Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After weeks of this game , they got bored with Mrs Sugar , since she never turned up , no matter how long they watched for her . |
| 3 | After weeks of this game , they got bored with Mrs Sugar , since she never turned up , no matter how long they watched for her . |
| 4 | Perhaps they called for stoups of ale or goblets of Rhenish , or supped on plain fare , my masters . |
| 5 | So they looked for somewhere else . |
| 6 | So they looked for the form and they could n't find it . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | so they phoned for the doctor very quick , quick , quick |
| 9 | Together they divined for Charlie 's talent . |
| 10 | One of these had married an Indian Christian doctor , and together they worked for the sick and wounded , although badly handicapped by the lack of medicines . |
| 11 | After the overthrow of Avitus in 456 Majorian had to use force to bring the Visigoths into line , but thereafter they fought for him against the Sueves in Spain . |
| 12 | At 8.30am yesterday they departed for a one hour , speed endurance training session , completed before the temperature began its climb to 30 C. |
| 13 | Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico . |
| 14 | Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico . |
| 15 | They were very surprised , because usually they advertised for them , but they went up and asked the tailors if they wanted anyone , and then a dear old man , a er named Mr said he like a trouser finisher . |
| 16 | They wove no fancy patterns but , given the ball , straight they sped for goal . |
| 17 | Later they played for Auxerre together . |
| 18 | Well then as the unit got bigger , as I said , the room at the offices in the Lock was n't big enough so we moved from there to Alma Green Infant School , that 's the school now they used for all kinds of social activities during the day and th on that side by the car park . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Well they asked for you , and your name , and I said no you were n't in , and then said we 're looking for Joanne . |
| 21 | For them it 's the latest … possbily the last great mountain challenge … three years ago they reached the top of Mount Kilimanjaro … two years ago they made for Mont Blanc and the Alps … |
| 22 | From here they headed for Wales where they surfaced at Cardiff . |
| 23 | Here they stood for a moment , looking round . |
| 24 | Sometimes they went for two months without talking . |
| 25 | Sometimes they met for lunch or a theatre in London , on neutral ground , and both looked forward to these meetings as if they were occasions of almost illicit pleasure . |
| 26 | First she was on her own with Rose and some of the women , then they sent for the midwife , who did n't turn up , and only after that did they think to come for me . |
| 27 | Tenements were noisy and smelly , and then they left for New England . |
| 28 | Then they left for the 13-mile drive to their luxurious home at Corston , near Bath . |
| 29 | ‘ They sent two of our men off — and then they played for an extra ten minutes so that they had a chance to equalise . ’ |
| 30 | Then they came for the Communists — and we said nothing . |