Example sentences of "would [verb] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Callers from the street were dealt with by a doorkeeper who either encouraged or discouraged them , depending on how they looked , and entered his impressions in an official diary : ‘ not quite a gentleman … — but would do well for Gold Coast ’ was a typical entry of 1899 . |
| 2 | In the morning she would beg sincerely for forgiveness , less sincerely praise Gordon as a pianist , offer to help pay to have the piano seen to . |
| 3 | If this were not so , contextual facilitation of auditory word recognition would occur only for words at the end of clauses . |
| 4 | ‘ Now , Trevor , ’ Derek Carlisle confronted his colleague , ‘ we know that the President of the World faced a demand for higher salaries from our research workers ; that unless he came up with some incentive we would lose the best of those workers ; and that the increased contribution towards marioc manufacture would compete directly for Exchequer funds . |
| 5 | An aircraft would arrive ostensibly for night circuits . |
| 6 | And there were people in this City who would pay well for things like inventories of valuable objects , plans of security arrangements and the combinations of private safes . |
| 7 | Secondly , the costs of nursing could be separated from ‘ hotel ’ costs , and the NHS would pay only for nursing . |
| 8 | So he would go instead for Mallorca in June , 14 nights half board for £239 in Alcudia , or the Hotel America in Calas de Mallorca . |
| 9 | I would go home for weekends , if I felt like it , and during the holidays . |
| 10 | The site that was identified or potentially identified by by the house builders in York was a site which both the County Council and the District Council considered performed a number of greenbelt functions , I think that it would be accepted that in any development plan land should only be allocated if there were some degree of certainty that it would come forward for development within the plan period , the site that was identified , there had been no objections made to the Southern Ryedale local plan so therefore there were no indications that it would have come forward for development within that plan period anyway , had it been identified , had it been allocated . |
| 11 | In the beginning it was agreed that any British athlete in the top four would come forward for interview . |
| 12 | These were family treats particularly enjoyed by the star-struck sisters who would sit silently for hours lost in the fantasy of the silver screen . |
| 13 | I would sit there for ages trying to figure out how it accomplished this . |
| 14 | War service of some kind would account both for Morpurgo 's disabilities and for Dysart 's generosity . |
| 15 | These became so popular that on delivery day customers would fight wildly for bags of them . |
| 16 | There is no doubt that the advent of the motor car and the provision of better roads — although in my part of the world we would argue strongly for road improvement mean that people exercise greater personal choice . |