Example sentences of "they [vb past] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Trent waited until they made for the upriver side , then charged forward uncaring . |
| 4 | They made for the steep edge . |
| 5 | They asked for a multi-agency conference to be convened , involving the Social Work Department , teachers , doctors and health visitors . |
| 6 | ALISON Hargreaves and her children put in some low-altitude training in Scotland yesterday as they prepared for the high life of the Himalayas . |
| 7 | Anglers discovered dead fish frozen into the Grand Union Canal when they arrived for a major match . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The backbenchers were making the point yesterday that the Chancellor was not the man they blamed for the economic crisis . |
| 11 | They kissed for a long time , and indeed there was still longing there , in both of them , a kind of hopeless longing . |
| 12 | They cheered for every good shot . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They called for a negotiated settlement restoring the republic 's sovereignty and territorial integrity . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They had all the grain of which they needed for a good breakfast to finish |
| 19 | They started for a Communist Party hangout . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When the meal was over , they went for a late drink , then for a dance . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The southern States stand out very strongly as having experienced a Democratic hegemony then , as they did for the entire century beforehand . |
| 26 | I think people wanted a change and that 's why they voted for a liberal democrat councillor . |
| 27 | They voted for a Tory Government instead . |
| 28 | According to this view , instead of representing workers or peasants , they spoke for a new class spawned by advancing capitalism , the class from which they themselves sprang — the intelligentsia . |
| 29 | This generation was the heart and soul of the caring years : they marched for the National Abortion Campaign ( NAC ) against White and Corrie ; they got their picket line bruises at Grunwick , their degrees from Cambridge , Keele or Warwick . |
| 30 | As a proportion of national consumer expenditure , advertising more than doubled between 1945 and 1990 , so they competed for a growing purse . |