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

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1 As far as new managers go , I 'd have to go for a partnership between Mr. Robson & Mr. Hoddle .
2 We 'd have killed for an outcome like this at any time since 1975 .
3 Now he 'd have to rely for a lift on Colin who would n't be so keen on coming out of his way .
4 I remarked to my friend , ‘ You 'd have to wait for a long time to get a train from here , ’ he smiled and we both set off for the youth hostel down the road .
5 But the point of our ‘ numbers of planets ’ argument is that , even if the chemist said that we 'd have to wait for a ‘ miracle ’ , have to wait a billion billion years — far longer than the universe has existed , we can still accept this verdict with equanimity .
6 or surely we 'd have gone for a different lot ,
7 ‘ I 'd have asked for a final orgy myself , but each to his own .
8 If he 'd been thrown in as he was , he 'd have sunk for a bit , and then probably come up again .
9 I 'd have banked for a draw actually
10 I 'd have cried , I 'd have brooded for a long time .
11 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 .
12 To find its most lasting realization , Charlie 's vision would have to wait for a bank clerk who did understand metempsychosis , and who had not only a commercial education gained in an underground room at Lloyds Bank , but also a knowledge of Greek .
13 Last Friday the civil servant in charge of government policy on radioactive waste management reiterated Whitehall 's position that a solution to the disposal issue would have to wait for a future generation .
14 On February 27 she was told only a heart transplant would save her husband 's life and they would have to wait for a donor .
15 It would have to wait for a more opportune time , she decided , and replaced the receiver .
16 Sometimes he would have to wait for an hour or more before he could find someone to carry him to the Collector 's side .
17 I would have thought you would have gone for a commission .
18 ‘ No , thank you , ’ she replied with clipped civility , even though she would have killed for a drink of water and some aspirins .
19 I think one would have to push for a ‘ we are marching and that 's that ’ position .
20 Beauty is only skin deep , as they say , but I would have hoped for a lot more from a C64 .
21 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 ’ .
22 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 .
23 She 'd never known any details ; she did n't know if the accident happened early on , or whether she would have to sit for a long time just waiting for the inevitable .
24 It would take about er it would take about three days like to really give it and then it would have to lie for a wee while to harden you know , the polish to harden .
25 What I would have given for a sesame bap .
26 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 ? ?
27 ‘ 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 .
28 CARL Lewis , who bleated because he was n't allowed to run in the Olympics against Linford Christie , has ducked out of the World Cup in Cuba where they would have met for a 100 metres showdown later this month .
29 These factors alone would have made for a rapid shift between free and unfree populations ; but in many parts of Europe the relation between them was complicated by local custom and legal variety .
30 She would have to work for a month for that .
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