Example sentences of "and they would [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 | And they 'd knock off for a bit of dinner , come back , and do the second milking . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | and er , we had to set it up here and we sit here watching the telly and they 'd sit here for hours |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |