Example sentences of "i would [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd kill for some chocolate ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd kill for some chocolate ’ |
| 3 | I thought I 'd play for thirty minutes , 'cos any more than that is kinda boring — thirty minutes of anything is enough . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd wait for that call . ’ |
| 5 | At first I would go for short walks , lasting perhaps half an hour , and then return to bed sufficiently impressed with my own daring to be able to relax into sleep . |
| 6 | Well Fred 's got my Graham Thomas because it really is a superb rose but as well as that I would go for hybrid musk and I think of all the hybrid musk , my favourite is Felicia because of that silvery pink , lovely double shaped flower and that is very very heavily scented and I would have to have the bourbon rose the th the double white creamy white bourbon rose , if , you could almost eat that , that wo n't get more than about six foot and you can prune it to keep it in shape a bit if it begins to get too straggly . |
| 7 | ( In spite of the light breeze I would pay for this indulgence . |
| 8 | I would recommend for any talk that you give that you do n't use more than two types of visual aid . |
| 9 | I would ask for some Kleenex , some razor blades and I would get to that word and I could n't do it . ’ |
| 10 | Dana was always balanced between the two , whereas I would fluctuate for long periods — a year or two in the male , a year or two in the female scale , with often sharp and distressing adjustments of behaviour and character . |