Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv] for the " in BNC.

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1 This happened only for the deeper intervals and also had the effect of nearly destroying the core .
2 That augured well for the day .
3 THE number and value of management buy-outs and management buy-ins in 1992 augured well for the future of the market , according to research published yesterday , though the number of transactions increased only very slightly over the total for 1991 , writes Bill Millar .
4 All went well for the outing until at one particularly reverent moment , the young son of the party stood on his seat and inquired with a loud voice : ‘ Dad , where are all the hypocrites ? ’
5 However , all went well for the British team .
6 The watchers all waited tensely for the first word , the first greeting between the two .
7 Most returned home for the summer tasks but some left forever .
8 Most crossed just for the experience of a freedom they had been denied so long .
9 It was a permanent party , with a little gentlemanly farming on the side — interrupted , it must be said , by two World Wars when both laboured mightily for the common cause .
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