Example sentences of "[vb past] their [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men strained their ears for continuing sounds of the ghostly train . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | About one third of drivers said they used their cars for unnecessary journeys . |
| 6 | The Mitterrand Government also announced their plans for worldwide disarmament initiatives covering nuclear , chemical and biological weapons . |
| 7 | None of her infrequent , but uneventful and pleasant , visits to the capital on Women 's Institute theatre excursions or rare shopping trips had failed to shake her conviction that Liverpool Street was the cavernous entry to an urban jungle , where predators armed with bombs and syringes lurked in every Underground station , and seducers laid their snares for innocent provincials in every office . |
| 8 | Eight detainees at Oukacha prison in Casablanca , on hunger strike since Nov. 26 , were on Dec. 25 granted their demands for political prisoner status , the right to family visits and the right to read newspapers ; their families had been fasting in support at the offices of the Moroccan Union of Labour . |
| 9 | ‘ They also expressed a lack of knowledge about what was going on at the time , and they blamed their mothers for that . |
| 10 | YOUNGSTERS at a Darlington school exchanged their uniforms for casual clothes to raise money for the RSPCA . |
| 11 | Another highlight will be the Chilean Air Force 's Halcones aerobatic team making their first British tour since they exchanged their Pittses for Extra 300s . |
| 12 | The man had not been deliberately cruel or corrupt , like so many non-medical people who licensed their houses for this purpose , but he had stuck to the principle that the violent needed continual restraint , and his daughter still feared more progressive methods . |
| 13 | However , many of the new stations began to feature a strongly marked nationalism as the assertive spirits of rival nations jostled with each other and advanced their claims for continental dominance with increasing stridency . |
| 14 | A routine mission on April 24 , followed by a ‘ milk run ’ on April 26 completed their missions for that month , bringing the total to 15 — halfway through their tour/ |
| 15 | CAVAN football team manager P.J. Carroll today revealed that full forward Fintan Cahill had been an absentee as his side completed their preparations for last Sunday 's match against Monaghan . |
| 16 | He was responding to an observation made by planning chief , Mr Ross Chisholm , who said parked buses often ran their engines for more than the permitted two minutes . |
| 17 | Internationalists had their explanations for that , of course , but these failed to carry conviction in the face of the facts . |
| 18 | Butchers closed their doors for three days in the week . |
| 19 | Publishers calculated their advances for best-selling authors like Frederick Forsyth on the basis of sales hyped in international markets . |