Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Linking hands , they whispered their love for one another , and although they were kept physically apart by those old granite stones , they were in another sense brought close together by them , for it is curiously easier to give your heart away through a hole in the wall than to swear your fidelity between the sheets of a feather bed . |
| 2 | They affirmed their support for a continued US military presence in Europe . |
| 3 | They make me grub for lily-roots |
| 4 | My hands got very cold too , but my mother helped me every morning by baking two potatoes in their skins for me to keep in my pockets ; they retained their heat for quite a long time . |
| 5 | For , on the one hand , they dispensed valuable resources : opportunities for lamb-barrel politics were an incentive to people to participate in popular democracy , to stand for election to a committee , even if they doubted its suitability for managing a complex hierarchical organization . |
| 6 | The play moved over to the other side of the field and they stopped their conversation for a moment to follow it . |
| 7 | ROUND the world yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnson and his crew were off the southern coast of Brazil yesterday as they maintained their challenge for the Jules Verne Trophy . |
| 8 | Many students told me that they only joined the League because it was the correct thing to do at middle school and at university they maintained their membership for the social functions the League organised , such as outings and dances . |
| 9 | Earlier this week we joined them in Hungary as they rehearsed their display for the Fairford show . |
| 10 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 11 | They granted themselves permission for Stonecross offices which was against the local plan , he said . |
| 12 | Where do they send their aluminium for making into wire and sheets of metal ? |
| 13 | They reiterated their call for a popular referendum on the country 's future political system . |
| 14 | They recall his taste for long walks of twenty to twenty-five miles in rural settings away from Battersea , his passion for fishing in ponds and canals , and his accurate enlightening knowledge of birds , trees , insects , and flowers . |
| 15 | They save their wrath for other working-class youths like themselves , who happen to have been born or grown up somewhere else . |
| 16 | They telephone all day ; they run after me in the streets ; they bribe my barber for locks of my hair ; they make my life unbearable . |
| 17 | His daughter and her fiance are left on stage , where they confirm their love for each other with a poetry that Eliot would have once found impossible to write : |
| 18 | ‘ How are you , sir ? ’ they say as they compress your hand for good measure . |
| 19 | Yeah but the the reason I look at the the poxy Hotpoint because they say well , they guarantee their part for five years , alright ? |
| 20 | The selection board said that Gerstner was the first person they had spoken to when they began their quest for a new chief in January . |
| 21 | The selection board said that Gerstner was the first person they had spoken to when they began their quest for a new chief in January . |
| 22 | The speakers have chosen their own topics , based on their own interests and enthusiasms , and it is important that they convey their zest for the subject to an audience , preferably establishing at the outset that the subject deserves the audience 's attention . |
| 23 | His secretary Pamela reads it off her memo pad : ‘ The VC 's PA rang to say could they have your nomination for the Industry Year Shadow Scheme . ’ |
| 24 | If , I mean if we can only , if we can only invite the , the people that are he I mean the , they allow us release for this type of meeting mind you . |
| 25 | And they lost their courage for life |
| 26 | He accepts the view that professionals are primarily concerned with service to the community and believes they use their expertise for public benefit . |
| 27 | Lincolnshire is a flat county , you see , exactly right for aerodromes , and they took our house for the airmen , I suppose . |
| 28 | They knew their weapon for the future . |
| 29 | Erm I think they sent me money for a new pair of sheets , ca n't remember that long ago . |
| 30 | Then they did their bit for the tourism industry — by taking a break in Dorset and Hampshire . |