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 this were not so , contextual facilitation of auditory word recognition would occur only for words at the end of clauses . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I would go home for weekends , if I felt like it , and during the holidays . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I would sit there for ages trying to figure out how it accomplished this . |
| 8 | These became so popular that on delivery day customers would fight wildly for bags of them . |