Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should like to know for certain how … |
| 2 | Cos we will I 'll come dressed for dirty work tomorrow |
| 3 | Our quarry secured a table in the far corner and , as soon as I glimpsed him , I could have laughed for sheer joy . |
| 4 | The Easy-Carve is in fact not as noisy as one might imagine , but it is not necessarily a tool I 'd want to use for long stretches . |
| 5 | ‘ If I were Newley , I 'd want to know for certain , even if I intended to go through with the deal . ’ |
| 6 | Just — different , because you 'd be tied up elsewhere , and I would have to look for other friends . |
| 7 | I would have sighed for human nature , had it not been for the excellence of my trout and the wine which accompanied it . |
| 8 | An early marriage and five children would have tempered most women 's ambitions and had Emecheta 's marriage been happy , she might have settled for domestic life . |
| 9 | In other ways it was really petty and you could get nicked for daft little things . |
| 10 | Even if , as one study asserts , the USSR pays 50 per cent more for CMEA products than these products command in world markets , the question which matters to the Soviet Union is what she would have to pay for equivalent Western equipment ( and how she would pay for it ) . |
| 11 | Nothing near as tasty and tender as our … ’ and , her mouth overflowing with steak , beans and croquette potato , Mitzi named an Austrian breed Elisabeth had never heard of ( and did not imagine she would need to remember for future use ) . |
| 12 | If you keep soft water fish you would need to test for general hardness . |
| 13 | Sorry , twenty four percent , twenty four percent body weight erm about a quarter in other words when , when a young woman 's body is about one quarter fat , she can start menstruating for obvious reasons . |
| 14 | You can get sacked for fucking |
| 15 | We have already closed sites which have become yesterday 's plants serving yesterday 's needs and we 'll keep looking for other areas of adjustment . |
| 16 | They will recognise it too in terms of higher charges than perhaps ideally we would want to impose for certain services which the city operates , whether it be sports pitches or whether to be brutal , it 's the cost of actually burying the dead . |
| 17 | We will continue to look for joint initiatives from which AC groups can also derive financial benefit and will keep you informed as they happen . |
| 18 | Additionally , we will continue to look for suitable opportunities to work with appropriate companies to expand and improve our business through partnership or acquisition . |
| 19 | We will have to arrange for advance publicity , set up an office and make arrangements to show prospective buyers around . |
| 20 | Eventually , we will have to look for different fuels , according to Larry Jenney , of the US Transportation Research Board , in Washington DC , but fuel efficiency is an essential first step . |
| 21 | They must have longed for quiet and solitude , for space to shed their tears in private , or even to vent their anger , but none of them showed it in public . |
| 22 | This would build up a fund from which they could afford to bid for new discoveries at fair market prices . |
| 23 | Even if someone wanted to have their dog put down they could have applied for financial help . ’ |
| 24 | If they were here , 1 am sure that they would support new clause S. The reason that they are not here is because they feel that they would have to vote for new clause 5 if they were here , so they have absented themselves from the debate . |
| 25 | Given that they would have to look for other offices , the partners decided to take the opportunity to merge the three Isle of Wight offices and reap the benefits of the resulting economies of scale . |
| 26 | She says that they all thought they would have to look for other jobs . |
| 27 | Had they seen billions of neutrons as well as the heat then they would have known for sure that fusion was occurring ; and may already have begun to worry about their health from prolonged exposure . |
| 28 | Will he undertake that when he and my right hon. Friend the Minister go to Brussels next week for that crucial meeting , they will continue to fight for British agriculture as a whole and not bend over backwards to please MacSharry , as the Opposition would do ? |
| 29 | He may have asked for Norman help against his enemies in 1009 , and a continental source records that he at some point appealed to the French monarch Robert the Pious for assistance , conceivably in the hope that he could exert pressure on the Normans . |
| 30 | If the patient has problems with his employer , he may need to apply for professional help through his social worker . |