Example sentences of "that i 'd [vb infin] for " in BNC.
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1 | The idea was that I 'd go for a fortnight but when I got there she gave me the bum 's rush so I spent a couple of miserable days in France and then hared it back to England . |
2 | We arranged that I 'd go for the weekend , but I would n't leave my sister . |
3 | 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 ! |
4 | Sometimes I was so affected by a particular view or landscape that I 'd wait for the athletes to run into it before taking a photo . |
5 | I thought first of all that I 'd wait for the newspaper reports of the killing and use those as an excuse . |