Example sentences of "they [verb] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is considerable ( ? deliberate ) confusion about the figures , but it seems that general practice and community services will receive about 4% extra revenue next year to help them prepare for the extra workload . |
| 2 | Do n't overfeed them to compensate for the fasting stage . |
| 3 | Those behind the Premier League shudder at the prospect of them heading for the big time . |
| 4 | I suspect that they also had scholarly and dedicated teachers and well read ministers and the encouragement of parents who realised that the only chance their children had of improving their way of life was by having the best education possible which would enable them to compete for the limited number of places which were available in the colleges and universities . |
| 5 | Instead , several different groups of biologists tried , each in their own way , to modernize field studies in a manner that would allow them to compete for the ever-increasing supply of research funding being made available by governments and private institutions . |
| 6 | When Chuck crossed to the cook tent , carrying his rifle for the early start they planned for the final day , his father was already sitting at a table in the open , sipping a steaming mug of black coffee . |
| 7 | But among them , they account for the great majority of all innovation opportunities . |
| 8 | Trent waited until they made for the upriver side , then charged forward uncaring . |
| 9 | They made for the steep edge . |
| 10 | Well I 'm not , it 's not sometimes they have they wait for the local officer to come on duty . |
| 11 | ALISON Hargreaves and her children put in some low-altitude training in Scotland yesterday as they prepared for the high life of the Himalayas . |
| 12 | ‘ Whenever they are exposed to real difficulty ’ , he pointed out , ‘ they run for the British umbrella . ’ |
| 13 | The only possible savings would be from reductions in the number of teachers in the maintained schools , which would come about if parents were to stick to the survey preferences that they indicated for the independent sector . |
| 14 | The backbenchers were making the point yesterday that the Chancellor was not the man they blamed for the economic crisis . |
| 15 | This was not as easy as they hoped ; they knew that , however much it might disapprove of their activities , the English government certainly had no power to get its orders obeyed on the western side of the Atlantic , but their charter , which they hoped would make them independent of England , and on which they relied for the legal basis of their community , said — like all the other charters — that they must not pass laws that were not consistent with English laws . |
| 16 | They called for the temporary suspension of activities by all political parties , who were further requested to draw up a code of conduct to regulate their activities . |
| 17 | It was a private lair , and though they 'd often wished to have a fire they 'd never done so — not because they feared for the dry wood of the spinney but because they knew that rising smoke would sooner or later be investigated . |
| 18 | During the inquiry they ask for the electronic serial number of the mobile phone which is then used for the illegal duplication of the phone unit . |
| 19 | If they went for the traditional look I suppose they 'd all be wearing hard hats that looked like the flat cap Victorian cyclists always wore . |
| 20 | Children who received punishment as they reached for the attractive toy showed greater resistance to temptation than children punished just after they had picked it up or at a point several seconds later . |
| 21 | The southern States stand out very strongly as having experienced a Democratic hegemony then , as they did for the entire century beforehand . |
| 22 | They punt for the long term , but protect incumbent management . |
| 23 | This generation was the heart and soul of the caring years : they marched for the National Abortion Campaign ( NAC ) against White and Corrie ; they got their picket line bruises at Grunwick , their degrees from Cambridge , Keele or Warwick . |
| 24 | Then they left for the 13-mile drive to their luxurious home at Corston , near Bath . |
| 25 | ‘ Why two rooms ? ’ asked Billie as they waited for the slow-moving lift to ascend to the third floor . |
| 26 | ‘ What do you mean ? ’ she demanded angrily as they waited for the ancient lift to grind its way up from below . |
| 27 | All sounds were muffled except the song of the birds and the pigeons were puffed up , looking as if they were wearing greatcoats , as they waited for the generous breakfast which they knew Jane would bring out to them . |
| 28 | Reading have returned to the blueprint of their 1990 title success by recalling Per Jonsson and Armando Castagna as they strive for the right formula to regain the league championship . |
| 29 | As with the free ion , the inter-electronic effects depend on a number of complicated integrals ; these can be expressed in terms of Racah parameters , but B and C do not have the same values as they have for the free ion . |
| 30 | Courses were necessary for mainstream teachers , including headteachers , to help them cater for the multilingual population of their schools , and Heads of Modern Languages , who were often given responsibilities for South Asian languages despite the current limitations of their professional competence to foreign European languages , were a prime target for reorientation courses . |