Example sentences of "[vb past] their [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men strained their ears for continuing sounds of the ghostly train . |
| 2 | Guiding Lights was showing normal navigation lights but the pitch darkness made distance deceptive and the watchers ashore strained their ears for signs of shore contacts . |
| 3 | Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan tried to lure Beardsley back to his native North East earlier this season , but Kendall spurned their attempt for the player he holds up as an example to all professionals . |
| 4 | His team dismissed their opponents for a record low score . |
| 5 | Many students told me that they only joined the League because it was the correct thing to do at middle school and at university they maintained their membership for the social functions the League organised , such as outings and dances . |
| 6 | ROUND the world yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnson and his crew were off the southern coast of Brazil yesterday as they maintained their challenge for the Jules Verne Trophy . |
| 7 | My hands got very cold too , but my mother helped me every morning by baking two potatoes in their skins for me to keep in my pockets ; they retained their heat for quite a long time . |
| 8 | Around half returned almost immediately , while half deferred their studies for a year . |
| 9 | Sir David Attenborough has been visiting a nature reserve to thank industrialists for helping to save a precious piece of the environment.He joined business sponsors who swopped their pinstripes for green wellies for the day . |
| 10 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 11 | About 1,000 BP employees in Glasgow evacuated their offices for two hours yesterday after a pipe in the chilling plant of an air conditioning system broke loose , releasing gas into the building . |
| 12 | While an overwhelming number of Scottish Labour MPs contacted by The Scotsman this week underlined their support for Mr Clarke , some of his original supporters indicated they would not support him in the shadow cabinet elections later this year . |
| 13 | In the roaring Twenties , the swinging Sixties and the optimistic Eighties , so the theory goes , women bared their knees for joy . |
| 14 | Coleridge and Sara fixed their wedding for early October , and in the meantime began looking for a home . |
| 15 | Earlier this week we joined them in Hungary as they rehearsed their display for the Fairford show . |
| 16 | The play moved over to the other side of the field and they stopped their conversation for a moment to follow it . |
| 17 | In ex-army gear I would n't be seen , as long as I kept still , sitting on my hands , pale face buried in a heather clump , but those long heads that rose between rasping bites of coarse grass had twitching noses that never stopped their search for the enemy — a very efficient sort of olfactory radar . |
| 18 | It was when the community of Muslims had progressed to the second caliph — another companion of Muhammad 's named Omar ibn al-Khattab — that Omar 's Arab followers , already having to confront the resistance of the Byzantine emperor to their efforts to expand their area of influence northward into Palestine and Syria , found their drive for conquest opposed by the Persian empire . |
| 19 | All the family found their grief for Julia hard to bear and to see how their father suffered grieved them still more . |
| 20 | The morning room was for comings and goings , where odd chairs changed their places for different conveniences , and shoes and boots from the fields were not forbidden . |
| 21 | The question may have niggled at the 7,776 advertising talents who entered their work for the prestigious Design & Art Direction Awards , some of whom will turn up tonight at a glittering Grosvenor House junket to find out whether they have won one of the silver or gold pencils . |
| 22 | On April 2 an estimated 50,000 people demonstrated their support for the democracy movement in Kathmandu , while doctors and other professionals joined a general strike , in defiance of legislation prohibiting strikes in " essential services " . |
| 23 | The traditional complaint of consumers — who in Belfast supermarkets this week demonstrated their enthusiasm for cheaper beef — is that they pay twice for the beef mountain . |
| 24 | They killed them and then used their blood for baking the Passover bread . |
| 25 | People also thought officers sometimes used their power for others . |
| 26 | About one third of drivers said they used their cars for unnecessary journeys . |
| 27 | The most deleterious situations were those where general managers abdicated their responsibility for setting strategic direction to staff planners … . |
| 28 | Rich women with Chanel bags rested their weary shopping feet and met their friends for a drink . |
| 29 | Certainly whenever the researchers arrived to arrange their initial series of interviews , several potential interviewees met their request for an interview with queries as to whether we were going to look at ‘ how the incomers/Shetlanders are mixing with Shetlander/incomers ’ . |
| 30 | They affirmed their support for a continued US military presence in Europe . |