Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car 's hydraulics soughed as they tried to compensate for the sudden shift of the bubble but against that gale they were all but useless , and the bubble-canopy clanged on the car 's shell . |
| 2 | On the edge of the runway Greg brought the ambulance to a halt and while they prepared to wait for the incoming aircraft , David maintained radio contact with the control tower . |
| 3 | The Audit Commission review which was published in 1986 identified five main obstacles which they thought accounted for the slow and fragmented way that community care had developed in England and Wales . |
| 4 | They had invested for the long term , if not in imperial unity ( and significantly , nothing was said at Worms about emperorship or empire ) , then in the coexistence of Lothar and Charles in the regnum francorum . |
| 5 | They had to hassle for the best part of the day to get the machine out of the factory because , like most of these auctions , the auctioneers wanted the place cleared immediately . |
| 6 | As it turned out , the studio ‘ was n't up to much any more and half the equipment was broken ’ , but , according to Mondays ' manager Nathan McGough , ‘ a little light went on as soon as I met Chris and Tina , so I phoned them to ask what they thought of the band and what they had planned for the next couple of months ’ . |
| 7 | The CDU parliamentary group had accused Gies ( who had headed the CDU list but had not won a direct seat in the October 1990 Landtag election ) of obliging three other CDU delegates to resign after that election by alleging that they had worked for the former East German " Stasi " security police . |
| 8 | As one of the group put it : ‘ It made people think about what they wanted to do for the whole year . ’ |