Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was indeed what was sought by the IS team in the first place , and was a concept to which they clung tenaciously for some time . |
| 2 | They lived together for four years , and then two years ago they broke up . |
| 3 | Happily they lived together for several weeks , until Killigrew told his young bride that duty called him to town . |
| 4 | So they lived happily for many years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Billie could see their closeness when Adam let her out , saw that they cared deeply for each other . |
| 7 | Once more , however , they provided only for small numbers and their success even in establishing this few in permanent work or independence appears to have been small . |
| 8 | Small farms were assigned to sons of noblemen and promising warriors , on condition they reported annually for military service . |
| 9 | They opted instead for continued UN sanctions and negotiations . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | and train the English lads when they came out for that kind of work |
| 12 | And they came back for another fortnight of re-building ! |
| 13 | Instead Garvey looked a jaded team and although they pressed hard for long periods , they could well have suffered a heavy defeat after a host of elementary mistakes gave Bann opportunities which should have been punished . |
| 14 | Coleridge introduced his friends to the steep woodland track leading from Porlock Weir to Culbone , and together they walked on for four miles beneath the trees , before emerging close to Broomstreet Farm and Yenworthy . |
| 15 | They walked on for several paces in silence . |
| 16 | Segregative in both appearance and admission policies , they catered mostly for elderly disabled people . |
| 17 | near Kettering , Don went to er Northampton and then finally I went to Rushden and er I 'd been there about a year and all of a sudden there was a call in for Shorteners at so I went down on the bike and er what er the one over me who , who was elderly , well was n't over me but he was er he was on my job but the senior man on it he come in , the boss had sent him in to have a look cos the er Shorteners were complaining , and er then they rang up for one of us , he said well I 'm not leaving till I 've solved this problem so I had to go . |
| 18 | Once they were married adults they settled down for longer periods . |
| 19 | They worked together for many years ; they would drink together on an evening . |
| 20 | They worked together for six months in project planning and Brown took a teaching job at the Strathclyde Business School which also allowed him to keep looking for hotel sites . |
| 21 | And it left boss Graham Taylor saying : ‘ This was no fluke and they worked hard for each other . |
| 22 | At first the mobbers showed the typical agitated response but then , when the stuffed bird failed to retaliate , they dashed in for violent physical assaults on its body . |
| 23 | They went on for three hours before she fell asleep , exhausted but more relaxed than since her husband died . |
| 24 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 25 | Alan came back most weekends , and they went out for long drives in his father 's car . |
| 26 | But it was before they went in for all the cryptonyms and digraphs and five-letter codes because that 's what computers like … ’ |
| 27 | Instead they went in for archaic exclamations such as ‘ Botheration ! ’ or made up their own : ‘ Slitherkins ! ’ |
| 28 | Well , they jogged along for some time but , as you might care to imagine , there had to come a moment when the legs had reached the top of the tree , everyone could see everything and therefore the game had finished . |
| 29 | To the extent that the evolutionists from these different camps co-operated , they did so for social reasons rather than because there were real interactions between their areas of research . |
| 30 | Rather than alight at the Gare du Nord railway terminal , they stayed on for another stop , leaving at Châtelet in the centre of the city . |