Example sentences of "would [verb] [vb pp] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not believe that the Masai , as I know them , would have applied for membership of an association of which they must be completely ignorant' . |
| 2 | Most believe he would have played for Wales but for a serious knee injury in 1975 which put him out of rugby for two years . |
| 3 | ‘ Developing countries are afraid funds for combating climate change will come out of funds that would have gone for development aid , ’ says Reddy . |
| 4 | ‘ If I 'd gone first , the house would have come to you with ten thousand and the rest would have gone for research into glandular diseases . ’ |
| 5 | If one had been asked , working on first principles , about the least eligible candidate to conduct the country 's foreign affairs , many people , including myself , would have plumped for George Brown . |
| 6 | I mentioned at the start of this address that around the fire Joseph and Mary and their children would have gathered for fun and fellowship . |
| 7 | A responsible person would have sent for Nora by now . |
| 8 | If Panin had had his way , peasants would have waited for land indefinitely . |
| 9 | In this sequence of quavers the ‘ writing factor ’ would have called for dots ! |
| 10 | She 'd hoped to be able to take him out , perhaps for a longish walk through the forest where they could hope for a glimpse of a deer , but at its heaviest the downpour would have called for wetsuits rather than waterproofs . |
| 11 | He would have fumbled for explanations . |
| 12 | Charles II found land grants very convenient ; he could give them to people who at the beginning of the century would have asked for monopolies and he could feel confident that these grants would not rouse the hostility in England that monopolies had caused . |
| 13 | He had phoned her at Milton Buildings , saying that he had a routine enquiry to make about the Datsun , would have asked for Mr Marius Steen but , owing to the recent regrettable happening , wondered if she could help . |
| 14 | The Trust regrets that after a year of negotiation it was n't possible to assemble a complete package which would have allowed for purchase price , future management and costs for the extended period necessary . |
| 15 | In short , the Church recognised in Constantine precisely what Messiahship would have entailed for Jesus and his contemporaries . |
| 16 | For that reason , I feel Meg would have opted for Anna Pavord 's scheme . |
| 17 | Presumably , if any of those Kurds who desperately clung to snowy slopes at border mountains , trapped between the armies of three states that did not recognise them , had been able to reach an aeroplane and fly to Britain , they would have qualified for asylum under the 1951 convention . |
| 18 | I would think it 's a diminishing number because I think that a large number of judges who would have voted for Mr Clement Attlee would look askance at voting for some of his successors , with all respect to them . |
| 19 | I think if I had had more time to myself when I first retired I would n't have made that mistake and would have looked for interests nearer home . |
| 20 | ‘ You would have paid for Maggie , would n't you ! ’ |
| 21 | The price of those chocolates would have paid for food for an Indian family for a whole day . |
| 22 | ‘ My father would have paid for years and years to have me become a doctor , a lawyer or an engineer . |
| 23 | He would have settled for Hilderbridge College of Technology . |
| 24 | And to be honest , after the dreadful way we finished last season , we would have settled for being fifth from bottom right now . |
| 25 | He did not eat it but put it in his pocket , where it would lie forgotten for months . |