Example sentences of "and they [verb] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So out of that stalemate negotiations have begun and they 've gone on for three years . |
| 2 | they had beautiful clothes and they 've gone on for years like that . |
| 3 | Seth had sent for Vicky four years earlier , when he first came to New Orleans , and they had lived together for six months . |
| 4 | Angela Jones , 26 , of the same address , said she had known Michael for eight years and they had lived together for seven . |
| 5 | And they had to watch there for six weeks . |
| 6 | This was acquired in the early ‘ twenties by the Noyce family and they continued trading there for the next sixty years . |
| 7 | And they get let off for that ! |
| 8 | And they couldn't 've well for example with taxation , they could 've erm not taxed the rich peasants at all and then just put all their erm their sort of focus upon the poor peasants and got their income through them and also with land , they could 've just not given any land to poor peasants who were inefficient and given it all to the rich peasants and really gone for a capitalist state . |
| 9 | If people think that the exchange rate will fall further , importers will buy now before the rate does fall and they have to pay more for the imports . |
| 10 | They found they could switch on particular groups of atoms with a pulse of electricity and they stayed switched on for up to two days . |