Example sentences of "[coord] they [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The king 's son mounted his horse again , and they rode on for seven days , until they came to the islands of the Black Sea , where there is such darkness that a spoon might stand up in it . |
| 2 | And they came back for another fortnight of re-building ! |
| 3 | The so-called Main Force bombers from 5 and 6 Groups further north were usually later on the scene and were very heavily loaded with high explosives and incendiaries , and they came in for some real pastings . |
| 4 | Alan came back most weekends , and they went out for long drives in his father 's car . |
| 5 | And they make up for a curtailed visual field by being able to rotate their heads through 180° . |
| 6 | Howard meets Phil Schaffer in various pubs , down there in the sea of lights — Phil knows the city intimately already — and they walk round for hours , talking and yawning and doing joky things . |
| 7 | It was raining and there was this walkie-talkie twisting around my head , there was police hats rolling in the road , and they radioed in for assistance . |
| 8 | Once round the loch and they headed back for their car , muttering that we were wasting our time because there was not a single fish in the loch . |
| 9 | But they set out for the Town Hall none the less . |
| 10 | In fact , these advisory councils neither have the strength conferred by expert knowledge , nor the experience of full-time work in the field , nor the responsibility conferred by direct election , but they cover up for the assumed need for some outside , popular supervision of these administrative agencies . |
| 11 | Leicester wobbled , but they hung on for the record equalling win . |
| 12 | None of the group is especially common as fossils , but they make up for their general rarity by their interest . |