Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] they [vb past] for " in BNC.

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1 And that was the poor old man he was just just about away so they sent for the ambulance and took him down to Forfar to They used to call that the poor house , I do n't know what they call it now but it was the poor house in those
2 BRITISH holidaymakers told yesterday how they fled for their lives when a killer flood surged through their campsite .
3 Of course it 's not easy to keep up the smiles in public , as the couple showed in Seoul yesterday when they arrived for a five-day Korean visit .
4 At 8.30am yesterday they departed for a one hour , speed endurance training session , completed before the temperature began its climb to 30 C.
5 The offices faced out on to the wolf enclosure and as he looked at the pack huddled by the iron fence in the snow he thought how right they looked for once .
6 Yet , when they were asked how they felt about their sister , each one of them paid tribute to her gentleness and femininity and said how much they cared for her .
7 After weeks of this game , they got bored with Mrs Sugar , since she never turned up , no matter how long they watched for her .
8 After weeks of this game , they got bored with Mrs Sugar , since she never turned up , no matter how long they watched for her .
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