Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd sat there for hours , until nine o'clock at least , until the small garden became shadowy in the dusk . |
| 2 | Was that one of the main reasons that they started coming here for the horses ? |
| 3 | But they appeared to vanish altogether for several years to return mysteriously to look , to whistle and back chat . |
| 4 | It is little wonder , then , that they preferred to look elsewhere for employment . |
| 5 | For all the proof you need , look no further than this year 's Reading Festival and the amazing response the Neds got for some T-shirts that they had made especially for the occasion . |
| 6 | For all the proof you need , look no further than this year 's Reading Festival and the amazing response the Neds got for some T-shirts that they had made especially for the occasion . |
| 7 | General Hodge reported that the reopening of the Joint Commission was a disappointment for Rhee and the extreme right in that they had campaigned vociferously for the past year against further American-Soviet discussion . |
| 8 | They had done so for the last forty-five years . |
| 9 | They had done so for the last forty-five years |
| 10 | They had stood so for more than two hundred and forty years now , victims of the great Ko Ming purges of the 1960s , their ruin becoming , with time , a natural thing — part of the bleak and melancholy landscape that surrounded them . |
| 11 | They had stood there for thousands of years . |
| 12 | There were quite a few dunces , and er some did n't always get moved on and they did n't all make it into the top class , they had to stop again for another year , or period , in the class they were . |
| 13 | Normally , when she had visited the south of France with Jonathan , or with her friends , they had headed straight for the action . |
| 14 | Mr Fallon said a family renting a house valued at £25,000 , and entitled to the maximum price discount of 40pc because they had lived there for some years , could have a mortgage of £10,000 . |
| 15 | Seth had sent for Vicky four years earlier , when he first came to New Orleans , and they had lived together for six months . |
| 16 | They had lived together for a long time , but the sister was now reaching the conclusion that the situation could not continue much longer : |
| 17 | Angela Jones , 26 , of the same address , said she had known Michael for eight years and they had lived together for seven . |
| 18 | And they had to watch there for six weeks . |
| 19 | They had worked together for several years and the elder of them readily agreed to help supply the other 's son if he went into hiding in the woods above Eastertyre . |
| 20 | The trio felt the time was right ; they had worked together for four years , and they had a good track record — an important factor when it came to raising money for the new venture . |
| 21 | During the hours they had set aside for practising , such girls are whisked off to Neiman-Marcus , where they are instructed on the difference between Bill Blass and Geoffrey Beene with a degree of rigour reminiscent of their earliest scale-drumming days . |
| 22 | One couple lost fifty thousand pounds which they had put aside for their retirement . |
| 23 | Broadly , the survey confirmed that parents of children with special needs had not been given a real choice of placement , and that they had to fight hard for mainstream provision if this was their choice . |
| 24 | They had practised together for only an hour , yet it seemed like an eternity . |
| 25 | erm many people came to Kuwait to work for a short term and after a while they realised it 's fine so they continued to stay there for a long time , and that is the haven that we were talking about . |
| 26 | This was acquired in the early ‘ twenties by the Noyce family and they continued trading there for the next sixty years . |
| 27 | They stood clasped together for a long time , then he bent his head and kissed her , softly at first , then with such increasing passion that she could feel his heart beating like a drum . |