Example sentences of "they [vb past] for [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all three of them made for the stairs . |
| 2 | In fact , they asked for the practices and procedures of all the agencies involved to be thoroughly scrutinised . |
| 3 | The grass , the creepers , the shrubs , the plants of every kind grew thicker every day , and the thicker they grew , the better cover they provided for the sepoys to advance undetected on the ramparts , but for some terrible reason , on the ramparts themselves nothing would grow . |
| 4 | Newspapers were quietly folded and they headed for the hills . |
| 5 | Whole supermarkets in the Valley were stripped of their provender in a decorous food riot by the affluent , loading up their Wagoneers with Porterhouse and T-bone as they headed for the hills . |
| 6 | Then they came for the Communists — and we said nothing . |
| 7 | ‘ First they came for the Jews , then they came for the communists , then they came for the trade unionists , then they came for me ’ , he repeats over a silky , mesmeric House groove , gradually adding a line each time , until he gets to ‘ and there was no-one left to speak up for me ’ . |
| 8 | And then they came for the Communists , I was n't a Communist so I did n't bother . |
| 9 | Then they came for the Socialists — and we said nothing . |
| 10 | Then they came for the Trades Unionists — and we said nothing . |
| 11 | Erika knew the words of a Protestant pastor , himself tortured and executed by the Gestapo : ‘ First they came for the Jews — and we said nothing . |
| 12 | ‘ First they came for the Jews , then they came for the communists , then they came for the trade unionists , then they came for me ’ , he repeats over a silky , mesmeric House groove , gradually adding a line each time , until he gets to ‘ and there was no-one left to speak up for me ’ . |
| 13 | But I mean once this strike is over , unless we come to proper agreement erm they know then that then it will be too late then cos there 's somebody saying then they came for the Jews first was it ? |
| 14 | He and a friend had been on a cycling tour of the Himalayas , when they paid for the papers from a local travel agent . |
| 15 | and you were sort of given the time and and and er er you know I 'm sure they paid for the books or whatever you needed |
| 16 | They campaigned for the Romans , for instance at the battle of the Catalaunian Plains . |
| 17 | How they worked for the dissidents , raised money , edited a Ukrainian language broadsheet . |
| 18 | There had been a highly amusing interlude , when they called for the photographs . |
| 19 | And they presented him with video equipment they bought for a children 's charity . |
| 20 | The mystical writings of the fifth century author who had adopted the pseudonym Dionysius the Areopagite were quite well known in Europe , even though they never had the same appeal for Europeans as they had for the Greeks . |
| 21 | They longed for the hats and shoes they saw in the Galeries Lafayette . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't think they , or the likes of Norman Mailer and Budd Schulberg ever felt that they were slumming when they wrote for the sports pages , ’ says McIlvanney . |
| 23 | ‘ You really should be riding a horse , ’ Artemis 's stepmother said to her one morning as they waited for the hounds to move off . |
| 24 | In the National Liberal Club last night , party activists were busy savouring the mathematic soup stirred up by television exit polls as they waited for the results to roll in . |
| 25 | They went into the staff-room and grabbed a coffee while they waited for the results , then they studied them together on the lightbox . |
| 26 | And first , they waited for the outsiders to go , and for the sleepy children to slip off , melt away through the trees . |
| 27 | The expansion of Brighton provided a number of new churches but they depended for the clergy 's livelihood on rented pews and the poor were virtually excluded . |