Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb past] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overwhelming majority of Russians — some 83 per cent in the 1989 census — lived in the Russian Republic , where they accounted for the same proportion of the local population . |
| 2 | Shortly afterwards they were outward bound for the Great Barrier Reef where they cruised for a year in search of a dream . |
| 3 | The Chiefs of Staff took the unusual step of going down to the Royal Naval College , Greenwich , in the late spring of 1952 , where they worked for a fortnight on Churchill 's requirement with their principal scientific and technological advisers , free from the day-to-day hubbub of Whitehall . |
| 4 | She thanked them for their efforts but although they waited for a tip it was not forthcoming , so they went off grumbling . |
| 5 | The TV detection team did n't fall for it , any more than they did for the man who claimed his set was never used . |
| 6 | As a proportion of national consumer expenditure , advertising more than doubled between 1945 and 1990 , so they competed for a growing purse . |
| 7 | She was by that time too valuable a property to be junked , so they settled for a short suspension and a revised entry in the book . |
| 8 | It was too cold and wet for champagne , so they settled for a cup of tea . |
| 9 | ’ So they romanced for a time , whispering on the edge of sleep , until a noise of footsteps , first a few and then large numbers , came from the road outside . |
| 10 | After reading a letter about youths and unemployment , the gist of which was their unwillingness to work , I was incensed by the statement , ‘ Even if they applied for a job in the catering industry , it would be something ’ . |
| 11 | If they went for a drink everybody was calling them scabs and if they went anywhere then , some some had their cars sprayed with paint and oh they had everything done , they were all against them . |
| 12 | If they went for the traditional look I suppose they 'd all be wearing hard hats that looked like the flat cap Victorian cyclists always wore . |
| 13 | But Dalgliesh knew that Massingham still half-regretted the days when women police officers were content to find lost children , search female prisoners , reform prostitutes , comfort the bereaved and , if they hankered for the excitement of criminal investigation , were suitably occupied coping with the peccadilloes of juvenile delinquents . |
| 14 | Trent waited until they made for the upriver side , then charged forward uncaring . |
| 15 | Neither the Conservatives nor Labour , therefore , had a chance of retaining or obtaining office unless they abandoned for the time being the principal position which they fought the election to obtain . |
| 16 | Many mothers were upset because they feared for the safety of their children — and because , for numerous women , control over young people had been one of the few ways to exercise power in society . |
| 17 | It was a private lair , and though they 'd often wished to have a fire they 'd never done so — not because they feared for the dry wood of the spinney but because they knew that rising smoke would sooner or later be investigated . |
| 18 | They spent their six-hour train journey drinking — and went into a pub for more while they waited for a connection . |
| 19 | In Sydney , while they waited for a steamer to take them up the coast to Newcastle , the Goulds stayed with Dr George Bennett , secretary to the Australian Museum . |
| 20 | After a short discussion on the merits of the duck , he decided to join her ; and while they waited for the first course to arrive , he regaled her with a colourful account of that afternoon 's meeting in the history department to sort out the timetable . |
| 21 | They went into the staff-room and grabbed a coffee while they waited for the results , then they studied them together on the lightbox . |
| 22 | The minutes dragged while they listened for the first hum of the approaching helicopter . |
| 23 | This is precisely what Robson , Jennings , and Willis were advocating since they argued for the rationalization of our haphazard arrangements for tribunals with an appellate jurisdiction vested in an administrative appeal tribunal which would be separate from the High Court . |
| 24 | And , having no idea how important this or that person was , whether they worked for the BBC or the TLS or the BFI , he treated them all with equal condescension . |
| 25 | It was argued that it unfairly penalized those who worked throughout their lives until their mid-sixties , but were thrown onto the Poor Law before they qualified for the pension . |
| 26 | After the congratulatory hugs and tears and kisses , they opened a bottle of champagne before they went for a drive round London nursing their secret . |
| 27 | In the final game Waikato took the honours 28–24 , leafing Rugby Canada to wonder just how long it would be before they won for the first time on New Zealand soil . |
| 28 | The Wallabies knew there was high interest in Australia when they prepared for the semi-final and final matches . |
| 29 | He alleged that inquiry officers had lied about seeing a flickering light in a bedroom window of his home when they applied for a search warrant . |
| 30 | Under the new arrangements there would be an ‘ intermediaries offer ’ to increase the distribution of new shares by giving private clients priority when they applied for the 25 per cent of the issue that is not distributed by the sponsor in a placing . |