Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My good girl , you must be very naïve — as naïve , apparently , as my dear stepsister — if you think I 'd contemplate even for one moment sharing these very cramped quarters with you . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Her answer machine er she 's got two answer machines cos she so when the other wo she kept having a lot of trouble with it , kept breaking down and it 'd go away for three weeks and she 'd be without it |
| 4 | And they er locked us out until we 'd go back for ten and thruppence a day , so of course we did n't go back . |
| 5 | So I thought I 'd put in for that , it was a lateral move you know , but still it was getting back to my depot and nearer my home . |
| 6 | When I ran out of breath I 'd come up for another helping , then duck the head again . |
| 7 | The money deposited in England , Switzerland and other parts of Europe would remain there for many years until Samuel was free again to travel through a liberated continent . |
| 8 | The love nest he had conjured out of so little would make up for all her pain . |
| 9 | Succeeding in this would make up for previous frustration in attempts to follow Bowen . |
| 10 | A pine or oak refectory table , forming an island unit in the middle of the room , would make up for this . |
| 11 | If you had £50 , perhaps you would stay away for three months . |
| 12 | If approved , the building would stay there for two years and then could be moved to another site . |
| 13 | He would hang on for that . |
| 14 | and would hang about for two or thr I mean when I was on the dredger them men would st they would come aboard the dredger and wait there , do nothing until the boat came up the river . |
| 15 | Others — and the majority , no doubt — would wait anxiously for any news as a French invasion force was massing ready to launch itself against English shores . |
| 16 | Yes , I think whenever one makes judgment about therapy being better or worse you have to say er on what criteria and there are certainly certain criteria on which group therapy would do better for certain problems like us making feel people feel better if they had a symptom or problem which erm make them feel worse because , because they felt isolated from the community , so it means other people who have got the same problem makes you feel better erm and er certainly suggestion therapy can produce dramatic results especially in the short run . |
| 17 | The RUNNING/Nike road series would do nicely for this , taking in the Loughborough Halfmarathon in July and the Robin Good Marathon in September . |
| 18 | I would look probably for another course |
| 19 | The whole world would tune in for this one . |
| 20 | Perhaps the oak would lay there for three or four years before we used it . |
| 21 | Even those who thought that spatial perception would stand in for technical ability at age thirteen felt that the match between the specific ability and general intelligence was too close to allow it to generate a specialised educational form . |
| 22 | They were all Dreamers , and if Daine was n't brought back to Princetown , things would go badly for all Dreamers everywhere . |
| 23 | Like a true professional , Floyd was determined the show would go on for New Year 's Eve at his pub , the Maltsters Arms . |
| 24 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 25 | ‘ The feasting would go on for seven days . |
| 26 | Jacob , increasingly since he commenced going to university , might be missing for the rest of the day ; Joshua , particularly in the summer , would go out for long walks in the country , following , he said , the course of some meshuggeneh game in which young men threw an iron ball along the road and ran after it — could there be such a game ? |
| 27 | Maybe the Sergeant Major would go in for some Greek dancing , and smash all the house DJ 's records instead of plates . |
| 28 | Crump — this would provide an opportunity for a salving weep — Crump would live on for this child herself one day would bear children … |
| 29 | Further North Stockton and Middlesbrough would come in for some rough treatment at the hands of Rowland Holmes-Smith , principal of P&HS and chairman of the RIBS Teesside branch . |
| 30 | I would put in for that if it came up . |