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 | A track is laid to allow the camera to move smoothly , then they go for a take . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There they stayed for a generation of misery . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Instead they argued for a simplicity of home life . |
| 10 | I mean either they opt for a family , or they opt for a job . |