Example sentences of "they [vb past] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Seems like the only parts they got for a young actress nowadays she gets six lines , they cut three and she gets raped in the first ten minutes .
2 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 .
3 They made for the outer offices , but it was too late .
4 Trent waited until they made for the upriver side , then charged forward uncaring .
5 They made for the steep edge .
6 They asked for a multi-agency conference to be convened , involving the Social Work Department , teachers , doctors and health visitors .
7 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 .
8 ‘ They sent two of our men off — and then they played for an extra ten minutes so that they had a chance to equalise . ’
9 Yes they came for the other islands .
10 ALISON Hargreaves and her children put in some low-altitude training in Scotland yesterday as they prepared for the high life of the Himalayas .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Anglers discovered dead fish frozen into the Grand Union Canal when they arrived for a major match .
14 Of course it 's not easy to keep up the smiles in public , as the couple showed in Seoul yesterday when they arrived for a five-day Korean visit .
15 They pressed for a particular re-reading of Darwin to add weight to the older evangelical claim that women had a rightful place in regulating sex .
16 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 .
17 The backbenchers were making the point yesterday that the Chancellor was not the man they blamed for the economic crisis .
18 They kissed for a long time , and indeed there was still longing there , in both of them , a kind of hopeless longing .
19 They cheered for every good shot .
20 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 .
21 They knocked for a good ten minutes before giving up but it was obvious that the place was deserted .
22 so , erm , they rang and they rang , and they rang for a good twenty to twenty five minutes and we just erm , we , we all huddled together in the living room , and erm , anyway about half an hour went past , and then they finally went , we saw them , we live in a flat , and we saw them from the window , we saw them going back to the station you see .
23 But the employers persuaded them to hold off until 1966 , when they settled for a mere 5 per cent rise over the three years to 1969 .
24 Berg implies that they settled for a stable relationship , Frances acting the perfect Hollywood wife and ultimately finding consolation in religion , while Sam 's unspent emotions were burned off in work .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 They called for a negotiated settlement restoring the republic 's sovereignty and territorial integrity .
28 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 .
29 They had all the grain of which they needed for a good breakfast to finish
30 They started for a Communist Party hangout .
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