Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [vb past] for [adj] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | I am just appalled that it 's so easy , obviously , to get into these er accounts and and the health records as well , er I mean there really bright here , Mr has no criminal record , I do n't know where they went for that , it 's true , it 's nice to have it er made public but er where did they go to get that information ? |
2 | Once the children were fully fit , the family went on to Paris , where they stayed for two months . |
3 | Once in South Africa , they went to Johannesburg where they stayed for twenty weeks before going on to Durban , Port Elizabeth , Cape Town and Kimberley . |
4 | During the ‘ Killing Times ’ of the 1880s , when the Covenanters were being hunted down and killed mercilessly , the father fled with his family to Ireland , where they stayed for several years , probably until after James II and VII was deposed in 1688 . |
5 | ‘ I think that they got a bit carried away , ’ she laughs , ‘ I 'm not sure why they went for that word exactly . |
6 | They will be worse for frail , elderly people , for physically and mentally disabled people , and I think people will also be asking the Tory and Liberal Democrat groups why they went for half a million pounds less than they need have done in service provision . |