Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With their eyes erect and fear in their speed they run for the safety of the waves . |
| 2 | But the more closely historians examine the seventeenth century , the more precedents they find for the innovations associated with the name of Peter the Great . |
| 3 | They had failed to change with the times , so the speeches they wrote for the Queen did her no favours . |
| 4 | The report says : ‘ Few pupils have the basic books they require for the GCSE without financial support from home . |
| 5 | Lance Gardner , who works at the Castlefields Health Centre , Runcorn , in Cheshire , says the arrangement should give nurses the recognition they deserve for the work they do . |
| 6 | The exercises are aimed at a common denominator of concerns amongst secondary school staff but their value lies , not in specific content , but in the process they demonstrate for the structuring of discussion . |
| 7 | There was a special pole they used for the purpose . |
| 8 | Beyond that , the White Paper Better Services for the Mentally III ( 1975 ) also set out rates of provision which health and local authorities ought to be aiming to achieve For ‘ oughtness ’ could be read council discretion about what priorities they had for the distribution of ‘ new moneys ’ . |
| 9 | I 'm in London I 'm in the nick I 'm in fucking Paddington Green for Christ 's sake , the high-security station they use for the Provos and they think I 'm so dangerous so much a security risk they 've got me here and even holding me under the Prevention of Terrorism Act Jesus God because some of them still are n't convinced they are n't dealing with some unholy alliance of the IRA , Welsh Nationalists and uppity jocks . |
| 10 | The service they perform for the beetles could hardly be more intimate . |
| 11 | But , apart from the sound of their own slightly laboured breathing as they toiled steadily uphill , the chattering of birds and the rustlings of small animals in the undergrowth were the only sounds they heard for the rest of the day . |
| 12 | At 3.30am the following day they left for the summit , Wanda climbing slowly by herself while Carlos , who was going well , reached the summit at 5pm . |
| 13 | Things they want for the Christmas party ? |
| 14 | The method they employed for the drop is known as HALO ( high altitude low opening ) . |
| 15 | In practical terms they call for the government to help buy and protect the Mar Lodge Estate — 77 000 acre plot of land in the Cairngorms which has been up for sale since May . |
| 16 | The bags were of that thinner kind of plastic they use for the bags that they give away at the supermarket , the free ones ; and now one of the bags in her right hand split and she just stood there helpless to stop them as three cans fell out and rolled across the concrete . |
| 17 | All that afternoon they waited for the water to come . |
| 18 | With another part they asked for the benefit of good management but without too much external pressure . |
| 19 | These data are of interest not only because of the support they provide for the cohort model , but also because of a more general point they make about cognition , namely , that we must make a clear distinction between the sequence of processing stages and the accessibility of these stages for consciousness , or for the control of responses . |
| 20 | ‘ Who 's the man they arrested for the throat-slitting ? ’ |
| 21 | They 've got a double decker they use for the school run and that is absolutely on it 's last legs by the look of it ! |
| 22 | I was just looking at some of the prices they want for the property . |
| 23 | If the unique guitar/drum intros of many of the recorded works here ( you know them all ) are proof of their creative gift , the live CD is an example of the contempt they had for the carnival going on around them . |
| 24 | The present owners of Pool Bank were previously the tenants , and during their tenancy they cared for the gallery and strengthened it , and now as owners will watch over it with loving care . |
| 25 | On the one hand they strengthened the polytechnics ' resistance to the institutional review element in the CNAA 's procedures , but on the other hand they confirmed for the CNAA the value of gaining intelligence about the overall health of the institutions . |
| 26 | Depends on on the success of their audience they got for the pantomime , not |
| 27 | Unlike most animals , mussels do not expend energy searching for food They wait for the tides and currents to bring it to them . |
| 28 | The common ancestry of the structuralists lies in the theoretical form they construe for the objects they analyse . |
| 29 | The grass , the creepers , the shrubs , the plants of every kind grew thicker every day , and the thicker they grew , the better cover they provided for the sepoys to advance undetected on the ramparts , but for some terrible reason , on the ramparts themselves nothing would grow . |
| 30 | It is not clear from the surviving reports of the Once-Over system if the manufacturers had much evidence to support the claims they made for the CO process . |