Example sentences of "they [vb base] for [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they qualify for the Champions League ( last eight ) they get another guaranteed £800,000 , plus around £180,000 a point . |
| 2 | The claims which they make for the consequences of literacy belong to the same tradition . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't understand why they pose for the tourists , ’ she said , marvelling at how the huge hoods were wired to flare out in soft folds around each tightly wrapped skull . |
| 4 | Fans of volleyball reckon its the fastest … hardest court game of all … this week two of the world 's top teams Latvia and Lithuania have come to town to take on the might of England and the pick of the nation 's universities … on tuesday … wednesday … and thursday they 'll be battling it out in the gym at Iffley Road in Oxford and then on Friday they they head for the finals at the american airbase at Upper Heyford |
| 5 | We are interested here in finding out what the norms are within a single social stratum and how they function for the speakers : at this point in our work we have no justification for relating this pattern to social class differences . |
| 6 | What the ovules do is they stay in the grasses and they wait for the pollens to arrive . |
| 7 | Unlike most animals , mussels do not expend energy searching for food They wait for the tides and currents to bring it to them . |
| 8 | Ideas , according to Berkeley , are particulars whose significance is explained by saying that they stand for the things they represent . |
| 9 | It would obviously be the worst of craftsmanship to score the first four bars as they stand for the violins and viola and at the fifth bar to weaken one of the parts by division . |
| 10 | But the more closely historians examine the seventeenth century , the more precedents they find for the innovations associated with the name of Peter the Great . |
| 11 | they gather for the rites of youth |
| 12 | The bags were of that thinner kind of plastic they use for the bags that they give away at the supermarket , the free ones ; and now one of the bags in her right hand split and she just stood there helpless to stop them as three cans fell out and rolled across the concrete . |
| 13 | I 'm in London I 'm in the nick I 'm in fucking Paddington Green for Christ 's sake , the high-security station they use for the Provos and they think I 'm so dangerous so much a security risk they 've got me here and even holding me under the Prevention of Terrorism Act Jesus God because some of them still are n't convinced they are n't dealing with some unholy alliance of the IRA , Welsh Nationalists and uppity jocks . |
| 14 | They compete for the savings of the general public through a network of high street branches . |
| 15 | Male black grouse or blackcocks congregate at traditional lekking sites where they compete for the attentions of the females . |
| 16 | They care for the homes and children of the privileged white minority but often have no home of their own . |
| 17 | The argument is that school-leavers are mainly only temporarily unemployed and in the first few months of work are likely to switch jobs as they search for the ones that suit them best . |
| 18 | The common ancestry of the structuralists lies in the theoretical form they construe for the objects they analyse . |
| 19 | which they buy for the pictures with the Daily Star |
| 20 | The service they perform for the beetles could hardly be more intimate . |