Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a similar fashion treasury departments of banks and discount houses also make their own estimates to enable them to plan their strategy for their ‘ book ’ of money market instruments . |
| 2 | The National Executive wrote to the four signatories and supporters who were most closely identified with the Petition campaign , Bevan , Strauss , Cdr Young , and W. Bruce , asking them to discontinue their support for the campaign or face expulsion from the Party . |
| 3 | Vital common features of the two forms are the signatures required on them to establish their validity for implementation . |
| 4 | They are the notices which you are required to give to your local council 's Building Control department , to enable them to inspect your work for compliance with the appropriate regulation requirements . |
| 5 | You 're expecting them to remember it word for word as though it you know it 's ingrained on their soul almost and ca n't |
| 6 | ‘ He has a very good team here and he would be better off letting them do his talking for him . ’ |
| 7 | Dolly hopped back to the bedroom just in time , for a moment later up came Linda and Ella to say that as Sergeant Joe was out , their mum had asked them to keep her company for a bit . |
| 8 | The Party loved it , they gave him a standing ovation and Mr Kinnock went back for an encore to tell them to save their strength for the election . |
| 9 | Linking hands , they whispered their love for one another , and although they were kept physically apart by those old granite stones , they were in another sense brought close together by them , for it is curiously easier to give your heart away through a hole in the wall than to swear your fidelity between the sheets of a feather bed . |
| 10 | They affirmed their support for a continued US military presence in Europe . |
| 11 | They make me grub for lily-roots |
| 12 | My hands got very cold too , but my mother helped me every morning by baking two potatoes in their skins for me to keep in my pockets ; they retained their heat for quite a long time . |
| 13 | For , on the one hand , they dispensed valuable resources : opportunities for lamb-barrel politics were an incentive to people to participate in popular democracy , to stand for election to a committee , even if they doubted its suitability for managing a complex hierarchical organization . |
| 14 | The play moved over to the other side of the field and they stopped their conversation for a moment to follow it . |
| 15 | ROUND the world yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnson and his crew were off the southern coast of Brazil yesterday as they maintained their challenge for the Jules Verne Trophy . |
| 16 | Many students told me that they only joined the League because it was the correct thing to do at middle school and at university they maintained their membership for the social functions the League organised , such as outings and dances . |
| 17 | Earlier this week we joined them in Hungary as they rehearsed their display for the Fairford show . |
| 18 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 19 | They granted themselves permission for Stonecross offices which was against the local plan , he said . |
| 20 | Where do they send their aluminium for making into wire and sheets of metal ? |
| 21 | They reiterated their call for a popular referendum on the country 's future political system . |
| 22 | They recall his taste for long walks of twenty to twenty-five miles in rural settings away from Battersea , his passion for fishing in ponds and canals , and his accurate enlightening knowledge of birds , trees , insects , and flowers . |
| 23 | They save their wrath for other working-class youths like themselves , who happen to have been born or grown up somewhere else . |
| 24 | They telephone all day ; they run after me in the streets ; they bribe my barber for locks of my hair ; they make my life unbearable . |
| 25 | His daughter and her fiance are left on stage , where they confirm their love for each other with a poetry that Eliot would have once found impossible to write : |
| 26 | ‘ How are you , sir ? ’ they say as they compress your hand for good measure . |
| 27 | Yeah but the the reason I look at the the poxy Hotpoint because they say well , they guarantee their part for five years , alright ? |
| 28 | The selection board said that Gerstner was the first person they had spoken to when they began their quest for a new chief in January . |
| 29 | The selection board said that Gerstner was the first person they had spoken to when they began their quest for a new chief in January . |
| 30 | The speakers have chosen their own topics , based on their own interests and enthusiasms , and it is important that they convey their zest for the subject to an audience , preferably establishing at the outset that the subject deserves the audience 's attention . |