Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | The offices faced out on to the wolf enclosure and as he looked at the pack huddled by the iron fence in the snow he thought how right they looked for once . |
| 32 | how effectively they plead for nothing . |
| 33 | Well they asked for you , and your name , and I said no you were n't in , and then said we 're looking for Joanne . |
| 34 | Well they go for it round to the erm cemetery . |
| 35 | For them it 's the latest … possbily the last great mountain challenge … three years ago they reached the top of Mount Kilimanjaro … two years ago they made for Mont Blanc and the Alps … |
| 36 | Frequently they stay for some days . |
| 37 | From here they headed for Wales where they surfaced at Cardiff . |
| 38 | Here they stood for a moment , looking round . |
| 39 | Maybe they come for our superior quality of life . |
| 40 | Sometimes they went for two months without talking . |
| 41 | Sometimes they met for lunch or a theatre in London , on neutral ground , and both looked forward to these meetings as if they were occasions of almost illicit pleasure . |
| 42 | First she was on her own with Rose and some of the women , then they sent for the midwife , who did n't turn up , and only after that did they think to come for me . |
| 43 | Tenements were noisy and smelly , and then they left for New England . |
| 44 | Then they left for the 13-mile drive to their luxurious home at Corston , near Bath . |
| 45 | ‘ They sent two of our men off — and then they played for an extra ten minutes so that they had a chance to equalise . ’ |
| 46 | First , they practise by planting small bombs around London and keeping the police on the run , then they go for their real goal , breaking into the Tower of London and burying the treasures . |
| 47 | A track is laid to allow the camera to move smoothly , then they go for a take . |
| 48 | Then they go for a month to a , Sue 's going on a computing course for a day on the tenth of June , the date Clare goes to Brompton , Isle of Wight , so I 'll have to bring them home . |
| 49 | And then they come for him , and then , you come for him in your car |
| 50 | Then they came for the Communists — and we said nothing . |
| 51 | Then they came for the Socialists — and we said nothing . |
| 52 | Then they came for the Trades Unionists — and we said nothing . |
| 53 | And then they came for us , and there was no one left to defend us . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ First they came for the Jews , then they came for the communists , then they came for the trade unionists , then they came for me ’ , he repeats over a silky , mesmeric House groove , gradually adding a line each time , until he gets to ‘ and there was no-one left to speak up for me ’ . |
| 55 | ‘ First they came for the Jews , then they came for the communists , then they came for the trade unionists , then they came for me ’ , he repeats over a silky , mesmeric House groove , gradually adding a line each time , until he gets to ‘ and there was no-one left to speak up for me ’ . |
| 56 | ‘ First they came for the Jews , then they came for the communists , then they came for the trade unionists , then they came for me ’ , he repeats over a silky , mesmeric House groove , gradually adding a line each time , until he gets to ‘ and there was no-one left to speak up for me ’ . |
| 57 | But I mean once this strike is over , unless we come to proper agreement erm they know then that then it will be too late then cos there 's somebody saying then they came for the Jews first was it ? |
| 58 | And then they came for the Communists , I was n't a Communist so I did n't bother . |
| 59 | And if I remember they came then they came for the Trade Unionist . |
| 60 | Then they came for me and then there was nobody to bother and that was the end of it . |