Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd have killed for an outcome like this at any time since 1975 . |
| 2 | Yeah , originally they 'd have ducked for three |
| 3 | ‘ If the FA had asked me personally to select our opponents I 'd have gone for Orient , ’ said Still . |
| 4 | He 'd have gone for the Toraja " star funeral " , too , if we only knew when it was happening . |
| 5 | Six months ago he 'd have gone for it , maybe written back to some of them , seen it as a way out of the rut that his life had become … but not now . |
| 6 | If we 'd have gone for plc status first , then it would have given us the chance to work as a proper company . |
| 7 | or surely we 'd have gone for a different lot , |
| 8 | what before his exam for his test ? , he 'd have gone for his medical and it was found on his |
| 9 | Having said all that , you 'd have hoped for tighter marking on the best striker in England when he 's already got 2 goals ! ! |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd have asked for a final orgy myself , but each to his own . |
| 11 | I know you say she 's very nice but she ca n't be all that special or you 'd have fallen for her donkeys ' years ago . |
| 12 | If he 'd been thrown in as he was , he 'd have sunk for a bit , and then probably come up again . |
| 13 | I 'd have banked for a draw actually |
| 14 | I 'd have cried , I 'd have brooded for a long time . |
| 15 | I tell you , if I 'd have know what the content of the training was gon na be , I would 've arranged for our twelve crime prevention officers to go across there and listen to it , because there was a locksmith there that gave a lot of sound advice in relation to security of homes as well cars that really was good basic grounding for a crime prevention officer . |
| 16 | ‘ That would 've done for a start . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Germany is now paying a price few other countries would have accepted for not providing itself with better citizenship and immigration laws in the calmer years before unification . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I can not believe that the Masai , as I know them , would have applied for membership of an association of which they must be completely ignorant' . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , the prosecution failed to disclose that the complainant had a spent conviction for theft , and it was held that , had the conviction been duly disclosed , the defence would have applied for and would undoubtedly have been granted leave to cross-examine the complainant about it . |
| 22 | Most believe he would have played for Wales but for a serious knee injury in 1975 which put him out of rugby for two years . |
| 23 | Still , it seems unlikely that all eight members of the harmonie rustique would have played for this number . |
| 24 | If she had simply gone straight to France when she had received his letter she would have fallen for it even more . |
| 25 | ‘ Developing countries are afraid funds for combating climate change will come out of funds that would have gone for development aid , ’ says Reddy . |
| 26 | I would have gone for something a little snappier : ‘ A mad cow with a handbag , ’ comes to mind as a first attempt . |
| 27 | I would have thought you would have gone for a commission . |
| 28 | A harsher critic would have gone for the jugular and claimed that this was a blunt reiteration of those dormant adolescent prejudices . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ If I 'd gone first , the house would have come to you with ten thousand and the rest would have gone for research into glandular diseases . ’ |