Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A million nature lovers all over the country are being asked to show how much they care for the countryside in an innovative challenge from the RSPB . |
| 2 | When people first come in they go for the raised areas and sit down . |
| 3 | So they looked for the form and they could n't find it . |
| 4 | And that was the poor old man he was just just about away so they sent for the ambulance and took him down to Forfar to They used to call that the poor house , I do n't know what they call it now but it was the poor house in those |
| 5 | so they phoned for the doctor very quick , quick , quick |
| 6 | One of these had married an Indian Christian doctor , and together they worked for the sick and wounded , although badly handicapped by the lack of medicines . |
| 7 | At 8.30am yesterday they departed for a one hour , speed endurance training session , completed before the temperature began its climb to 30 C. |
| 8 | Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico . |
| 9 | Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico . |
| 10 | Here they stood for a moment , looking round . |
| 11 | Why ca n't they plan for a longer term for those trees ? |
| 12 | Why did n't they wait for the passengers to get off first , instead of squeezing themselves , their sacks of wheat and bicycles on at the same time that others were dragging their possessions off ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Then they left for the 13-mile drive to their luxurious home at Corston , near Bath . |
| 15 | ‘ They sent two of our men off — and then they played for an extra ten minutes so that they had a chance to equalise . ’ |
| 16 | A track is laid to allow the camera to move smoothly , then they go for a take . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Then they came for the Communists — and we said nothing . |
| 19 | Then they came for the Socialists — and we said nothing . |
| 20 | Then they came for the Trades Unionists — and we said nothing . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | And then they came for the Communists , I was n't a Communist so I did n't bother . |
| 25 | And if I remember they came then they came for the Trade Unionist . |
| 26 | and she helped him , cos he was n't well and they , then they send for an ambulance and at the the man , he was n't really well |
| 27 | The party machines were crooked , but at least they provided for the to-and-fro of political patronage in ways that left the mayor , as chief executive , relatively free to run the city . |
| 28 | They 'd never amount to a fortune — not at a penny a hundred points — but at least they paid for a few packets of cigarettes . |
| 29 | There they stood for a long time by a low stone wall , staring hopelessly out at the yellow fields of stubble , where the wheatsheaves were stooked and ready for gathering into the barn . |
| 30 | There they stayed for a generation of misery . |