Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swindon Town say they 're disappointed after a Football League Tribunal valued their former player manager Glen Hoddle at only seventy five thousand pounds , when they 'd hoped for a million . |
| 2 | The Audit Commission review which was published in 1986 identified five main obstacles which they thought accounted for the slow and fragmented way that community care had developed in England and Wales . |
| 3 | They 've they 've asked for a few changes to their older system , and this new one will give them all that they want , plus a load that they do n't want . |
| 4 | They 've asked for a third . |
| 5 | They 've asked for a third of what |
| 6 | It was the , the British Corpus asked us if we would be willing to record the last council meeting , because they wanted to , erm , get dialects and accents and use of words from different parts of the country , and they were so enthralled by our display , they 've asked for a further two meetings . |
| 7 | It 's been the best bit of talent we 've , they 've seen for a long while ! |
| 8 | They [ theoretical differences ] are not resolved really ; they continue as quite big arguments ; and there are quite big camps really of those who believe in theory and those who believe in scholarship , I suppose ; and we pretend that you can just muddle along and it does n't matter , but the crunch comes at things like marking exam papers , because if you 've got a student who 's heavily into theory , writing for a marker who 's heavily not into theory , then they tend to say things like ‘ oh , he 's just read Terry Eagleton , so blah blah blah ’ or ‘ she 's just read Cate Belsey and regurgitated that ’ so someone can get a bad mark because they 've written for the wrong person . |
| 9 | They 've called for the gradual introduction of tax increases balanced by a reduction in interest rates . |
| 10 | Mums-to-be only have the right to return to their job if they 've worked for the same company for at least two years . |
| 11 | And the amount of statutory maternity pay to which they 're entitled also depends on how long they 've worked for the same employer . |
| 12 | They had invested for the long term , if not in imperial unity ( and significantly , nothing was said at Worms about emperorship or empire ) , then in the coexistence of Lothar and Charles in the regnum francorum . |
| 13 | They had asked for a greater number of " peacekeeping forces " to be sent , although Sahnoun on Aug. 12 was to emphasize that the proposed deployment was not to be regarded as a peacekeeping operation , but was to protect food distribution . |
| 14 | The leader of the MPs ' delegation , Sir Rhodes Boyson , the former local government minister , said afterwards that they had asked for an extra £650m to offset the sums which some local councils will have to raise in poll tax to the pay their contribution to the nation-wide poll tax safety net . |
| 15 | As it turned out , the studio ‘ was n't up to much any more and half the equipment was broken ’ , but , according to Mondays ' manager Nathan McGough , ‘ a little light went on as soon as I met Chris and Tina , so I phoned them to ask what they thought of the band and what they had planned for the next couple of months ’ . |
| 16 | Michelle was the only one on duty there , but she put down the latest James Herbert long enough to tell me that yes , they had sent for an Airborne messenger just after eleven , and that Anna kept asking if I 'd called . |
| 17 | The CDU parliamentary group had accused Gies ( who had headed the CDU list but had not won a direct seat in the October 1990 Landtag election ) of obliging three other CDU delegates to resign after that election by alleging that they had worked for the former East German " Stasi " security police . |
| 18 | There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time . |
| 19 | And so , after they 'd just slipped off to the local registery office in the city , they had left for a brief honeymoon in Paris . |
| 20 | They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time . |
| 21 | Nothing guarantees that the Americans and Russians will go on supplying it as they have done for the past couple of years . |
| 22 | People in late twentieth-century Britain do not necessarily do less for their relatives than they have done for the past two centuries , nor do they necessarily have a weaker sense of obligation , but they do have to work out the nature of their relationships and the patterns of support associated with them , in circumstances which are very different from the past . |
| 23 | They tend , as they have done for the past fifty years , to respond to the events of the day without projecting forward the effects of their policies for the necessary 18–24 months . |
| 24 | Mr Diplexcito , his wife and three daughters have fought a rearguard action for the past two years to stop their cottage at Spittalburn , where they have lived for the past 17 years , being buried by earthworks . |
| 25 | I did , and they , oh Chris erm happened to notice that they have charged for a new phone that I have n't got . |
| 26 | They have called for an immediate apology and say the muddle may have cost crucial votes in the battle for Darlington . |
| 27 | Last year we recruited almost 300 school leavers onto our Retail Training Scheme [ RTS ] , through which they have studied for a National Vocational Qualification [ NVQ ] certificate . |
| 28 | At present , women only qualify for leave if they have worked for the same employer for two years ; five years for women who work less than 16 hours per week . |
| 29 | For the thirty or so recruits of Calais Platoon , part of the Adult Training Company , today is the day towards which they have worked for the past five months . |
| 30 | Paul and Sarah Davison retained the junior doubles title they have won for the last two years . |