Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [vb past] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a special pole they used for the purpose . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The method they employed for the drop is known as HALO ( high altitude low opening ) . |
| 4 | All that afternoon they waited for the water to come . |
| 5 | With another part they asked for the benefit of good management but without too much external pressure . |
| 6 | ‘ Who 's the man they arrested for the throat-slitting ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Depends on on the success of their audience they got for the pantomime , not |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was raining by the time they stopped for the night . |
| 13 | Consequently Paige 's nerves were stretched as tight as a drum by the time they stopped for the night on the banks of one of the streams they had waded through . |
| 14 | 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 . |