Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The TV detection team did n't fall for it , any more than they did for the man who claimed his set was never used . |
| 2 | ‘ Well over one third of those questioned in our survey said that they waited for the sales to make major purchases . |
| 3 | With regard to indirect discrimination , the EOC conducted a postal survey of all the applicants to the Society in one year to establish whether or not each candidate could have complied with the mobility requirement at the time that they applied for the job . |
| 4 | This all reflects the important part that political organizations played in the Edwardian era , for when politicians needed means of communication and organization in a time of crisis it was to the parties rather than to the state that they turned for the machinery and the expertise ; it was not to be the same in 1939 , with consequent effects on the state of the local parties by 1945 . |
| 5 | But before doing so , he contacted the solicitors who represented him in 1981 and they arranged for the crown court appearance . |
| 6 | He jumped out of the cart , lifted Arkhina down , and they ran for the stairway . |
| 7 | IB4E paid the money and they waited for the train to take them to Ratvick . |
| 8 | The people loved the play , they loved Burbage as Hamlet , they cried for poor Ophelia 's death , and they shouted for the murderer Claudius to die . |
| 9 | Newspapers were quietly folded and they headed for the hills . |
| 10 | But Dalgliesh knew that Massingham still half-regretted the days when women police officers were content to find lost children , search female prisoners , reform prostitutes , comfort the bereaved and , if they hankered for the excitement of criminal investigation , were suitably occupied coping with the peccadilloes of juvenile delinquents . |
| 11 | Neither the Conservatives nor Labour , therefore , had a chance of retaining or obtaining office unless they abandoned for the time being the principal position which they fought the election to obtain . |
| 12 | But they had for the winter time they their houses to go to . |
| 13 | The expansion of Brighton provided a number of new churches but they depended for the clergy 's livelihood on rented pews and the poor were virtually excluded . |
| 14 | The Quaker mine-owners could hardly avoid the site 's exposure to the ravages of moorland weather , but they provided for the welfare of their employees , with sick pay and adult education schemes that became models for other employers . |
| 15 | Many mothers were upset because they feared for the safety of their children — and because , for numerous women , control over young people had been one of the few ways to exercise power in society . |
| 16 | They went into the staff-room and grabbed a coffee while they waited for the results , then they studied them together on the lightbox . |
| 17 | This is precisely what Robson , Jennings , and Willis were advocating since they argued for the rationalization of our haphazard arrangements for tribunals with an appellate jurisdiction vested in an administrative appeal tribunal which would be separate from the High Court . |
| 18 | And , having no idea how important this or that person was , whether they worked for the BBC or the TLS or the BFI , he treated them all with equal condescension . |
| 19 | It was argued that it unfairly penalized those who worked throughout their lives until their mid-sixties , but were thrown onto the Poor Law before they qualified for the pension . |
| 20 | The Wallabies knew there was high interest in Australia when they prepared for the semi-final and final matches . |
| 21 | In addition , since the CAB did not succeed when they pressed for the extension of legal aid to cover representation at industrial tribunals , there simply is no other organisation able to take on this work . |
| 22 | Alternatively , he could always have chatted up one of the drivers of Middleton & Co. 's waggon , asking if there was a bit of spare room for an extra body when they left for the King 's Arms in Holborn on a Sunday evening or a Monday morning . |
| 23 | The Letter of 1027 reports that he visited Rome to pray for the redemption of his sins and the security of his subjects , and tells how he had negotiated with the pope a reduction in the sums paid by English archbishops when they went for the pallium . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't think they , or the likes of Norman Mailer and Budd Schulberg ever felt that they were slumming when they wrote for the sports pages , ’ says McIlvanney . |
| 25 | Nigel , 34 , and his girl-friend Brix Smith both created a stir when they arrived for the ceremony . |
| 26 | He and a friend had been on a cycling tour of the Himalayas , when they paid for the papers from a local travel agent . |
| 27 | There had been a highly amusing interlude , when they called for the photographs . |
| 28 | The mystical writings of the fifth century author who had adopted the pseudonym Dionysius the Areopagite were quite well known in Europe , even though they never had the same appeal for Europeans as they had for the Greeks . |
| 29 | The audience waved , swayed and sang along enthusiastically , as they had for the procession of artists who had preceded him . |
| 30 | ‘ YOU really went over the top today , Charlie , ’ grinned the Captain to the Old Stager as they reassembled for the match . |