Example sentences of "would have [verb] for a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It would have to wait for a more opportune time , she decided , and replaced the receiver . |
| 6 | Sometimes he would have to wait for an hour or more before he could find someone to carry him to the Collector 's side . |
| 7 | I would have thought you would have gone for a commission . |
| 8 | ‘ No , thank you , ’ she replied with clipped civility , even though she would have killed for a drink of water and some aspirins . |
| 9 | I think one would have to push for a ‘ we are marching and that 's that ’ position . |
| 10 | Beauty is only skin deep , as they say , but I would have hoped for a lot more from a C64 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | What I would have given for a sesame bap . |
| 16 | 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 ? ? |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She would have to work for a month for that . |
| 21 | as well as a development charge to the Board , is still paying less in the total cost of his house than he would have to pay for an existing house with vacant possession . |
| 22 | ‘ When I was 16 I would have died for a cream cake , but how I 've brainwashed myself not to want them . ’ |
| 23 | We would have to hope for a Tory victory , but , because of the uncertainty about the outcome of the election , he could not put her on the waiting list . |
| 24 | In fact , she thought , tonsure his greying hair and put him into a plain robe and he would have passed for a tubby , somewhat benign-looking monk . |
| 25 | The Abidjan protocol would have provided for a greatly expanded UN mandate . |
| 26 | The profession can not be certain how much this will save , as it depends on the amount provided for when the supply estimates were settled ; but we estimate a saving of £15 million on the assumption that the Government would have provided for a 1.5% increase . |
| 27 | ‘ I think if Kylie Minogue has been a flash in the pan she would have lasted for a couple of singles . |
| 28 | The filthy canalside lacked most of the qualities Lefevre would have chosen for a romantic interlude , but some men were not so particular . |
| 29 | Dr. Robert Upshall , who would have fought for a seat in Parliament , said party supporters would continue to hammer home the environmental message . |
| 30 | THE predicted overspend on the new British Library would have paid for a £1 million public library for every UK local authority , leaving over £100 million for an extension to the British Museum Reading Room with a new underground storage area — which was what everyone wanted in the first place . |