Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] their [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Executive wrote to the four signatories and supporters who were most closely identified with the Petition campaign , Bevan , Strauss , Cdr Young , and W. Bruce , asking them to discontinue their support for the campaign or face expulsion from the Party . |
| 2 | Animal welfarists , because they are committed to promoting the good of these and other animals , seem to have an intelligible basis on which to rest their call for the preservation of natural habitat . |
| 3 | The major portion is a touring group of Eighteen Old Master Drawings from Holkham Hall , Norfolk which celebrates their saving for the nation by a consortium of museums and galleries — assisted by the National Heritage Memorial Fund — following their sale by auction in 1991 . |
| 4 | The question may have niggled at the 7,776 advertising talents who entered their work for the prestigious Design & Art Direction Awards , some of whom will turn up tonight at a glittering Grosvenor House junket to find out whether they have won one of the silver or gold pencils . |
| 5 | Of the 45 Smallholder deputies 33 ( led by Gyula Pasztor ) were expelled from the party , prompting them to call a mini-congress on Feb. 22 in Budapest , attended by nearly 4,000 supporters who reaffirmed their support for the Antall government . |
| 6 | The five Cabinet members who indicated their sympathy for the abolitionist cause by abstaining were : Cripps , Bevan , Arthur Creech Jones , Philip Noel-Baker and Harold Wilson . |
| 7 | The Wessex Regional Transfusion Centre wishes to thank those members of the staff of AEA Technology who gave their blood for the benefit of others on Tuesday , 12 and Wednesday , 13 January 1993 . |
| 8 | We need to show the people of Hungary that we are here , we need their support for the air force and the pilots . |
| 9 | The Party loved it , they gave him a standing ovation and Mr Kinnock went back for an encore to tell them to save their strength for the election . |
| 10 | ROUND the world yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnson and his crew were off the southern coast of Brazil yesterday as they maintained their challenge for the Jules Verne Trophy . |
| 11 | Many students told me that they only joined the League because it was the correct thing to do at middle school and at university they maintained their membership for the social functions the League organised , such as outings and dances . |
| 12 | Earlier this week we joined them in Hungary as they rehearsed their display for the Fairford show . |
| 13 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 14 | The families , she said , had asked her to express their gratitude for the warm and caring support from everyone there ; they were grateful , too , for the many messages of support and sympathy coming from outside Orkney . |
| 15 | The speakers have chosen their own topics , based on their own interests and enthusiasms , and it is important that they convey their zest for the subject to an audience , preferably establishing at the outset that the subject deserves the audience 's attention . |
| 16 | They knew their weapon for the future . |
| 17 | Then they did their bit for the tourism industry — by taking a break in Dorset and Hampshire . |
| 18 | Whatever enforced their absence for the last couple of years , it was n't an extensive search for a new musical direction . |