Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had embraced for mutual comfort . |
| 2 | At the very first meeting in St Margaret 's Hope village hall they had asked for monetary pledges , at the second meeting in the local school they said it was time to call in those promises and start counting the cash . |
| 3 | Round about the time of the miners ' ballot , hospital workers were holding meetings in South Yorkshire hospitals where only months earlier they had voted for all-out strike action . |
| 4 | Instead , they have argued for non-discriminatory tariffs which , in effect , would be imposed in a way which would take the existing level of imports as a baseline . |
| 5 | The monuments in our care are the best and they have survived for specific reasons — yet they are only the tip the iceberg of our archaeological inheritance . |
| 6 | It reinforces the need for ex-employees to be very careful not to use non-literal elements from programs they have written for previous employers . |
| 7 | They have prayed for new ways to effect transformation and green consumerism has been revealed to them . |