Example sentences of "[pron] they [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The discount houses will want to repay the loans from the Bank quickly , and so will reduce the price at which they bid for the next issue of Treasury Bills , thus increasing the Treasury Bill rate .
2 This was not as easy as they hoped ; they knew that , however much it might disapprove of their activities , the English government certainly had no power to get its orders obeyed on the western side of the Atlantic , but their charter , which they hoped would make them independent of England , and on which they relied for the legal basis of their community , said — like all the other charters — that they must not pass laws that were not consistent with English laws .
3 They had all the grain of which they needed for a good breakfast to finish
4 So BBC bosses have to be ultra careful about who they hire for the wholesome , long-running show .
5 They do n't set their own terms about what they expect for a good quality of life , so other people do it for them and we do a bad job of it . ’
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