Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control . |
| 2 | Everyone made it back to the rendezvous where they laid up for the day , returning in the evening to pick up the SBS group which had managed to deal with the radio station . |
| 3 | They cared little for the landscape in which they worked . |
| 4 | They staggered on for a year or two after that , but Tesco 's had a big , big change of policy they were no longer high and kick them out cheap , they decided to promote a quality in which stamps did not go for and erm |
| 5 | Because they provided explicitly for the sampling of a wide range of speaker types and speech styles , the data collection methods associated with Labov 's model allowed data to be analysed on all of these dimensions . |
| 6 | They came partly for the singing , the people . |
| 7 | Donal Lunny came down , and Gerry O'Beirne and Mary Custy and Eoin O'Neill , my sister Mary , and Adam Calyton , Mike Scott and Steve Wickham had been over in Spiddal at the time , working with John , so they came over for the crack . |
| 8 | As I watched , the flame , a centimetre behind the wasp 's wax gummed head , freed the antennae from the grease and they came upright for a while before they frazzled . |
| 9 | Last year they came back for a checkup and medics found their wheelchairs were ruined by the war torn terrain . |
| 10 | More than 50 business men and women showed their incredible resolve when they turned up for an emergency meeting in Craigavon yesterday . |
| 11 | Finally in despair they turned back for the fleet , but on approaching this , the ships all scattered under the impression that an enemy torpedo raid was coming in . |
| 12 | There , instead of going straight on towards Alice 's farm , they turned left for The Tiger 's Head , an old pub which stood off the road behind a dusty forecourt . |
| 13 | Theoretically , the Council should have been a cross-section of the people socially ( as we have seen it was geographically ) : its members were appointed by lot , they served only for a year at a time , so that the Councillors should not have felt themselves to be a cohesive hereditary body like the old Areopagus or the ( semi-hereditary ) Roman Senate , and they could not serve more than twice in their lives . |
| 14 | Leicester wobbled , but they hung on for the record equalling win . |
| 15 | It was then that they scooped out for the storage of goods the extensive vaults and cellaring that still run beneath the old town today . |
| 16 | Once the eagles had got used to the return of Minch they settled down for the summer months . |
| 17 | Feeling depressed they worked away for the rest of the night . |
| 18 | They worked steadily for the rest of the morning on the management medicals , Rachel and Nina checking weight , testing urine for any signs of sugar diabetes , taking blood samples to test haemoglobin , thyroid function , liver function and cholesterol levels and checking blood-pressure for hypertension . |
| 19 | They called instead for the assumption of power by the NLD , which had won a landslide electoral victory in May 1990 but not been allowed to take office [ see pp. 37457-58 ] . |
| 20 | Over spaghetti they chatted casually for a while , then Rob said , ‘ You 're looking thinner . |
| 21 | Determined to shoot one with a really fine head , I decided to spend a night near the mountain-top so that I could hunt for them in the early morning before they lay up for the day . |
| 22 | He struck out at them and soared upwards and they fell away for a time . |
| 23 | It might be needed if they went out for the day . |
| 24 | The cloth for their suits was cord ( corduroy ) , as I 've told you ; but sometimes they went in for a suit of heavy tweed — staple tweed it was called ; and at that time they made it as hard as a board . |
| 25 | Not long afterwards , watching , he saw them appear on the roof They looked around for a moment and then went down . |
| 26 | probably part of the reason why they did n't for the time being |
| 27 | An hour later the village bobby was let into the house by Mr Lawson , and shortly afterwards they emerged together for the Chancellor to give the message the world 's money markets had been waiting for . |
| 28 | The sky clouded , grew overcast and heavy , and they waited patiently for the rain to start in on them again , knowing they would be in the warmth of Ivrigar by nightfall . |
| 29 | They took him from his horse , and laid him tenderly on the ground ; Ranulf stood watch while they waited quietly for the man to die . |
| 30 | They waited impatiently for a reply , but none seemed to be forthcoming . |