Example sentences of "they [vb past] for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Seems like the only parts they got for a young actress nowadays she gets six lines , they cut three and she gets raped in the first ten minutes .
2 When Chuck crossed to the cook tent , carrying his rifle for the early start they planned for the final day , his father was already sitting at a table in the open , sipping a steaming mug of black coffee .
3 They made for the outer offices , but it was too late .
4 Trent waited until they made for the upriver side , then charged forward uncaring .
5 They made for the steep edge .
6 They asked for a multi-agency conference to be convened , involving the Social Work Department , teachers , doctors and health visitors .
7 It had not been posted from outside or even sent through the internal mail in one of the recycled envelopes Prince Charles insisted they used for the interminable memos that are a feature of Palace life .
8 Yes they came for the other islands .
9 ALISON Hargreaves and her children put in some low-altitude training in Scotland yesterday as they prepared for the high life of the Himalayas .
10 But in so doing , they ignored a continuing problem ; and they created a new one , for the price they paid for the French troops who solved the English military problem was a monarch who was taught to be French and Catholic , and who would return to her country only when both these things clashed with the prevailing balance of power in Scotland .
11 Wanting to keep their plans secret , and convinced that ‘ no one would fund such a crazy idea ’ , they paid for the initial experiments out of their own pockets .
12 Anglers discovered dead fish frozen into the Grand Union Canal when they arrived for a major match .
13 They pressed for a particular re-reading of Darwin to add weight to the older evangelical claim that women had a rightful place in regulating sex .
14 The only possible savings would be from reductions in the number of teachers in the maintained schools , which would come about if parents were to stick to the survey preferences that they indicated for the independent sector .
15 The backbenchers were making the point yesterday that the Chancellor was not the man they blamed for the economic crisis .
16 They kissed for a long time , and indeed there was still longing there , in both of them , a kind of hopeless longing .
17 They cheered for every good shot .
18 This was not as easy as they hoped ; they knew that , however much it might disapprove of their activities , the English government certainly had no power to get its orders obeyed on the western side of the Atlantic , but their charter , which they hoped would make them independent of England , and on which they relied for the legal basis of their community , said — like all the other charters — that they must not pass laws that were not consistent with English laws .
19 Berg implies that they settled for a stable relationship , Frances acting the perfect Hollywood wife and ultimately finding consolation in religion , while Sam 's unspent emotions were burned off in work .
20 She was by that time too valuable a property to be junked , so they settled for a short suspension and a revised entry in the book .
21 They called for a negotiated settlement restoring the republic 's sovereignty and territorial integrity .
22 They called for the temporary suspension of activities by all political parties , who were further requested to draw up a code of conduct to regulate their activities .
23 They had all the grain of which they needed for a good breakfast to finish
24 They started for a Communist Party hangout .
25 It was a private lair , and though they 'd often wished to have a fire they 'd never done so — not because they feared for the dry wood of the spinney but because they knew that rising smoke would sooner or later be investigated .
26 When the meal was over , they went for a late drink , then for a dance .
27 If they went for the traditional look I suppose they 'd all be wearing hard hats that looked like the flat cap Victorian cyclists always wore .
28 They hankered for the bright lights of the capital , so in early 1778 they sold up and headed once again for London .
29 CAMERA-shy ministers avoided photographers yesterday as they gathered for a crucial Cabinet meeting to thrash out the Government 's public spending plans for the coming financial year .
30 Children who received punishment as they reached for the attractive toy showed greater resistance to temptation than children punished just after they had picked it up or at a point several seconds later .
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