Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] they [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That was a very important meeting as I gained an understanding of what they wanted for rugby to be unified . |
| 2 | A total of 898 members of the Irish National Flying Club had 3,290 young birds in Penzance for the event in which they competed for £20,600 and a video sponsored by Salisbury Laboratories . |
| 3 | When bad times came and wages were below the level on which they could support their families , the labourers found that they had to ask the authorities of the parish in which they lived for relief ; in other words they became paupers , who could be sent to the workhouse . |
| 4 | Nineteenth-century linguistics was mainly interested in the ways in which languages change across the ages ; modern ‘ structural ’ linguistics prefers , in contrast , to concentrate on the ways in which they function for purposes of communication . |
| 5 | ‘ It would be impossible to say too much in praise of consultant Ernest Sinar and his colleagues and staff at Middlesbrough General Hospital for the way in which they cared for Jo and the family during the time she was there . ’ |
| 6 | They are alarmed at the sustained physical effort of the Broomfield players and the manner in which they battle for possession . |
| 7 | Birds of prey , such as this tawny owl ( opposite , bottom ) swooping down on a mouse , are at serious risk in many parts of the world because of pesticides employed to eliminate the pests on which they rely for food . |
| 8 | But in spite of everything perhaps it was just as well that none of the things they could see … none of the plump fish or chickens being toasted on skewers , none of the creamy breads , chapatis , nan , and parathas , none of the richly bubbling curries and glistening mounds of rice , which the skeletons ' scarlet rimmed eyes could see in their lenses and at which they glared for hour after hour that none of these things were available , for in their starved and debilitated condition it was very likely that a heavy curry would have killed them as dead as a cannon ball . |