Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [to-vb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Nevertheless , it 's not uncommon in the United States that families may , for example , have to sell their homes to pay for the medical treatment of a relative . |
2 | On 20 February , you published my letter , which proposed that Labour and the Liberal Democrats should each withdraw from 50 seats that they had no chance of winning , and encourage their supporters to vote for the other party . |
3 | The rest of the major clubs in Scotland , meanwhile , have given unselfishly of their players to compensate for the mass withdrawal from Ibrox . |
4 | However , the need to maximize the anti-power sharing vote convinced both DUP and Vanguard to instruct their followers to vote for the other party as their second or third preference in what was to be a single transferable vote type of proportional representation election . |
5 | ‘ The priests have ordered all their followers to pray for the Prime Mover 's eternal mercy . |