Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] their [noun pl] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and Sarah tried to arrange their dates for the same evenings , so that for the rest of the week they were free to go out together . |
| 2 | Merrill Lynch 's 1985 survey of relocation policies found that 96 per cent of the ‘ 303 Times Top 1000 companies ’ interviewed compensated their employees for the costs of living in temporary accommodation , with 78 per cent compensating for hotel and/or rented accommodation for a fixed period , generally for up to three months . |
| 3 | All creatures need sleep to replenish their energies for the next awakening . |
| 4 | Although the children at the La Mane Centre were made to use their powers for the wrong reasons , when it came to using their powers when it mattered , both Carrie and Michael used them in order to kill and destroy . |
| 5 | Some felt that they needed to compensate their children for the ‘ loss ’ of the other parent , and so should devote more time to them . |
| 6 | Are other governments , many of the countries from whom we import food , so quick to act and risk rocking their economies for the health of the British ? |
| 7 | Can I say first of all that er I support the general approach which has been adopted by Yorkshire County Council and the the other local authorities in the Greater York area , on the way in which they 've formulated their proposals for the York greenbelt after a fairly long erm and exhausting process , the question to which I want to address my comments first of all is whether the new settlement is an appropriate and justified planning response , and what I would like to do if I may is look at some of the reasons that have been raised erm in objection to the new settlement as a strategy , erm these issues have been raised by Hambledon District , York City Council , the C P R E , Montague Evans , in their written submissions to the examination of the . |
| 8 | Schools , in many cases with little preparation or warning , now had to redesign their curricula for the 11–16 age group . |
| 9 | A convenient time , with the light fading , for all the brothers who were engaged in copying or reading had abandoned their books for the evening , leaving the prior to ensure that everything was decently replaced exactly where it should be . |
| 10 | Full back Jonathan Webb and lock Wade Dooley both suggested they might be tempted to delay their farewells for the Twickenham visit of South Africa on November 7 one last chance to prove the side 's pedigree against Southern Hemisphere opponents . |
| 11 | When they reached Etaples and had pitched their tents for the night , Charlie decided that perhaps the gymnasium in Edinburgh had been luxury after all . |
| 12 | Far from trying to develop their targets for the long haul , the Milken minions broke them up for quick gain . |
| 13 | The Strathclyde Firemaster , John Jameson , said at the scene of the tragedy that the family had lost their lives for the price of a £5 smoke alarm . |
| 14 | And the scene of the burning of the books , seen on film by her many times , was as vivid as an actual memory : Hitler 's jack-booted thugs in their brown shirts , swastikas on their arms , heaving the books from the Library and heaping the heritage of the world on to a pyre , dancing and gloating as the flames consumed book after book , volume after volume : Heine , Schiller , Brecht , Thomas Mann , Einstein , Freud , Marx : history , poetry , novels , science , the works of philosophers , psychologists — men and women who had dedicated their lives for the betterment of the brutes who burned their books ; brutes living in utter ignorance , leading lives as dull and limited as the beasts of the fields , inspired only by resentment , vile prejudice , and blind hatred of what they could not understand , and , it was true , victims themselves of poverty and ignorance seeking victims in their turn — and finding them . |
| 15 | Directors are required to exercise their powers for the proper purpose , ie for the benefit of the company , and it has been held that the power of allotment is given to the directors to get capital for the company . |
| 16 | The majority of those who were working lost their jobs for the reasons already detailed above . |
| 17 | Brokers have cut their expectations for the full year from £30m to £28m , suggesting earnings of just under 15p . |
| 18 | Scotland 's European hopes , Aberdeen and Celtic , have started their preparations for the midweek matches with two of the continent 's most famous names . |
| 19 | By 6.00 am everybody had assembled to get their orders for the day . |
| 20 | Most kidneys for transplant come from those who have left their bodies for the organs to be used after death , but there were not enough . |