Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [adv] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was an Englishman , she said , an associate of her father , who 'd come across for years on whatever business it was he did . |
| 2 | and er , we had to set it up here and we sit here watching the telly and they 'd sit here for hours |
| 3 | If they did lose sight of the coast , they would watch out for birds and clouds because they knew that birds flew near land and that clouds formed over land . |
| 4 | If this were not so , contextual facilitation of auditory word recognition would occur only for words at the end of clauses . |
| 5 | He would take off for days and no one would see him . |
| 6 | A headache would drag on for days . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ A typical Robson team-talk would go on for hours — no wonder the Ipswich lads in the squad had nicknamed him Mogadon . |
| 9 | She needed strength : her and Bernard 's nightly love play would go on for hours , limbs lurching and surging in some kind of gladiatorial combat as if the one who weakened first lost . |
| 10 | They also provided the food and baking would go on for days beforehand . |
| 11 | I would go home for weekends , if I felt like it , and during the holidays . |
| 12 | When I first moved here I would wander around for days , not knowing where my home was . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I would sit there for ages trying to figure out how it accomplished this . |
| 15 | These became so popular that on delivery day customers would fight wildly for bags of them . |