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

  Next page
No Sentence
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 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 ? ’
4 However , all went well for the British team .
5 The watchers all waited tensely for the first word , the first greeting between the two .
6 Most returned home for the summer tasks but some left forever .
7 Most crossed just for the experience of a freedom they had been denied so long .
8 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 .
  Next page