Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control . |
| 2 | Everyone made it back to the rendezvous where they laid up for the day , returning in the evening to pick up the SBS group which had managed to deal with the radio station . |
| 3 | They cared little for the landscape in which they worked . |
| 4 | Considering themselves to be superior , they cared little for the ordinary person and looked down on the sinners . |
| 5 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
| 6 | Because they provided explicitly for the sampling of a wide range of speaker types and speech styles , the data collection methods associated with Labov 's model allowed data to be analysed on all of these dimensions . |
| 7 | Braving storms and great creatures of the deep including the whale shark , they sailed hopefully for the most romantic of destinations , a coral island , and succeeded . |
| 8 | They came partly for the singing , the people . |
| 9 | Donal Lunny came down , and Gerry O'Beirne and Mary Custy and Eoin O'Neill , my sister Mary , and Adam Calyton , Mike Scott and Steve Wickham had been over in Spiddal at the time , working with John , so they came over for the crack . |
| 10 | They holed up for the next two days in Leatherslade Farm House … at Oakley twenty seven miles away . |
| 11 | There was no happy return to the Hippy days when they teamed up for the Sixties hit I Got You Babe . |
| 12 | Finally in despair they turned back for the fleet , but on approaching this , the ships all scattered under the impression that an enemy torpedo raid was coming in . |
| 13 | There , instead of going straight on towards Alice 's farm , they turned left for The Tiger 's Head , an old pub which stood off the road behind a dusty forecourt . |
| 14 | To all of them , Fry is Barnet , and without him there , few will have good reason to stay at Underhill , particularly as they alleged publicly for the first time yesterday that chairman Stan Flashman had physically threatened them . |
| 15 | Leicester wobbled , but they hung on for the record equalling win . |
| 16 | It was then that they scooped out for the storage of goods the extensive vaults and cellaring that still run beneath the old town today . |
| 17 | They signed up for the same courses and joined the same societies ; they sat together in seminars and went together to the National Film Theatre ; they had sex together and moved together into a one-roomed flat in their second year . |
| 18 | They talked on for the best part of an hour , ending in agreement that there was no solution to this problem , short of the mass emigration of millions . |
| 19 | Once the eagles had got used to the return of Minch they settled down for the summer months . |
| 20 | Feeling depressed they worked away for the rest of the night . |
| 21 | They worked steadily for the rest of the morning on the management medicals , Rachel and Nina checking weight , testing urine for any signs of sugar diabetes , taking blood samples to test haemoglobin , thyroid function , liver function and cholesterol levels and checking blood-pressure for hypertension . |
| 22 | They called instead for the assumption of power by the NLD , which had won a landslide electoral victory in May 1990 but not been allowed to take office [ see pp. 37457-58 ] . |
| 23 | Determined to shoot one with a really fine head , I decided to spend a night near the mountain-top so that I could hunt for them in the early morning before they lay up for the day . |
| 24 | It might be needed if they went out for the day . |
| 25 | And then they sent back for the you know the , the ones that had been there before . |
| 26 | They looked around for the Indians who 'd helped them set up but they were n't there . |
| 27 | probably part of the reason why they did n't for the time being |
| 28 | An hour later the village bobby was let into the house by Mr Lawson , and shortly afterwards they emerged together for the Chancellor to give the message the world 's money markets had been waiting for . |
| 29 | Suddenly she felt a glowing warmth deep inside ; he could never betray her , could never sell what they had together for the cheap thrill of recounting an old , sordid story . |
| 30 | Members held raffles and donated cash until they had enough for the Olympic bar . |