Example sentences of "[vb pp] for they [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 2 | The chief preoccupation of Methuen 's later years , apart from his painting , and one for which he denied himself many luxuries , was the restoration , maintenance , and improvement of Corsham Court , the family seat , and of the collection of pictures which hung in the magnificent gallery built and furnished for them in the 1760s . |
| 3 | Economic management was largely a matter of measuring resources of manpower and materials and adjudicating between bids made for them by the armed services and the major industries . |
| 4 | It is particularly interesting , however , to discover that a small group of white collar workers at Rolls Royce did not want an intellectually taxing job and provisions were made for them in the final design . |
| 5 | No um Michael Fraser Associates have now started a lobbying operation which is run for them by the former Chief Executive of the Tory Party in Scotland whose name I 've forgotten but he lives down at Tiningham in East Lothian ah , now if I could get him in if Fred does n't object and again if Fred did n't object and the other guy did n't object it might be worth getting a member of Parliament in |
| 6 | If those who work in the media wish to enjoy the freedom desired for them by the Royal Commission — the freedom to publish facts and opinions which are in the public interest — they may have to forgo some of the comparative freedom they enjoy to publish facts and opinions which are not . |
| 7 | Indeed , Eoin O'Duffy , who led an Irish contingent to Spain to help Franco , maintained that they had gone to fight the battle of Christianity against Communism , a view which was confirmed for them by the Irish Dominican father , Revd Paul O' Sullivan when he said : |