Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv prt] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
| 2 | In fact , these advisory councils neither have the strength conferred by expert knowledge , nor the experience of full-time work in the field , nor the responsibility conferred by direct election , but they cover up for the assumed need for some outside , popular supervision of these administrative agencies . |
| 3 | they put her in , they put in for the higher |
| 4 | They holed up for the next two days in Leatherslade Farm House … at Oakley twenty seven miles away . |
| 5 | There was no happy return to the Hippy days when they teamed up for the Sixties hit I Got You Babe . |
| 6 | DUNCAN FERGUSON and Scott Booth will this afternoon get the opportunity to justify Craig Brown 's opinion that they are full internationalists of the future when they team up for the first time in Scotland 's Under-21 side . |
| 7 | Accompanied by Major Clive Elderton , the Company Commander , and the interpreter , they set off for the local slaughterhouse some ten kilometres away . |
| 8 | Maclean realized that their only chance was to bluff their way out of the situation , so they set off for the main gate . |
| 9 | They signed up for the same courses and joined the same societies ; they sat together in seminars and went together to the National Film Theatre ; they had sex together and moved together into a one-roomed flat in their second year . |
| 10 | They talked on for the best part of an hour , ending in agreement that there was no solution to this problem , short of the mass emigration of millions . |
| 11 | Of course not , they 've been elected for a period , they serve to the end of that period , whether they 're made redundant or not , so they go on for the four year term . |
| 12 | They go in for the emotional point of view , and I thought it would help them see me in a fatherly light , giving him my own name . |
| 13 | So it 's two days out in the field with one of our trainers or top people and then they come in for the three day course . |
| 14 | In the end , they held on for the vital points , having gained five in their last three games to ensure safety . |