Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] they [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Banks , and eventually borrowers , had the advantage that the rate of interest they paid for the deposit would be slightly less than that on a conventional time deposit . |
| 3 | In mid-battle they break for a bit of a graze . |
| 4 | In fact they pay for the sort of thing they used to skive out of when they were at school . ’ |
| 5 | Unlike most animals , mussels do not expend energy searching for food They wait for the tides and currents to bring it to them . |