Example sentences of "[verb] for their " in BNC.
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1 | SEEDY : Rumpled bed and empty bottles in the borrowed Fulham flat where Mellor and Antonia met for their steamy love sessions |
2 | They appeared to apologize for their pitiable weaknesses , instead of forming themselves into a counter attack . |
3 | People want to be able to borrow for their homes or businesses in a currency where the interest rate is not exorbitant . |
4 | It is unlikely , but some creditors may yet have to sue for their money . |
5 | 5.5 Title to the goods comprised in each consignment shall not pass to the Purchaser until the Purchaser has paid their price to the Seller , but , even though title has not passed , the Seller shall be entitled to sue for their price once its payment has become due . |
6 | The Great War and those more recent conflicts were put together and ‘ paid-for ’ on behalf of politicians who could not make up their minds or bring the problems to the debating-table ; who preferred the shouting and smearing , the innuendo and hate for their opponents ' parties , to the welfare and the good of their people . |
7 | Even if other painters had to wait for their money , Zbo tried desperately hard to make sure that Modi did not go without . |
8 | To wait for their enemy , the ordinary people of Famagusta had made their way to the heart of the city , where the Cathedral soared like a vast triangled reliquary , flanked by princely buildings and faced , across the piazza , by the handsome , doorless shell of the Palace . |
9 | They demand more resources for the school in their areas : they complain vociferously if they have to wait for their operations ; they demand that the state intervene to subsidise the price of the rail tickets from their commuter homes to their work . |
10 | They were closely followed by the children who settled down to wait for their treasure trove . |
11 | At home , where an admiral 's powers were much more restricted , and even the most favoured officers could expect to have to wait for their promotion until the end of the admiral 's period of command , when it was customary to make him the compliment of a few promotions on striking his flag , it was still possible to introduce new entrants to a seagoing life . |
12 | They usually had to wait for their father to come home to decipher Davide 's news aloud to them . ) |
13 | With less reliable means of reaching the station , with perhaps less requirement for haste , and less opportunity to understand the timetables or gauge time by any other means than the sun , these passengers used all the patience of the peasant to wait for their appropriate train . |
14 | There was a row of five chairs where people sat to wait for their turn . |
15 | Accepting shareholders will have to wait for their cash for that period . |
16 | ‘ We now have to wait for their report . ’ |
17 | ‘ We now have to wait for their report . ’ |
18 | TWO Liverpool cousins who have become the first prison visitors awarded damages after a search ordeal will have to wait for their cash , following a Home Office decision to appeal against the award . |
19 | But they are ideally cast as Captain von Trapp and Max Detweiler respectively , and their imposing stage personalities more than compensate for their limitations as singers . |
20 | Such theories have been plausibly criticized for their romantic and Utopian strains , also for the way they echo and sometimes invoke a post-Freudian version of the polymorphous perverse . |
21 | The BMA were criticized for their intransigence and the pharmaceutical industry 's advertising was criticized for seeking to frighten patients . |
22 | A graduate of Leland , Stanford and Oxford universities , he was a sharp , intelligent man from Detroit , Michigan , who has all too often been dismissed as the maker of low-budget movies which exploited a particular mood or event in time , heavily criticized for their voyeurism . |
23 | As before , the problems of interpreting outcomes outweigh the difficulties of assessment and some of the criteria used in research have been criticized for their cultural and class bias . |
24 | Of these , the latter two were especially criticized for their poor records of arrest and/or inactivity ; records perhaps best viewed in the light of the legislation they sought to enforce , the complexity of the offences they where obliged to detect , and last , but by no means least , the limited resources , in terms of finance , manpower , and expertise , made available to them . |
25 | Periodically revised and completed , these ‘ rules and regulations ’ bore the imprint of the administrative tradition that had hitherto governed broadcasting , and were criticized for their formalism — and insufficient recognition of the realities of broadcasting . |
26 | ( Cash more and Troyna , the editors of the volume in which Rex 's paper appeared , were widely criticized for their own collapse into a cultural essentialism which accused ‘ black youth ’ of being ‘ arrogant , rumbustious and contemptuous ’ and having ‘ a certain fascination for violence ’ ( 1982 , pp. 18 , 33 ) . ) |
27 | But the London and North-Western and the Great Western Railway companies were criticized for their poor provision of workmen 's trains in 1892 and a parliamentary select committee was still pressing for the provision of cheap trains for workers in 1905 . |
28 | This shortcoming can be explained in part by the alleged deficiencies of the respective approaches ( social administrators have been criticized for their less than rigorous historical investigations ( Thane , 1992 ) whilst historians have been taken to task for their reluctance to engage in broad theoretical debate ) . |
29 | We will be competing for their business with already existing companies there which offer complete financial services . |
30 | The females evolve to be larger and brighter coloured than the males , and control harems of dull-coloured egg-sitters , competing for their domestic skills against other acquisitive and territorial females . |