Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not even a highly-publicised- and subsequently denied-exchange between her and jealous rival Wendy James of the band Transvision Vamp — Wendy : ‘ I do n't know how they vote for that Aussie Bimbo , she sounds like my dog . ’ |
| 2 | I think there 's a more serious thing that we have n't actually touched on which is that many people feel that they are discriminated against when they go for certain posts |
| 3 | Once the children were fully fit , the family went on to Paris , where they stayed for two months . |
| 4 | Once in South Africa , they went to Johannesburg where they stayed for twenty weeks before going on to Durban , Port Elizabeth , Cape Town and Kimberley . |
| 5 | During the ‘ Killing Times ’ of the 1880s , when the Covenanters were being hunted down and killed mercilessly , the father fled with his family to Ireland , where they stayed for several years , probably until after James II and VII was deposed in 1688 . |
| 6 | ‘ I think that they got a bit carried away , ’ she laughs , ‘ I 'm not sure why they went for that word exactly . |