Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He launched his poems of silk down the Yellow River ; and he never knew that his silken ships would sail on for ever . |
| 2 | Some would take up for ever more space than they were entitled to — like my mother 's wedding dress , shrouded in sheet linen , suspended in time , uncrushed by the other more workaday but less significant garments that crowded together as though they were cold , waiting in a queue , inmates of a zenana to be taken up or not at the Pasha 's pleasure , promiscuously gathered , at the mercy of their owner . |
| 3 | The door was solid and would hold up for quite a long time . |
| 4 | And this is the other aspect of Freud 's debt to Darwin which I mentioned at the beginning but said I would hold over for later . |
| 5 | We kept putting food on the ledge for them and they would go out for relatively short flights and then return . |
| 6 | Now I 've done removals before then , not so much now , but I at one time used to be out on the road doing removals myself very often and I would get in for about seven o'clock in the evening get a quick grab something to eat , rush round this place , put the fires on and get it ready . |
| 7 | Bob Monkhouse — already established as a leading comedy writer and just moving into performing — playing the poor wretch called up on his wedding day and Shirley Eaton as the NAAFI girl who would come back for just one more ‘ Carry On ’ . |