Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if they failed to arrange for a minor repair in the science labs and a pupil was hurt as a result , they might be guilty of a safety offence . |
| 2 | Swindon Town say they 're disappointed after a Football League Tribunal valued their former player manager Glen Hoddle at only seventy five thousand pounds , when they 'd hoped for a million . |
| 3 | They had asked for a greater number of " peacekeeping forces " to be sent , although Sahnoun on Aug. 12 was to emphasize that the proposed deployment was not to be regarded as a peacekeeping operation , but was to protect food distribution . |
| 4 | The leader of the MPs ' delegation , Sir Rhodes Boyson , the former local government minister , said afterwards that they had asked for an extra £650m to offset the sums which some local councils will have to raise in poll tax to the pay their contribution to the nation-wide poll tax safety net . |
| 5 | Michelle was the only one on duty there , but she put down the latest James Herbert long enough to tell me that yes , they had sent for an Airborne messenger just after eleven , and that Anna kept asking if I 'd called . |
| 6 | There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time . |
| 7 | And so , after they 'd just slipped off to the local registery office in the city , they had left for a brief honeymoon in Paris . |
| 8 | County put one across Chester in the Coca-Cola Cup and Francis put opposing keeper Billy Stewart — 6ft 2in and 13 ½ st — in hospital after they collided going for a 50–50 ball . |