Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With their eyes erect and fear in their speed they run for the safety of the waves . |
| 2 | In December , Stuttgart will host the Davis Cup final , in which the West Germans will defend the trophy they won for the first time by defeating Sweden in Gothenburg , and in the coming three years Frankfurt will stage the ATP Tour World Championship , which will supersede the Nabisco Masters in New York . |
| 3 | Lance Gardner , who works at the Castlefields Health Centre , Runcorn , in Cheshire , says the arrangement should give nurses the recognition they deserve for the work they do . |
| 4 | During the inquiry they ask for the electronic serial number of the mobile phone which is then used for the illegal duplication of the phone unit . |
| 5 | The exercises are aimed at a common denominator of concerns amongst secondary school staff but their value lies , not in specific content , but in the process they demonstrate for the structuring of discussion . |
| 6 | There was a special pole they used for the purpose . |
| 7 | I 'm in London I 'm in the nick I 'm in fucking Paddington Green for Christ 's sake , the high-security station they use for the Provos and they think I 'm so dangerous so much a security risk they 've got me here and even holding me under the Prevention of Terrorism Act Jesus God because some of them still are n't convinced they are n't dealing with some unholy alliance of the IRA , Welsh Nationalists and uppity jocks . |
| 8 | The service they perform for the beetles could hardly be more intimate . |
| 9 | ‘ Old Mr Misfortune ’ found consolation for his latest failure by marrying his 17-year-old bride , on the very day they met for the first time , 2 September 1719 . |
| 10 | At 3.30am the following day they left for the summit , Wanda climbing slowly by herself while Carlos , who was going well , reached the summit at 5pm . |
| 11 | But in so doing , they ignored a continuing problem ; and they created a new one , for the price they paid for the French troops who solved the English military problem was a monarch who was taught to be French and Catholic , and who would return to her country only when both these things clashed with the prevailing balance of power in Scotland . |
| 12 | London , who retain the side that defeated the Midlands last weekend , are favourites to clinch the title they won for the first time last year . |
| 13 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The method they employed for the drop is known as HALO ( high altitude low opening ) . |
| 16 | The bags were of that thinner kind of plastic they use for the bags that they give away at the supermarket , the free ones ; and now one of the bags in her right hand split and she just stood there helpless to stop them as three cans fell out and rolled across the concrete . |
| 17 | All that afternoon they waited for the water to come . |
| 18 | With another part they asked for the benefit of good management but without too much external pressure . |
| 19 | These data are of interest not only because of the support they provide for the cohort model , but also because of a more general point they make about cognition , namely , that we must make a clear distinction between the sequence of processing stages and the accessibility of these stages for consciousness , or for the control of responses . |
| 20 | The backbenchers were making the point yesterday that the Chancellor was not the man they blamed for the economic crisis . |
| 21 | ‘ Who 's the man they arrested for the throat-slitting ? ’ |
| 22 | They 've got a double decker they use for the school run and that is absolutely on it 's last legs by the look of it ! |
| 23 | If the unique guitar/drum intros of many of the recorded works here ( you know them all ) are proof of their creative gift , the live CD is an example of the contempt they had for the carnival going on around them . |
| 24 | The present owners of Pool Bank were previously the tenants , and during their tenancy they cared for the gallery and strengthened it , and now as owners will watch over it with loving care . |
| 25 | On the one hand they strengthened the polytechnics ' resistance to the institutional review element in the CNAA 's procedures , but on the other hand they confirmed for the CNAA the value of gaining intelligence about the overall health of the institutions . |
| 26 | Depends on on the success of their audience they got for the pantomime , not |
| 27 | Unlike most animals , mussels do not expend energy searching for food They wait for the tides and currents to bring it to them . |
| 28 | The common ancestry of the structuralists lies in the theoretical form they construe for the objects they analyse . |
| 29 | How would they like a stranger to be in control of the way they look for the next six months ? ’ |
| 30 | The grass , the creepers , the shrubs , the plants of every kind grew thicker every day , and the thicker they grew , the better cover they provided for the sepoys to advance undetected on the ramparts , but for some terrible reason , on the ramparts themselves nothing would grow . |