Example sentences of "[vb past] their [noun] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan tried to lure Beardsley back to his native North East earlier this season , but Kendall spurned their attempt for the player he holds up as an example to all professionals . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In ex-army gear I would n't be seen , as long as I kept still , sitting on my hands , pale face buried in a heather clump , but those long heads that rose between rasping bites of coarse grass had twitching noses that never stopped their search for the enemy — a very efficient sort of olfactory radar . |
| 4 | On April 2 an estimated 50,000 people demonstrated their support for the democracy movement in Kathmandu , while doctors and other professionals joined a general strike , in defiance of legislation prohibiting strikes in " essential services " . |
| 5 | Youngsters aged between 14 and 18 made their bids for the title of Cleveland 's Young Consumer of the Year at Middlesbrough town hall last night . |
| 6 | But while Scotland 's men were toiling , the women got their challenge for the Home International championship off on a winning note . |
| 7 | The Expenditure Committee returned to this field in 1978 , and reiterated their recommendations for the appointment of planning assessors and for a review of the planning system . |
| 8 | Clerical staff at Oxford Polytechnic vacated their desks for the picket line . |
| 9 | Right so twelve three er just to report that Channel Four have actually er renewed their sponsorship for the film festival yet again . |
| 10 | The Security Council debate had been preceded by a series of statements by and an exchange of letters between de Klerk and Mandela in which each stated their terms for the resumption of constitutional talks . |
| 11 | On Aug. 23 seven of the 12 political organizations which had initially supported Pascal-Trouillot 's appointment declared their support for the Council of State and demanded the postponement of the elections until such time as the safety of voters could be guaranteed . |
| 12 | In the following two years French governments repeatedly reaffirmed their support for the EDC , but did not submit the treaty for ratification . |
| 13 | In a statement afterwards , the BBC said it had ‘ apologised to Mr Wright and his family and expressed their regret for the damage and distress caused ’ . |
| 14 | All the main parties except the communist Party of the Left and the Greens expressed their support for the move . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Webbs , in particular , placed their faith for the future in the efficient re-engineering of society by ‘ unassuming experts ’ . |
| 17 | While directors like Ken Russell and Nic Roeg carried on along their own idiosyncratic paths , and many of the directors who had flourished in the 1960s packed their bags for the trip to LA , there were no indications that those left behind had begun to face up to the economic realities of British film production , or what would have to be done to patch up the damage done to the craft of filmmaking , more particularly screenwriting , during the dead times of the 1950s and into the 1960s . |
| 18 | Opposition parties repeated their call for the election of a national constituent assembly to draw up a new constitution . |
| 19 | On the same day a ceremony was held in Berlin at which the three Western generals at the Allied Kommandatura ( the Soviet union having withdrawn from the four-power control commission in 1948 ) relinquished their responsibility for the city , while the four powers held a joint ceremony at the Glienecke Bridge between East and West Berlin . |
| 20 | They then reached their target for the loss of three wickets . |
| 21 | Chris Waddle 's club , who this week took their spending for the season so far to £14 million by signing the Nantes player Didier Deschamps , have signed agreements with four players which give them priority should they wish to sign any of them . |
| 22 | The NATO leaders stressed their support for the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) — which grouped east and west European countries , the USA and Canada — and urged that the CSCE 's role be enhanced and expanded . |
| 23 | Both parties stressed their desire for the restoration of full Lebanese sovereignty and for the withdrawal from Lebanon of Israeli forces , as demanded in UN Security Council Resolution 425 . |
| 24 | They knew their weapon for the future . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In fluent French at a meeting in Paris , the Prince supported their fight for the country 's traditional way of life — a campaign which has included burning the Union Jack and attacking lorryloads of British meat . |
| 27 | Then they did their bit for the tourism industry — by taking a break in Dorset and Hampshire . |
| 28 | ‘ We told the family how bad he was and won their permission for the vet to do the kind thing . ’ |
| 29 | The team had a get-together in an Armagh hotel following their training session when McCorry and his assistant John Morrison outlined their strategy for the game . |
| 30 | As they did detectives continued their search for the driver who 'd disappeared immediately after the crash . |