Example sentences of "[pron] 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 . |
| 11 | His expression left Polly in no doubt that someone would pay for that mistake when he returned to England . |
| 12 | Liberal Democrat candidate Suzanne Fletcher said if her party were in power they would bring in a new type of rented housing , called partnership housing , which would cater for middle income groups wanting to rent rather than buy , built through public and private money . |
| 13 | Liberal Democrat candidate Suzanne Fletcher said if her party were in power they would bring in a new type of rented housing , called partnership housing , which would cater for middle income groups wanting to rent rather than buy , built through public and private money . |
| 14 | Proposals differ in detail , but the most usual one is to give vouchers , which would pay for basic education , to everyone . |
| 15 | During our stay we were awakened not only by the cocks , but on several occasions by piercing screams coming from the rice-paddies behind us , which would continue for some time before abruptly stopping . |
| 16 | The report recommends a new order , applicable only to patients with a history of non-compliance , which would provide for compulsory supervision of the patient in the community . |
| 17 | The government side insisted that a truce be agreed before discussions could take place on a new constitution which would provide for multiparty politics and free elections . |
| 18 | It was decided that in view of Molly 's life-long love of flowers a fund which would provide for fresh flowers for Society events and special occasions would be a suitable tribute . |
| 19 | We are a signatory to an EC agreement which Germany , France and Spain have honoured — the grants given by the EC to areas of industrial dereliction , especially mining areas like Midlothian , which would qualify for such grants . |
| 20 | This was an integrated family of large computers with related software which would allow for convenient upgrading . |
| 21 | BSL therefore stores story information and re-tells it in a way which would occur for all languages , but spoken language surface structure ( reflecting only a specific point in time and context ) would tend to hide this in its effort for reconstruction of meaning . |
| 22 | The JD Tele wins out on knobs , since the Signature 's volume control is horribly graunchy — again , not what you 'd expect for this kind of money . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been hoping you 'd agree for some time . |
| 24 | Now because score A has plus one , B has plus one er then it 's negative , negative , slight difference there on the negatives but both negatives and both pos both positive , what you 'd say for those sets of scores are that there 's probably a positive correlation between A and B and if we look at the total of each one of those multiplied together , it comes up with about plus eight . |
| 25 | ( In 1874 , whilst at her favourite residence at Osborne in the Isle of Wight , Queen Victoria made a number of trips to the post office at nearby Whippingham where she would stay for some hours comforting a dying deaf woman , Mrs. Elizabeth Tuffield , nee Groves . |
| 26 | So who would speak for old Shallot ? |
| 27 | I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his speech — I am sure that he would not have predicted that — because he attempted to deal with the question of who would pay for increased benefits by quoting a statement apparently made by the permanent secretary to the Department of Social Security , Sir Michael Partridge . |
| 28 | Enclosure might result in every acre being grabbed by private owners , who would sell for speculative building . |
| 29 | Overall , the FastLynx program offers everything you would need for simple file transfer , and is probably unique in offering three entirely different interfaces to it facilities . |
| 30 | This game is similar to games you would buy for 2–6 year olds that had Zoo animals cut out of the board with little pins on them , The child would try to fit the animal back into the right shape . |