Example sentences of "they [vb past] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain from the 1820s all attachés had to have a letter of appointment signed by the secretary of state ; and from 1815 a number of them began for the first time to be paid . |
| 2 | ‘ If we can keep them contained for the first half then we 've got a chance of pinching a couple of goals . ’ |
| 3 | Scientists working on the jet fusion project at Culham in south Oxfordshire have been protesting today in a bid to influence leading figures in the project as they met for the second day of their full Council Meeting . |
| 4 | ‘ Old Mr Misfortune ’ found consolation for his latest failure by marrying his 17-year-old bride , on the very day they met for the first time , 2 September 1719 . |
| 5 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
| 6 | They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute . |
| 7 | They met for the first time at the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Society in Princes Avenue on the 25 April 1890 . |
| 8 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 9 | Seems like the only parts they got for a young actress nowadays she gets six lines , they cut three and she gets raped in the first ten minutes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 12 | The 128 they made for the fifth wicket actually saw the visitors go on the defensive , although not for long . |
| 13 | Trent waited until they made for the upriver side , then charged forward uncaring . |
| 14 | They made for the steep edge . |
| 15 | They asked for a multi-agency conference to be convened , involving the Social Work Department , teachers , doctors and health visitors . |
| 16 | And they Sought for a Better Sign from Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) , and there was a Sign ; ii . |
| 17 | It was then that they disagreed for the first time about the terms of their verbal agreement and a serious rift developed between them . |
| 18 | They came for the first lot for nine months , then they went back . |
| 19 | ALISON Hargreaves and her children put in some low-altitude training in Scotland yesterday as they prepared for the high life of the Himalayas . |
| 20 | Anglers discovered dead fish frozen into the Grand Union Canal when they arrived for a major match . |
| 21 | When in Washington both Houses , in an extraordinary mark of respect , asked him to give the opening prayer as they assembled for the fifty-fifth Congress . ) |
| 22 | They pressed for a particular re-reading of Darwin to add weight to the older evangelical claim that women had a rightful place in regulating sex . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The backbenchers were making the point yesterday that the Chancellor was not the man they blamed for the economic crisis . |
| 25 | They kissed for a long time , and indeed there was still longing there , in both of them , a kind of hopeless longing . |
| 26 | They cheered for every good shot . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Berg implies that they settled for a stable relationship , Frances acting the perfect Hollywood wife and ultimately finding consolation in religion , while Sam 's unspent emotions were burned off in work . |
| 29 | She was by that time too valuable a property to be junked , so they settled for a short suspension and a revised entry in the book . |
| 30 | They called for a broader curriculum in a survey that revealed that 14 per cent believe bank loans are interest-free . |