Example sentences of "and they [modal v] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We kept putting food on the ledge for them and they would go out for relatively short flights and then return . |
| 2 | I do n't think there 's a very great deal in the way of er lighting fittings one can talk about erm in houses in Harlow , it 's er , there 's a , a distinct difference between the light , a lot , lot of architects in , in Harlow have lived in Harlow you see and they will go in for all the very latest type of lighting fittings erm and because they have er access to the books for the various er designers of lighting fittings er , generally though , they , the majority of the people in the town er have come from er London boroughs and erm they view the same kind of lighting fittings they 've always been used to . |
| 3 | We send out details to the schools each year , and they will book to bring a party of children round for , oh it lasts about two and a half hours altogether , and they will come either for a morning or for an afternoon . |
| 4 | They may not like you , but they will respect you and they will work well for you . |
| 5 | By evening , he would be recovered , and they could go out for a jar , maybe . |
| 6 | And they 'd knock off for a bit of dinner , come back , and do the second milking . |
| 7 | And they 'd go on for many years with incredible perseverance , believing when they had no reason to believe , when it was crazy for them to believe . |
| 8 | and er , we had to set it up here and we sit here watching the telly and they 'd sit here for hours |
| 9 | ‘ She desperately wanted to play the wife role and would spend an afternoon cooking a beautiful meal for him and he would arrive with an expensive bottle of wine and they 'd settle down for a cosy evening . ’ |