Example sentences of "they have [verb] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come . |
| 2 | Then they 'd gone in for a look . |
| 3 | They 'd laid in for a siege with dozens of eggs , cans of luncheon meat , and tea . |
| 4 | They 've gone out for a walk to have a cigar but as far we 're concerned they 're not having a cigar . |
| 5 | And this is , I mean , what they 're asking , actually to be fair to them they 've put in for a thousand pound against three . |
| 6 | All through this they 've cried out for a modern definition . |
| 7 | If they 've taken off for a fire two days or something ? |
| 8 | But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’ |
| 9 | They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey . |
| 10 | and erm I used to do erm , keep a check on the flying times of the planes cos every forty hours they had to come in for a different check . |