Example sentences of "i would [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd stand for hours in front of the mirror , painting my face and fingernails and backcombing and lacquering from a sticky , plastic squeeze bottle until my hair resembled a busby . |
| 2 | I just thought I 'd watch for the , you know I think it 's on every erm it 's on every da , ways you know Hawaii Five O is showing the old things again . |
| 3 | I 'd vote for the party candidate . ’ |
| 4 | I assume Fairclough will drop back and one of the two will fill his role ( I 'd vote for Rocky with Hodge on the bench ) . |
| 5 | I 'd vote for anyone who 'd promise to provide a good road link between Hereford and the motorway . |
| 6 | One back-bench MP summed up the mood of the Scottish parliamentary party , saying : ‘ If he does n't make the grade by the end of the year then there 's no way I 'd vote for him again . |
| 7 | And and really I mean you ca n't I 'm I 'm s I 'm saying that you , you ca n't interfere but by god I 'd long for someone to come in and interfere . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd scream for Penny if you did , ’ she asserted sharply . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd settle for a few years with four legs like a cheetah and be able to go at forty miles an hour , ’ Otley declared . |
| 10 | Failing that I 'd settle for reincarnating as either Paul Raymond , Madonna 's fingers , Phil 's meat pie collection , Ian Osborne 's dentist ( not that he 's ever been to see one , mind you ! ) , a bar of soap in an all-girl boarding school or a big black cat named Thad ! |
| 11 | I 'd settle for an equal share . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd settle for a sandwich . ’ |
| 13 | " I 'd settle for any decent , dry bank , myself " he thought , " as long as there was some grass and no men with guns . |
| 14 | I 'd settle for that . |
| 15 | I 'd settle for you . |
| 16 | But I 'd settle for you sitting still for a while . " |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd settle for a Big Mac . |
| 18 | A shotgun would be ideal , though I 'd settle for a .22 rifle , but a crossbow will just have to do . |
| 19 | I 'd plump for unemployment , given the choice . ’ |
| 20 | In the old days , as soon as I heard the dirge start up , I 'd reach for the OFF button . |
| 21 | He gave me £30 a week and I 'd pay for the bills , £12 rent , £5.50 for two bags of coal and the rest went on food . |
| 22 | I 'd pay for it myself but my card 's up to the limit . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd pay for a cup of wine and I have dice , though I would love to know the finer points of the game ! ’ |
| 24 | I 'd pay for that . |
| 25 | I mean if I knew for the fact that I was gon na get this job at the hospital I 'd pay for it |
| 26 | Yeah if I knew some facts that I had a job to go to , I 'd pay for it myself |
| 27 | ‘ The recovery is taking a little more time than I 'd hope for but I 'm rather impatient . |
| 28 | I really could n't I would never get the price I 'd want for the alphabet . |
| 29 | Then I 'd disappear for days and make everyone go crazy with worry while I whooped it up down the nearest alley with some ear-tom tom . |
| 30 | I went to this party at Mr Midwinter 's and it 's a wonderful house with footmen and things , and I went in just the sort of clothes I 'd wear for a party here in Helsinki . |