Example sentences of "they [vb past] for a [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 | They asked for a multi-agency conference to be convened , involving the Social Work Department , teachers , doctors and health visitors . |
| 3 | ‘ They sent two of our men off — and then they played for an extra ten minutes so that they had a chance to equalise . ’ |
| 4 | Anglers discovered dead fish frozen into the Grand Union Canal when they arrived for a major match . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They kissed for a long time , and indeed there was still longing there , in both of them , a kind of hopeless longing . |
| 8 | They knocked for a good ten minutes before giving up but it was obvious that the place was deserted . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They called for a negotiated settlement restoring the republic 's sovereignty and territorial integrity . |
| 14 | They had all the grain of which they needed for a good breakfast to finish |
| 15 | They started for a Communist Party hangout . |
| 16 | When the meal was over , they went for a late drink , then for a dance . |
| 17 | CAMERA-shy ministers avoided photographers yesterday as they gathered for a crucial Cabinet meeting to thrash out the Government 's public spending plans for the coming financial year . |
| 18 | I think people wanted a change and that 's why they voted for a liberal democrat councillor . |
| 19 | They voted for a Tory Government instead . |
| 20 | According to this view , instead of representing workers or peasants , they spoke for a new class spawned by advancing capitalism , the class from which they themselves sprang — the intelligentsia . |
| 21 | As a proportion of national consumer expenditure , advertising more than doubled between 1945 and 1990 , so they competed for a growing purse . |
| 22 | they said for a near six foot high plant eighteen inches apart , for a near ten foot high plant twenty four inches apart , anything over that plant |
| 23 | They accounted for a tiny fraction of that year 's death toll . |
| 24 | As they longed for a spiritual assurance of Christ 's presence and received it in the Holy Spirit which literally inspired in them knowledge and love of God so the meditator may grow in inner spiritual knowledge ( c.33 , 36 ) . |
| 25 | They wrote for a small range of specialist titles , some of them bright and poppy , others resoundingly self-important , and all of them perfectly arcane to anyone outside a specific , like-minded clientele . |
| 26 | Resting gratefully on his pitchfork as they waited for a slow-moving loaded wagon to reach them from the far end of the field , Seb said , ‘ There 'll be another hundred acres to work by the spring . |
| 27 | They halted for a short time near midafternoon to rest the horses . |
| 28 | There they stood for a long time by a low stone wall , staring hopelessly out at the yellow fields of stubble , where the wheatsheaves were stooked and ready for gathering into the barn . |
| 29 | They stood for a long time in silence , and the others left them alone . |
| 30 | They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore . |