Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six months ago he 'd have gone for it , maybe written back to some of them , seen it as a way out of the rut that his life had become … but not now . |
| 2 | what before his exam for his test ? , he 'd have gone for his medical and it was found on his |
| 3 | I know you say she 's very nice but she ca n't be all that special or you 'd have fallen for her donkeys ' years ago . |
| 4 | If she had simply gone straight to France when she had received his letter she would have fallen for it even more . |
| 5 | I would have gone for something a little snappier : ‘ A mad cow with a handbag , ’ comes to mind as a first attempt . |
| 6 | Quite possibly another administration than a British one , less morally aspiring and less legally punctilious , would have arranged for him a quiet accident , or a fatal incarceration . |
| 7 | This last appointment would have procured for him a secure income and a safe environment for life , had he remained in it . |
| 8 | Under different , ‘ unthreatening ’ conditions , these actions would have sounded the alarm , and only the most incurable apologists would have apologised for them . |
| 9 | The male working-class vote was , from the start , divided between the existing parties , and when socialist or social democratic parties appeared on the scene they seldom attained the political dominance which the solid support of the workers would have assured for them . |
| 10 | Yet if she had she would have imagined for him someone like Mrs Pascoe , someone who gave an instant impression of being a first-class housekeeper ( the house was immaculate , everything well chosen and highly polished ) and combined energetic work for her local community with a modest reticence about herself . |
| 11 | In that case her relatives would have enquired for her , raised a hue and cry at the time of the accident . ’ |
| 12 | If she had been , if she really hankered after it , she would have prayed for it long ago . |
| 13 | ‘ But I know a special place , in the campagna — in the country — where you will see vineyards and ancient castles and rolling hills , where we can drink a wine that the gods would have kept for themselves if they could . ’ |
| 14 | When I heard he was missing , I did what he would have done for me in similar circumstances . |
| 15 | To put it crudely , the experts may ( perhaps ) have done better than the widow in Boise , Idaho , would have done for herself , but still a lot worse than using a pin . |
| 16 | Had the examiner wanted such a discussion he would have asked for it in a separate part of the question . |
| 17 | I ca n't recall precisely but I , I imagine yes it would have been up , I would have asked for it to be updated at September eighty seven as well |
| 18 | Most people would have run for their lives . |
| 19 | ‘ You can imagine what a spell in the Army would have meant for someone who values his fingers as a pianist , so when I came back home I got in touch with some people and now he has been booked for a number of festivals , ’ Alan tells me . |
| 20 | I would have died for you , but you have given yourself to a worthless man . |
| 21 | ‘ I would have died for you when I married you , and now you laugh at my foolishness in marrying you ! |
| 22 | If I should cry , trying to express the inexpressible , that I had walked the wind with archangels , she would have been worried and annoyed ; and if I had gone on to say that I had forfeited those heights and lived now in an unremitting shadowless glare of exposure in a runnel of Hell , she would have feared for my mental health . |
| 23 | This outcome could not , of course , justify the suggestion that discrimination training is unnecessary for positive transfer to occur , as the control subjects would have supplied for themselves what may be the critical feature of such training . |
| 24 | It was what she would have wished for me : her sister , her friend . |
| 25 | His conduct of the crisis could be seen as a great achievement , yet something so negative and distasteful was not what he would have wished for his last service . |
| 26 | To assess the damages it is necessary to form a view upon three matters each of which is in greater or lesser degree one of speculation : ( 1 ) the value of the material benefits for his dependants which the deceased would have provided out of his earnings for each year in the future during which he would have provided for them had he not been killed : ( 2 ) the value of any material benefits which the dependants will be able to obtain in each such year from sources ( other than insurance ) which would not have been available to them had the deceased lived but which will become available to them as a result of his death : ( 3 ) the amount of the capital sum which , with prudent management , will produce annual amounts equal to the difference between ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) ( that is " the dependency " ) for each of the years during which the deceased would have provided material benefits for the dependants had he not been killed . |
| 27 | Hardly a cheese which Harry would have provided for himself . ’ |
| 28 | His gift of tears in prayer would have counted for nothing without this . |
| 29 | For example , the small cell was so amply used in the classical period that one would think a composer of originality would have looked for something different . |
| 30 | It was n't the sort of day George would have chosen for his send-off . |