Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We only went for two days . |
| 32 | But we only went for half a day at that period and then for a month or so then the troops went away again , we got back into our own school . |
| 33 | We only knew for certain that there was something strange afoot when we heard the sounds of a train being marshalled and it started coming towards the hostel , what is more terrifying was that it was coming on a non-existent track ! |
| 34 | ‘ We just came for five years … ’ : writings about young life in Jamaica and adult life in England . |
| 35 | And the overall groupings which we finally evolved for this book in terms of life focus also turn out to be remarkably close to the clusters of life styles picked out in an earlier American study taking just this perspective , Robert Williams and Claudine Wirths 's Lives through the Years . |
| 36 | In the Berlin orchestra we always looked for greater knowledge and better players but maintaining standards is always going to be difficult . |
| 37 | We also looked for unpublished trials but found none . |
| 38 | We again dominated for long periods just like against ‘ Pool on Saturday but just could not score . |
| 39 | Strangely enough , we actually opened for Argent back in 1974 on one of our first big tours in America , and were promptly thrown off the tour for behaving like rude Americans … which all Americans are anyway . |
| 40 | We never asked for these technologies , and in the long run they give us fewer choices , not more . |
| 41 | ‘ We never dreamt for one moment it was the woman next door , ’ she said . |
| 42 | In my day we treated our old heroes right and they only played for 10 bob a week . |
| 43 | But after two weeks of going back and fro to the barn they finally decided for some unknown reason that they had had enough . |
| 44 | Although there has been a substantial move away from the building of three or more bedroom houses in recent years , they still accounted for 60 per cent of the total housing stock in 1986 compared with nearly three-quarters a decade earlier ( Housing and Construction Statistics 1976–1986 , Table 6.8 , 1987 ) . |
| 45 | Schiller none the less continued his research and provoked controversy by his estimate that , by the mid-1950s , though space heating sales had fallen to only a fifth of domestic sales , they still accounted for some three-fifths of the peak : significantly more than the BEA had ever publicly admitted . |
| 46 | They usually run for four to 12 weeks with one to six sessions a week . |
| 47 | They also pressed for free elections . |
| 48 | They also called for wider consultations , and a meeting between the US Department of the Interior and the Belau Olbil era Kelulau ( OEK — National Congress , consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate ) to discuss the document was scheduled for September 1990 . |
| 49 | They also called for international aid . |
| 50 | Next in was Ocean Quest on 11 December , with a time of 16 days , 10 hr , 9 min and 22 sec , but they also motored for many hours . |
| 51 | They both accounted for this outcome in terms of the rigidity of the block contracts they had been recommended to make by the regional health authority . |
| 52 | She had spent most of her own childhood trying to persuade her parents to fall in love with each other and known how little they really cared for each other or for her , but until recently she had not realised how little real love there had been in her own marriage . |
| 53 | By the 1980s , indeed , they commonly accounted for 70 per cent of the Lake Victoria catch . |
| 54 | They never campaigned for military preparedness . |
| 55 | Froissart remarked that ‘ the greatest and the grandest among them sometimes went for six days without tasting bread ’ , and Walsingham observed that ‘ a great part of his army perished of hunger and disease and almost all their horses died ’ . |
| 56 | After a spell in private practice , Vial was made equerry to Louis XVI and chef de manège of the Lyons riding academy , a post he apparently held for some years , but could not retain . |
| 57 | It only called for eight at the most . |
| 58 | He just asked for more erm , one thing that is disturbing , what he does very causally mention is what is going on all the time |
| 59 | Every night that Madame stepped up onto the stage in her dress , Boy would be watching her ; he always stayed for that . |
| 60 | He gives up a day job to write down the stories — of the Secret Mountain , the Sound that could be Seen , the Slow Children and the Magic Duvet — that he once told for free to a rabble of offspring and other kin and friends . |