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 | Billie could see their closeness when Adam let her out , saw that they cared deeply for each other . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Small farms were assigned to sons of noblemen and promising warriors , on condition they reported annually for military service . |
| 8 | They opted instead for continued UN sanctions and negotiations . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Segregative in both appearance and admission policies , they catered mostly for elderly disabled people . |
| 11 | They worked together for many years ; they would drink together on an evening . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And it left boss Graham Taylor saying : ‘ This was no fluke and they worked hard for each other . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | All one can say with any certainty is that the Pounds ( and probably the Yeatses also ) paid at least two visits to Sicily in these years , and that on at least one occasion — probably on more than one — they stayed there for some weeks , if not months . |
| 16 | They remained there for thirteen years before taking up a similar position in Liverpool . |
| 17 | Then Edouard took her into his bedroom , and they remained there for three days and three nights . |
| 18 | but they , they wo n't , they took two days off last week and they sat indoors for two days , they 've got a love , you know there fantastic couple , really fantastic , they 'll do anything for you , but it 's like Dave , Dave 's always saying take up golf , go swimming |