Example sentences of "would go [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Like a true professional , Floyd was determined the show would go on for New Year 's Eve at his pub , the Maltsters Arms . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ The feasting would go on for seven days . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Maybe the Sergeant Major would go in for some Greek dancing , and smash all the house DJ 's records instead of plates . |