Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 8.30am yesterday they departed for a one hour , speed endurance training session , completed before the temperature began its climb to 30 C. |
| 2 | Here they stood for a moment , looking round . |
| 3 | Why ca n't they plan for a longer term for those trees ? |
| 4 | ‘ They sent two of our men off — and then they played for an extra ten minutes so that they had a chance to equalise . ’ |
| 5 | A track is laid to allow the camera to move smoothly , then they go for a take . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There they stayed for a generation of misery . |
| 11 | No one in Brussels knew that the French had invaded ; instead they prepared for a duchess 's ball while a fat Prussian major paid for his roast chicken , finished his wine , then ambled slowly northwards . |
| 12 | Instead they argued for a simplicity of home life . |
| 13 | I mean either they opt for a family , or they opt for a job . |
| 14 | NINE former staff at the old Williams & Glyn 's Bradford Branch were soon talking about ‘ the good old days ’ when they met for a reunion in one of the city 's wine bars . |
| 15 | CELTIC aim to rewind the tape and produce an action replay at Parkhead tonight when they bid for a place in the third round of a European competition for the first time in nine years . |
| 16 | Oh , apart from when they ask for a ‘ tad ’ more/less bass in the drum monitors . |
| 17 | Of course it 's not easy to keep up the smiles in public , as the couple showed in Seoul yesterday when they arrived for a five-day Korean visit . |
| 18 | But the employers persuaded them to hold off until 1966 , when they settled for a mere 5 per cent rise over the three years to 1969 . |
| 19 | Is the Fire Officer given every individual case where they apply for a licence over an old people 's home , and er , this sort of thing ? |
| 20 | George and Myra 's home is in Kilbarchan from where they left for a week 's honeymoon enjoying candle lit cruises and the splendours of Amsterdam . |
| 21 | I think people wanted a change and that 's why they voted for a liberal democrat councillor . |
| 22 | Why ca nt they realise for a second that if he had been playing , maybe they would have won all 6 matches and pissed on all of the sides ? |