Example sentences of "[coord] they [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various documents later describe him as ‘ Charles Titford ’ , with the ‘ William ’ entered later as an afterthought , or they settle for calling him ‘ Charles William Titford ’ instead . |
| 2 | I mean either they opt for a family , or they opt for a job . |
| 3 | said to me about Pauline 's kids her three lads , not the baby like the two lads she said , oh she said er they came to play one night , or they came for tea or something and she goes to work at night you know , she said Paul was looking after them and she said , he said you could hear all this banging up and down the stairs , he said , bloody hell he said they were going mad , and I thought that 's what Tom and Hannah do when they come here , I said your two bang up and down like bloody anything I said that 's normal , you know for kids . |
| 4 | and they say pen and then they say one rupee , which is a tiny bit of currency , erm and they ask for pens for their school so that they can write at school . |
| 5 | And they ask for four for a very good reason . |
| 6 | Red dwarfs are faint , cool and small , and they account for 70 per cent of the Galaxy 's stars . |
| 7 | I made four locks for the gates on Lord 's cricket ground er and when I 'm telling you this , and practically without exception , they must 've er got to know me and they come for what they wanted . |
| 8 | S. H. There was a lot of us on reserve duty at St George 's Hall , about forty or fifty of us , and one bloody bobby sat there with us and they sent for him . |
| 9 | It did n't dawn on me how seriously injured I was until I got into hospital and they sent for a cameraman to photograph me because they had never seen anyone survive injuries like mine and they wanted a record . |
| 10 | Yes and they sent for er Mr sent for an ambulance and all , but he refused to get into it , once he heard the ambulance was coming he was all |
| 11 | And they know for a fact the minute your kids grab them that you 've got to pay . |
| 12 | But before doing so , he contacted the solicitors who represented him in 1981 and they arranged for the crown court appearance . |
| 13 | He returned the embrace and they relaxed for a while in the comfort and safety of each other . |
| 14 | , and they came for eighteen months , two years , at the end of which the quality of the work had deteriorated , price was rocketing up |
| 15 | After supper my father went to see the doctor and they went for a walk together to kill time up until the appointed hour . |
| 16 | He asked what they would like to drink and they asked for coffee , declining his offer of liqueurs . |
| 17 | The on-set problems of Freud led to Clift suing Universal , claiming they had n't paid him all of his $200,000 fee , and they counter-sued for nearly $700,000 . |
| 18 | We work in the Factory , good work is done here , and they deduct for our food and our keep . |
| 19 | But , er , so hopefully Michelle will get this next Tracey 's position , and obviously sort of in in the meantime and providing her position comes up they are bringing in a Telesales County Secretary , which was n't gon na come in for about a year cos they wanted to sort of like , trial it , but now they 've decided if that 's what they want the position to do erm it 'll probably happen in the next two months and they said for me to go for it from our division , so I said right , okay . |
| 20 | There was the afternoon when he drove out to the Crumbles and they slept for three hours , the wind pushing at the side of the car like a crowd . |
| 21 | As Welsh hockey moves up a step and they prepare for their European Cup qualifier next year , their next games are against Belgium at Newtown at the end of the month . |
| 22 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 23 | The refectory stays open for staff , visitors and conference work and they cater for many special functions throughout the campus . |
| 24 | They are very happy places and they make for a lot of happiness with parents too I think . |
| 25 | What the ovules do is they stay in the grasses and they wait for the pollens to arrive . |
| 26 | And they had a strap and they used to carry all the weight on their foreheads and on , and through their necks , and they used to climb , we went up to seventeen and a half thousand feet , and they climbed up with all these bags and they cooked for us and they got river water for us and sometimes they had to walk a kilometre to the river to go and get the water and then carry it back again er with the band around their heads and so initially it seemed quite difficult to accept them doing this for you , but for them it was a job and erm it was probably the only sort of job that they could get . |
| 27 | The shock of Charles and his army appearing suddenly when they were supposed to be usefully employed in far distant Italy filled the Saxons with fear , and they sued for peace . |
| 28 | He travelled widely in those days , often accompanied by his wife , and they lived for two years in the United States where he was responsible for ICI 's affairs in North and South America . |
| 29 | It 's difficult to judge the especially when the person that you for by someone just popping round and picking something up and they stay for ages , and they did n't know I was taping and then something clicked up in the middle of it . |
| 30 | Traditionally , the C2 and D groups were the so-called ‘ mass market ’ , and they accounted for over 60 per cent of adults until the late seventies . |