Example sentences of "would [verb] he for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He grew a real beard , which would incommode him for other parts ; he thought , behaved , responded Learwise , in as short-sighted a fashion as that monarch would have done , having handed on his characteristics to his youngest daughter . |
| 2 | There was scant eating in the meat , but it would sustain him for some days , assuming he could keep the scent away from wolves . |
| 3 | Lucie forced a penny into his soft , sleeping palm ; dumped his shearing tools in his lap , and pulled his cap down over his face in the hope that nobody would recognize him for one of the players . |
| 4 | He was dressed in the garb of a typical construct worker , so that anybody he passed would take him for such . |
| 5 | In November 1959 he found himself back in Montreal , ‘ to renew his neurotic affiliations ’ as he was to repeat endlessly to journalists ; meeting his friends and family , sometimes bumping into his uncles who would take him for expensive meals at top restaurants — such as the Ritz — and hotels ; and generally awakening and reawakening those impulses and memories which would fire his imagination and energise his mind for months to come . |
| 6 | One of these fine days , when he 's my uncle , I would thank him for this . |