Example sentences of "that they [vb past] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the proceedings people were conscious that they spoke for all Zuwaya , addressing each other formally as ‘ You , Zuwayi there ’ and referred to themselves collectively as ‘ We Zuwaya ’ . |
| 2 | Wind , rain , chemical erosion gradually wear into it and the stone that they used for some of the repair of the cathedral in the years gone by has n't worn as well as we would have hoped . |
| 3 | Enough has been said even in this brief review to make the point that when men wished to designate sanctity or degrees of sanctity it was to the hierarchy of precious substances that they turned for appropriate symbols . |
| 4 | So greatly did they enjoy the celebrations that they stayed for three days . |
| 5 | They were sold in tiny cages by little boys who poked them so that they chirruped for potential customers , for the feistiness of a cicada is judged by the pitch and quality of its song . |
| 6 | So ‘ fit ’ and so well adapted were they , and so successfully did they dominate their terrestrial environment , that they survived for 140 million years . |
| 7 | Instead their lasting legacy and major influence was the legitimacy that they gave for local politics to be reduced to urban politics , which in turn consisted solely of issues concerning collective consumption . |
| 8 | The reasons that they gave for this varied considerably . |