Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was no surprise : neither of them cared much for Granny . |
| 2 | All four were fond of playing cards , and they met occasionally for whist or bridge , either at the Youngs ' or the Lovells ' newer house along the road to the north . |
| 3 | They made straight for Yani 's — the lively tourist bar where ‘ Ben ’ had been sighted in the resort of Kassiopi . |
| 4 | On the er three nine eight , erm , the C E C are erm asking for withdrawal of these , this motion , they asked initially for withdrawal . |
| 5 | With the residents , they applied successfully for finance through the Inner Area Programme to establish the Braunstone workshops on the estate . |
| 6 | I mean they fought valiantly for peace but I , I think that erm the maternity bill I think is what everybody admits that we shall always go down as being noted for . |
| 7 | McLeish joined Catherine in the comfortable modern kitchen where they foraged companionably for coffee and milk , waiting until they heard Jennifer Morgan come down again . |
| 8 | Rooks cawed as they foraged hungrily for food but , apart from that , nothing except the eerie , deathly silence of a countryside in the grip of winter . |
| 9 | They do n't they do n't accept him They came here for years , |
| 10 | Then they came together for discussion and forward planning . |
| 11 | They walked slowly for hours , with sad anxious faces , not talking , one behind the other , like a funeral procession . |
| 12 | They called instead for VAT rebates . |
| 13 | They milled there for seconds , a dark mass glinting like beetles in the light of the moon — and then there were thin , spiked shapes being raised against the walls . |
| 14 | They were entitled to eat after the last sitting in the central dining car , Emil said , rinsing glasses , but usually they went only for dinner , if then ; I could see why , as after the sandwiches on that first day we ate the all-too-few left-over portions of the Lucullan lunch we had served . |
| 15 | They were shaped within a world dominated by respectable values , but even when the patterns approximated ( as they did in the eventually declining birthrate ) they did so for reasons which had a different rationale in each class . |
| 16 | George Bush set the tone in his notorious ‘ chicken Kiev ’ speech , urging Ukrainians to stick with the Soviet Union just four months before they voted massively for independence . |
| 17 | They queued patiently for lifts and ascended through a " Titanic cobweb " to find a choice of Parisian , Alsatian , Russian and Anglo-American restaurants on the first level and a bird's-eye view of the Seine sparkling beneath . |
| 18 | Worst for him , of course , was that they stood precisely for Welfaria : the hated era of the common man that this great beached whale of strident English traditionalism had come to feel so ineffectual against . |
| 19 | They travelled here for refuge or for rest , |
| 20 | The prince 's young bride lay a short distance away beside her sisters-in-law , all of them huddled together for warmth and sleeping fast , exhausted by the trials and tribulations of a distressing day . |