Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] would [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that I had to protect myself from another pounding — if I let him into my heart I would be done for . |
| 2 | To the outsider they would be mistaken for smartly uniformed security guards rather than the trained storm-troopers they were . |
| 3 | After a couple of years they would be exchanged for someone else of sufficiently high position . |
| 4 | ‘ I said after the European Championships I would be looking for a much more settled squad , ’ said Taylor . |
| 5 | But nobody told the fish over millions of years of evolution that one day they would be prized for their decorative/educational/food value and put in overcrowded conditions ( relatively speaking ) in glass tanks/bowls , or ponds . |
| 6 | What you 're looking in any formula say from a carbon compound you would be looking for that was bonded to four different groups , it does n't matter what the groups are , it does n't matter how big , how small they are |
| 7 | Whether the pups had been put there in the hope they would be cared for , or just dumped , is not exactly known . |
| 8 | I have interviewed people who had spent 30 years in a big bureaucracy who said that the 6-month development task force was the only thing they were excited by and the only thing they would be remembered for — change was their mark on the organization . |
| 9 | One engineering firm had so many applications for time off that it warned absentees they would be suspended for three weeks . |
| 10 | With less than twenty minutes of his shift remaining he had already decided on the clothes he would be wearing for the special occasion . |
| 11 | And certainly from erm my department 's point of view we would be looking for er an inclusion of a criterion on the need to avoid higher quality agricultural land . |