Example sentences of "they [vb past] for a [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 | They asked for a multi-agency conference to be convened , involving the Social Work Department , teachers , doctors and health visitors . |
| 3 | And they Sought for a Better Sign from Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) , and there was a Sign ; ii . |
| 4 | They 'd never amount to a fortune — not at a penny a hundred points — but at least they paid for a few packets of cigarettes . |
| 5 | Anglers discovered dead fish frozen into the Grand Union Canal when they arrived for a major match . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They walked for a few minutes in silence . |
| 8 | They kissed for a long time , and indeed there was still longing there , in both of them , a kind of hopeless longing . |
| 9 | " They talked for a few moments , and then he handed her an envelope and walked away . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They called for a broader curriculum in a survey that revealed that 14 per cent believe bank loans are interest-free . |
| 13 | They called for a negotiated settlement restoring the republic 's sovereignty and territorial integrity . |
| 14 | They had all the grain of which they needed for a good breakfast to finish |
| 15 | They started for a Communist Party hangout . |
| 16 | They chatted for a few minutes but Treloar had nothing more to say . |
| 17 | When the meal was over , they went for a late drink , then for a dance . |
| 18 | Saunders , playing his final match for Liverpool before his £2.3m move to Aston Villa , clashed with Elliott in the 10th minute as they went for a 50-50 ball . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Rather than continuing to attempt to police the whole world , they looked for a tighter unity of the formal Empire . |
| 21 | I think people wanted a change and that 's why they voted for a liberal democrat councillor . |
| 22 | They voted for a Tory Government instead . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | At 8.30am yesterday they departed for a one hour , speed endurance training session , completed before the temperature began its climb to 30 C. |
| 25 | As a proportion of national consumer expenditure , advertising more than doubled between 1945 and 1990 , so they competed for a growing purse . |
| 26 | They accounted for a tiny fraction of that year 's death toll . |
| 27 | As they longed for a spiritual assurance of Christ 's presence and received it in the Holy Spirit which literally inspired in them knowledge and love of God so the meditator may grow in inner spiritual knowledge ( c.33 , 36 ) . |
| 28 | They wrote for a small range of specialist titles , some of them bright and poppy , others resoundingly self-important , and all of them perfectly arcane to anyone outside a specific , like-minded clientele . |
| 29 | They halted for a short time near midafternoon to rest the horses . |
| 30 | There they stood for a long time by a low stone wall , staring hopelessly out at the yellow fields of stubble , where the wheatsheaves were stooked and ready for gathering into the barn . |