Example sentences of "they [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1987 's Locust Abortion Technician saw them dredging for the very dregs of sound . |
| 2 | There is considerable ( ? deliberate ) confusion about the figures , but it seems that general practice and community services will receive about 4% extra revenue next year to help them prepare for the extra workload . |
| 3 | Do n't overfeed them to compensate for the fasting stage . |
| 4 | Those behind the Premier League shudder at the prospect of them heading for the big time . |
| 5 | I suspect that they also had scholarly and dedicated teachers and well read ministers and the encouragement of parents who realised that the only chance their children had of improving their way of life was by having the best education possible which would enable them to compete for the limited number of places which were available in the colleges and universities . |
| 6 | Instead , several different groups of biologists tried , each in their own way , to modernize field studies in a manner that would allow them to compete for the ever-increasing supply of research funding being made available by governments and private institutions . |
| 7 | When Chuck crossed to the cook tent , carrying his rifle for the early start they planned for the final day , his father was already sitting at a table in the open , sipping a steaming mug of black coffee . |
| 8 | But among them , they account for the great majority of all innovation opportunities . |
| 9 | They made for the outer offices , but it was too late . |
| 10 | Trent waited until they made for the upriver side , then charged forward uncaring . |
| 11 | They made for the steep edge . |
| 12 | It had not been posted from outside or even sent through the internal mail in one of the recycled envelopes Prince Charles insisted they used for the interminable memos that are a feature of Palace life . |
| 13 | Yes they came for the other islands . |
| 14 | Well I 'm not , it 's not sometimes they have they wait for the local officer to come on duty . |
| 15 | ALISON Hargreaves and her children put in some low-altitude training in Scotland yesterday as they prepared for the high life of the Himalayas . |
| 16 | They are often used in the paints they mix for the illuminated manuscripts . ’ |
| 17 | But in so doing , they ignored a continuing problem ; and they created a new one , for the price they paid for the French troops who solved the English military problem was a monarch who was taught to be French and Catholic , and who would return to her country only when both these things clashed with the prevailing balance of power in Scotland . |
| 18 | Wanting to keep their plans secret , and convinced that ‘ no one would fund such a crazy idea ’ , they paid for the initial experiments out of their own pockets . |
| 19 | They regard it as significant that the eighth and ninth century saw an increasing volume of exchanges not initiated by the state , but " privately-generated " ; and they look for the new wealth-creators among lords and peasants , finding in rural markets crucial mechanisms of exchange . |
| 20 | ‘ Whenever they are exposed to real difficulty ’ , he pointed out , ‘ they run for the British umbrella . ’ |
| 21 | The only possible savings would be from reductions in the number of teachers in the maintained schools , which would come about if parents were to stick to the survey preferences that they indicated for the independent sector . |
| 22 | The backbenchers were making the point yesterday that the Chancellor was not the man they blamed for the economic crisis . |
| 23 | This was not as easy as they hoped ; they knew that , however much it might disapprove of their activities , the English government certainly had no power to get its orders obeyed on the western side of the Atlantic , but their charter , which they hoped would make them independent of England , and on which they relied for the legal basis of their community , said — like all the other charters — that they must not pass laws that were not consistent with English laws . |
| 24 | One of these had married an Indian Christian doctor , and together they worked for the sick and wounded , although badly handicapped by the lack of medicines . |
| 25 | They called for the temporary suspension of activities by all political parties , who were further requested to draw up a code of conduct to regulate their activities . |
| 26 | they rush for the spent shells , cart them away for scrap . |
| 27 | So BBC bosses have to be ultra careful about who they hire for the wholesome , long-running show . |
| 28 | When people first come in they go for the raised areas and sit down . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | During the inquiry they ask for the electronic serial number of the mobile phone which is then used for the illegal duplication of the phone unit . |