Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] for the [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outdoors , he continued to carry the picture while walking bipedally , and he headed directly for the gorilla quarters which were located near the adult-ape house on a hill behind the language lab . |
| 2 | This and other theatres elsewhere were at their peak when the gentry came in for the Quarter Sessions ; for wives and marriageable daughters , there were the balls and concerts of the Assembly Rooms specially built at the back of the George Hotel . |
| 3 | That 's why Chris came in for the baby clothes . ’ |
| 4 | They pushed for the statement to be brought forward to clear the air before their sons came home for the Christmas holidays at the weekend , palace sources claimed . |
| 5 | Twenty-six teams turned up for the sporting events which included bowls , mixed netball , darts , 5-a-side football and the ever popular It's-a-Knockout and Superstars events . |
| 6 | Most returned home for the summer tasks but some left forever . |
| 7 | Passengers actually changed into their pyjamas and settled down for the night bunks or convertible seat-beds complete with sheets and blankets . |
| 8 | Once the eagles had got used to the return of Minch they settled down for the summer months . |
| 9 | And so it came to pass that when we broke up for the summer holidays in 1941 , I set off on my bike to the farmer 's new settlement . |
| 10 | And , imagine all that loose change brought in for the gambling machines bouncing high like metal sparks . |
| 11 | I went home for the summer holidays weighing seven stone six pounds . |
| 12 | WILLIAM SHAWCROSS , opposite page , never lived in Vietnam , but went there for The Sunday Times six times between 1972 and 1983 . |
| 13 | We compared the incidence in the study areas with national data using the following sources : for childhood cancer , data from the National Registry of Childhood Tumours for 1969–87 ; for young people aged 15–24 , cancer registration statistics for England and Wales for 1971–86 , though these data were not subjected to the review processes carried out for the specialist registries ; for leukaemias and lymphomas in those aged 25–74 , data from the data collection study covering about one third of the population of England and Wales . |
| 14 | New Barns School at Toddington in Gloucestershire , which caters for disturbed children , closed early for the summer holidays and police began an investigation , after the vice chairman of Governors , Peter Righton , was questioned about imported pornography . |
| 15 | Is it a domestic journal intended primarily for the church members ? |