voted for the lads at Cain 's Brewery but Twitters may have got the jitters if the revamped Higson 's had made the headlines .
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