Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | and train the English lads when they came out for that kind of work |
| 4 | And they came back for another fortnight of re-building ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They walked on for several paces in silence . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Once they were married adults they settled down for longer periods . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They went on for three hours before she fell asleep , exhausted but more relaxed than since her husband died . |
| 11 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 12 | Alan came back most weekends , and they went out for long drives in his father 's car . |
| 13 | But it was before they went in for all the cryptonyms and digraphs and five-letter codes because that 's what computers like … ’ |
| 14 | Instead they went in for archaic exclamations such as ‘ Botheration ! ’ or made up their own : ‘ Slitherkins ! ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They last won the trophy in 1989 at Dagenham , when they held on for 13 memorable minutes to beat Grays 3–2 and in 1986 the Clarets beat Billericay 3–0 in a two-legged final . |