Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] for their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once round the loch and they headed back for their car , muttering that we were wasting our time because there was not a single fish in the loch . |
| 2 | If I remember , that was on a Saturday night when the gents came down for their pickings . |
| 3 | Despite a slow start there was soon a reasonable amount of activity as students came in for their lunches . |
| 4 | A week after they left to join a transport at Warsaw , permission came through for their parents to follow them ‘ for domestic service ’ . |
| 5 | Came over for their wedding did n't she , was it ? |
| 6 | Before darkness fell , and the attempt could be made , Edward 's heralds came back for their answer . |
| 7 | Huddersfield made up for their failure in the Cup by winning the League Championship in the next season , 1923–4 . |
| 8 | The two ships then started back for their home port . |
| 9 | Instead of us , you know , instead of it blocking out for our benefit , I reckon it blocked out for their benefit somehow a hell of a lot of insulation , in here |
| 10 | She called out for their return , she wept convulsively , she implored God . … |
| 11 | Before long the bells of St. Andrew 's Church rang out for their wedding and Mary was safely ensconced in a corner of Ince , which Killigrew had carefully divided into four equal parts . |
| 12 | I 'll quickly rattle through the next one effectively nothing more has happened at Napier , they went off for their Christmas holidays about the fourth of November and came back about the nineteenth of January er , not quite as bad as that but nearly as I mean they 've even longer holidays than we 've got and we get a fortnight at Christmas and New Year |
| 13 | That meant that one would expect , close by the walls , dilapidated streets and ruinous houses , robbed out for their stone . |
| 14 | She forked out for their flights to Malaga and taxis from the airport to the villa . |
| 15 | But places , too , sometimes cried out for their crime . |
| 16 | Peter Woodgate won the third division singles by beating Robin Swan , while Simon Woods and Chris Jacob warmed up for their men 's singles meeting by reaching the final of the hard bat singles , Woods emerging the victor . |
| 17 | WEST Hartlepool and Newcastle Gosforth warmed up for their Courage League National Division Two showdown a week on Saturday with wins of vastly contrasting styles . |
| 18 | Ĺeonie 's birthday was a week after Thérèse 's , in mid July , just before she and Madeleine set off for their summer holidays with the family in France . |
| 19 | All went well on the long trip to the Jebel mountains and from there the intrepid raiding party set off for their target . |
| 20 | His finest hour was when , as a member of the Royal Commission , he stood up for their interests and dissented valiantly from the majority . |