Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The on-screen couple , quietly glowing with beauty and amusement — they seemed made for each other ; but after various misunderstandings and adventures they ended up going their separate ways . |
| 2 | They 'd asked for more space , as part of the head office refurbishment , but this was ridiculous ! |
| 3 | THREE yachtsmen were plucked from the Atlantic yesterday after they 'd clung for seven hours to the hull of their overturned racing sloop . |
| 4 | Doctors at a Bristol hospital said today , they 'd called for more research following two cases there in which mothers had used water baths in the early stages of labour . |
| 5 | Among the flowers , a tribute from the hospital , to a nurse they 'd known for 5 years who 'll be deeply missed . |
| 6 | And the studio floor was covered with meat , and they had this dog they 'd starved for three days with contact mics all over its stomach … and they were recording him eating the meat ! |
| 7 | They 'd paid for three days , so the rest could buy a cleaner , could n't it ? |
| 8 | They claimed to speak for traditional family values and found support from various fundamentalists — Orthodox Jewish , Roman Catholic , Baptist — in an attempt both to broaden their appeal among Haringey 's multiracial population and to strengthen their message that homosexuality was ‘ unnatural ’ in all cultures . |
| 9 | They began to look for more drink and the Junior showed his initiative by going up to the off-licence with the Porter and bringing back armfuls of the stuff . |
| 10 | He then paid tribute to the Alresford Society , pointing out that when they started pushing for environmental improvements in the 1970s , it was before conservation had come into fashion . |
| 11 | When they started to gather for another push , the second wave of mounted police went in , scattering the pickets right across the field . |
| 12 | Hubel and his colleagues had studied the visual cortex of the rhesus monkey for many years without observing these cells and it was only when the cytochrome oxidase blobs had been demonstrated consistently and they started to look for receptive-field properties within them that they obtained these surprising results . |
| 13 | When they discovered a pair of woman 's shoes they decided to hunt for more clues , even joking that ‘ we might find a body . ’ |
| 14 | They decided to meet for 24 hours every nine months with an initial commitment of three years . |
| 15 | Shortly afterwards , Fiona and James moved to Belgium , where they decided to try for another baby . |
| 16 | They went looking for former hotel porter Joao Gomes , 40 , after his wife Maria , 39 , was stabbed to death on Tuesday at her flat on the Elysee Estate in St Helier . |
| 17 | A number of organisations to which we spoke provided ( paid ) training for people filling such positions , despite the fact that they would only be working for them on a casual basis and might even use the skills they acquired working for other organisations . |
| 18 | The light was fading perceptibly now ; they had set out in the full glare of the midday sun , but they had ridden for several hours and dusk was creeping across the land . |
| 19 | They had embraced for mutual comfort . |
| 20 | They had to settle for three consolation points , leaving them second three points below Gresford . |
| 21 | They 're here all this morning , but they had to go for another meeting . |
| 22 | The hot water pipes gurgled as they had done for ten years . |
| 23 | She had always suspected that he 'd had little time for any brain power that she might possess — just as she had always known that her chief value for him had been the almost instantaneous sexual desire they had felt for each other . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The oil mingled with the warm salty water which leaked from places in the ceilings , and that was one of the reasons they had asked for some sort of banister rail to hold on to in the narrow winding-stair . |
| 26 | Long-standing staff say February was the busiest they had seen for 20 years . ’ |
| 27 | That is why I I I mentioned those mar , those remarks right at the beginning , God will never ever send another pentecost , the only people that God told to wait were those early disciples to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came and they had to wait for ten days from the ascension of Jesus until the Holy Spirit came . |
| 28 | The Hospital quickly became unable to cater for all the victims of ill health , disaster and old age , and eligibility became restricted to merchant seamen only if they had served for some period in the Royal Navy . |
| 29 | ‘ They would not have to wait until they had worked for two years before being eligible for unemployment and sickness benefit or parental leave . ’ |
| 30 | It was the room they had shared for 30 years since they had moved in to claim his inheritance . |