Example sentences of "[pron] would [vb infin] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd stand for hours in front of the mirror , painting my face and fingernails and backcombing and lacquering from a sticky , plastic squeeze bottle until my hair resembled a busby . |
| 2 | Then I 'd disappear for days and make everyone go crazy with worry while I whooped it up down the nearest alley with some ear-tom tom . |
| 3 | It 's the kind of environment I would want for visitors to London . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I would go for parts and they would still have this idea that Chrissie was very much in the series . |
| 5 | Right well I let's I I I would go for schools if I were you . |
| 6 | I was especially fond of my maternal grandparents ' dog , Luath , an exquisitely patient collie with whom I would sit for hours , pretending or half-pretending that we could read one another 's thoughts . |
| 7 | I would lie for hours in my sea grey with the remains of bubble bath . |
| 8 | I also wore my own garments with pride and let it be known that I would knit for others if they wished . |
| 9 | The second cousins have just issued their first newsletter and they have grand plans to open an information centre in Liverpool , which would cater for enthusiasts all over Europe . |
| 10 | It was not a fortune , but it was a respectable competence , thanks to royalties , which would continue for years yet , whether the doctor reappeared or remained in limbo . |
| 11 | The peace plan , which would allow for republics to declare independence , had been amended to allow for republics to form a common state , the economy of which could be organized on non-market lines ; the article granting autonomy to the ( currently Serbian-controlled ) provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina was deleted . |
| 12 | Sometimes she would disappear for days . |
| 13 | She would lie for hours — days even , for she had lost all interest in time — in an abstraction of pain , her bruised mind slipping and struggling and relapsing into a slough . |
| 14 | He continued to see Jennifer on a regular basis and over the years ; she would come for holidays and weekends , and he did the loving-father duties , which he treated seriously , and never shirked his responsibilities . |
| 15 | I see And , and who would , who would pay for theses courses ? |
| 16 | But he was not a person who would ferret for secrets . |
| 17 | I thought you would sleep for hours . ’ |
| 18 | And we would go for walks together or just sit in the garden , talking . |
| 19 | Lunch was now on its way , he added , and he hoped everyone would return for drinks at five-thirty when there would be Interesting Developments as per their printed programmes . |
| 20 | And sometimes if there was just a few of the men maybe two men in the camp , they would come and help with even fencing or or erm build up a dyke or something like that Even drain they would stay for days if they wanted draining the fields , mm it was that . |
| 21 | This was eventually done , and in April 1991 I contacted them again and they agreed that if I , through Spokes , could organise the workforce , they would pay for materials and the hire of equipment . |
| 22 | They would go for weekends to comfortable but not flashy hotels , show her places he knew . |
| 23 | They would go for walks in the area . |
| 24 | They would lie for hours , hardly moving , before a sudden noise startled them and they instinctively dived for cover . |
| 25 | Cambodia 's Prime Minister , Hun San backed by the Soviet Union , said he 'd settle for elections if the U N organised them , which left just the Khmer Rouge blocking every avenue for peace . |
| 26 | He 'd go for months and then have six in a row . |
| 27 | You could never tell whose idea was what , because they talked everything to death , but if nothing else , DeFries was a wonderful sounding board as he would talk for hours and hours and hours about every little detail of the show , the order of the set , the music , the albums . |
| 28 | He virtually commuted between London and Sydney , his Australian birthplace , where he would stay for months at a time with his parents , making award-winning films , before returning to London in his safari suit , sun-bleached and fit . |
| 29 | He would sit for hours , quite silent , watching the assembling of minute coils and springs ; he seemed to find the exactitude satisfying . |
| 30 | He would sit for hours with his blindfold down , taking no part in the general conversations , or at best looking at Brian and me , shaking his head when his compatriots said something with which he disagreed . |