Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb past] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a report to a plenary meeting of Tsektran in June , he said that trains should stop acting like droshkys , carrying people and goods where they wished for little or no pay . |
| 2 | In 1851 George Sumner was appointed rector of Old Alresford , Hampshire , where they lived for thirty-four years , and where their son , ( George ) Heywood ( Maunoir ) [ q.v. ] , artist and archaeologist , was born . |
| 3 | While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand . |
| 4 | George nodded and motioned her to silence again ; although they waited for another quarter of an hour , it was a vain vigil ! |
| 5 | Subjective assessments of pain and difficulty during exercise were significantly less for patients in the experimental group on both test dates than for the control group , although they improved for both groups . |
| 6 | Although they struggled for long periods against the same Turkey side England beat 4-0 last month , Graham Taylor — watching from the stands — said : ‘ Of the three results possible , this was the worst one . |
| 7 | The group did not have another discussion about wages for housework as such , although they did for some months follow Ruth 's prepared reading list — an introductory series of Marxist texts , and the issue of wages for housework emerged again through that , in a theoretical discussion . |
| 8 | As each financial year passes , the bow-wave does , indeed , dissipate as research and development programmes meet snags ; as decisions are delayed in the labyrinth of Whitehall committees ; as procurement contracts slip behind schedule ; and as units expend less than they asked for due to similar delays in their day-to-day training and operations . |
| 9 | And so they asked for English counsel and ‘ furtherance ’ . |
| 10 | Fiercely anti-Vichy , Ika 's family had considered it patriotic to have duplicate ration-books ; these they had conveniently retained in a post-Vichy world , and so they wanted for little . |
| 11 | Alec and his colleagues believe the military would laugh at them if they asked for personal protection weapons . |
| 12 | If they fought for one side or the other , Standard Oil would be fighting Standard Oil . |
| 13 | If they knew for certain that a vote of censure could not result in a general election , but would simply bring about a reshuffle in the Government , their conduct would become more robust . |
| 14 | ‘ Better if they paid for some more staff . |
| 15 | Because they worked for large , modern firms , the state was closely involved with their employers , which meant their industrial grievances led them into conflict with the state . |
| 16 | But because they refused for one reason or another to dis you know to have talks with the press or television or the ministers , whoever , I think they they burnt their boats . |
| 17 | Danny , his wife and two kids were forced to lodge with friends while they searched for new digs . |
| 18 | More and more they were now given the title of " extraordinary " , even when they remained for long periods at the courts to which they were sent : increasingly the term , applied to either an ambassador or an envoy , became a mere title of honour . |
| 19 | When they allowed for four different levels of transactions costs , they concluded that many potential opportunities for profitable arbitrage remained . |
| 20 | As they waited for these to declare , the television lights in the club 's library lightly grilled nervous Liberal Democrats as the party 's organiser , Mr Des Wilson , discussed their prospects . |
| 21 | The sun blazed down on the ancient circle of stones , bees buzzed diligently as they searched for late pollen , and birds sang cheerfully in the nearby trees . |
| 22 | Both men lapsed into silence as they searched for familiar faces amongst the last of the crowd trickling into the stadium . |
| 23 | Jessica swung , clinging hard to Rory , as they made for another barn . |
| 24 | Hoarse cries busied the air , and Riven heard the gulls screaming as they fought for odd fish on the quay and whirled round the masts of the ships , speckling the docks with guano . |
| 25 | Not all were as exotic as those with a succession of Miss Worlds , some of whom had to be nursed along ( with a few retakes ) as they struggled for appropriate poise and vocabulary . |
| 26 | As outpatient clinics developed in local general hospitals , GPs started to refer patients to consultants in exactly the same way as they did for other medical specialties . |
| 27 | They should have done much better as they dominated for long spells , but failed miserably in the art of scoring . |