Example sentences of "would be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd be forgiven for thinking that Meany 's camera equipment probably went ‘ crunch ’ on this one . |
| 2 | When the 15 men from no fewer than eight countries run out in front of a packed house for the 111th Bowring Varsity match at Twickenham today ( tues ) you 'd be forgiven for thinking you were watching some sort of world invitation XV taking on Cambridge . |
| 3 | You 'd be forgiven for doing a double take . |
| 4 | YOU 'D be forgiven for thinking that LES AMANTS DU PONT NEUF ( Cert 18 ; W.E. ) — translated it means ‘ Lovers on the Pont Neuf ’ — would be all hearts and flowers . |
| 5 | You 'd be forgiven for thinking that Windows 3.1 is the biggest selling application of all time , with unit sales of around a million a month . |
| 6 | He wrote : ‘ To judge by a lot of the stuff written about bands like U2 , you 'd be forgiven for thinking that rock starts are the new Messiahs . |
| 7 | I 'd be sending for the police . |
| 8 | ‘ Then we 'd be done for . |
| 9 | Right so we 'd be settle for how much we 're going to get paid . |
| 10 | I 'd be prepared for you to go fortnightly . |
| 11 | She 'd be scarred for life . |
| 12 | With sons they 'd be cared for in their old age , their death rituals would be properly performed and their souls would rest , satisfied . |
| 13 | GUIL : You 'd be lost for words . |
| 14 | ‘ You said you 'd be leaving for Newcastle ? ’ |
| 15 | Too late for any more useful sleep , I 'd be leaving for London at six to avoid the rush . |
| 16 | If I was spending £500-ish on amplification , I 'd be looking for good second-hand gear , and there 's loads of that about . |
| 17 | ‘ Called hup this morning , ’ Willie heard him say , ‘ so if you know anyone who 'd be looking for a job let me know . |
| 18 | He supposed that she 'd be looking for her key . |
| 19 | Er they would n't look for you when you were there , but if you 'd gone out somewhere , oh they 'd be looking for you . |
| 20 | ‘ You 'd be looking for something shaped like a truncheon or a torch , ’ said Pike . |
| 21 | So if the president of my company calls from Allentown and says Ricky I 'd like to see you in my office on the thirtieth , I do n't say I 'm sorry Steve , it 's catch up day , I say what time would be convenient for you Sir , because you know , otherwise I , I 'd be looking for a job . |
| 22 | Erm tt whether that 's appropriate , you know , I 'm thinking of it as a first appointment just to get a general picture whereas you might be coming back to stir his memory for referrals by saying er , you know , er you mentioned here you 're a member of the squash club , do you remember I said I 'd be looking for introductions , maybe we 'll learn whether at the beginning of the second appointment you jog the memory there er you know in other words what I 'm do doing is keeping that in my mind , that you are remembering the squash club or whatever club it may be and use that later , although I did n't er elaborate on it at that , that er because I think you can go off at a tangent |
| 23 | I do n't think Fred 'd be looking for anything as a return . |
| 24 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 25 | But then we 'd be looking for francs . |
| 26 | You know , hardly get a go-round in the in the Dictionary of Quotations but at least you got the person there which is right , but in actual fact , how I might have treated that and I might what might have grabbed me a little bit more would have been the story which I would be looking for , I 'd be looking for my journalist to turn that into and therefore you might as well try and do it for us , because journalists like , like count on your labour , as I |
| 27 | Normally I 'd be reaching for ‘ annihilate ’ button when faced with such an ‘ aware ’ and ‘ right-on ’ selection of topics but Leatherface succeed where so many others have failed by virtue of the tuneful tempestuousness of their music , an assault with melody , muscle and sheer conviction which is irresistible , and the fact that Frankie Stubbs never sounds like a po-faced preacher — unlike a certain other native of the North-East whose name I can hardly type without sending my blood-pressure into the red . |
| 28 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 29 | But when magistrates told her she 'd be jailed for three months , she collapsed in the dock . |
| 30 | If you were caught , you 'd be charged for being improperly dressed — you had to be in uniform . |