Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd have killed for an outcome like this at any time since 1975 . |
| 2 | or surely we 'd have gone for a different lot , |
| 3 | He 'd have gone for the Toraja " star funeral " , too , if we only knew when it was happening . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd have asked for a final orgy myself , but each to his own . |
| 5 | If he 'd been thrown in as he was , he 'd have sunk for a bit , and then probably come up again . |
| 6 | I 'd have banked for a draw actually |
| 7 | I 'd have cried , I 'd have brooded for a long time . |
| 8 | ‘ That would 've done for a start . ’ |
| 9 | If I 'd wanted to really zoom around the fretboard I would 've opted for a medium/short-scale bass with really light , roundwound strings . |
| 10 | Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted . |
| 11 | I would have thought you would have gone for a commission . |
| 12 | A harsher critic would have gone for the jugular and claimed that this was a blunt reiteration of those dormant adolescent prejudices . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ No , thank you , ’ she replied with clipped civility , even though she would have killed for a drink of water and some aspirins . |
| 16 | Beauty is only skin deep , as they say , but I would have hoped for a lot more from a C64 . |
| 17 | Even the Government President of Upper Bavaria felt compelled to admit that the relief about Hitler 's survival was not unanimous , but that ‘ part of the population would have welcomed the success of the assassination attempt in the first instance because they would have hoped for an earlier end to the war from it ’ . |
| 18 | Seven or eight had died in hospital , yes , and some of those would have lingered for a day or two ; fair enough or even blond genug , as the Army usually put it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Delaney had already got one leg over the door frame that led below , and would have stopped for no one , except that his glance took in the obvious truth . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | What I would have given for a sesame bap . |
| 26 | ’ It might have revived her career , as it certainly would have done for the 42-year-old Doris Day . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | None of it would have done for the Grail Castle and the gentle remote creature to whose bed Grainne was going . |
| 29 | In other words ‘ if he thought he was nt part of the future plans Id have told him so and he would have asked for a transfer … has he ? ? |
| 30 | ‘ I am the mother of a spastic child but had I been told before his birth that my son would be handicapped I would have asked for an abortion . |