to run for torches

[Anonymous]

Dear teacher,

The English story I am reading tells about the men who tried to keep out /prevent a huge and maned wolf escaping into the town from a garden fenced securely. The author wrote a sentence like as:

We run for torches and for an hour Charles, Appolonio and I searched the garden.

Does the above sentence have the same meaning with the following one?
It took them a hour to fetch torches and after that the three of them started to search the wolf.

Thanks a lot

[Pete]

Dear teacher,

The English story I am reading tells about the men who tried to keep out /prevent a huge and maned wolf escaping into the town from a garden fenced securely. The author wrote a sentence like as:

We ran for torches and for an hour Charles, Appolonio and I searched the garden.

Does the above sentence have the same meaning with the following one?
It took them a hour to fetch torches and after that the three of them started to search the wolf.

Thanks a lot
(To make the tenses consistent, I changed "run" to "ran" in your quote.)

-- That's not quite what it means. It means something more like,
- They went to get torches (presumably it took little time to get them), and then they started searching and continued to search for an hour.