Example sentences of "and they [vb base] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The schoolfellows had been appointed to the Racer together through the efforts of a family friend of the Rogerses , and they serve together for much of their time at sea , occasionally allotted to different ships so as to give the author freedom to range more widely in space and circumstance . |
| 2 | And they stop there for a bit , when they 've gone past the start . |
| 3 | Some are management development students , they are between twenty-eight and thirty-six years old and they stay here for fifteen weeks . |
| 4 | People who steal and murder are put in the prison-ships , and they stay there for years sometimes . |
| 5 | They bring together some twenty to twenty-five people , mostly from Third World countries , but including some aid administrators from Britain and other developed countries , and they stay together for between four and six weeks , working together in a wide range of different topics and with various objectives . |
| 6 | but I , I do n't know if you want a tape , there 's a carry film on , erm , it 's er , it 's a family and they go away for Christmas , you know , and er the little lad gets left by his self Jim |
| 7 | It is at the larva stage of their development when boring and feeding of the grubs takes place that the damage is caused because the adult beetles do not eat and they live only for a short time . |