Example sentences of "they [verb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was argued that it unfairly penalized those who worked throughout their lives until their mid-sixties , but were thrown onto the Poor Law before they qualified for the pension . |
| 2 | Normally that would mean they qualified for the world indoor event , but Johnson has the option of appealing to Athletics Canada for one of Canada 's two 60m berths . |
| 3 | Depends on on the success of their audience they got for the pantomime , not |
| 4 | Next day they had taken the mirror and the pottery and the porcelain to Long Melford because there were more antique shops in Long Melford than anywhere else they had seen , but £20 was all they got for the lot . |
| 5 | Frequent whitewashing or repapering , like John Barton 's ‘ clean stencilled pattern ’ , is often alluded to , no doubt because it made damp and derelict rooms look fresh and dry but that is the way that they remain for the reader . |
| 6 | They lived for the moment , and were completely happy . |
| 7 | If they qualify for the Champions League ( last eight ) they get another guaranteed £800,000 , plus around £180,000 a point . |
| 8 | It is not clear from the surviving reports of the Once-Over system if the manufacturers had much evidence to support the claims they made for the CO process . |
| 9 | As one they made for the door , but had two dozen different recollections of its exact position . |
| 10 | With another part they asked for the benefit of good management but without too much external pressure . |
| 11 | In fact , they asked for the practices and procedures of all the agencies involved to be thoroughly scrutinised . |
| 12 | With regard to indirect discrimination , the EOC conducted a postal survey of all the applicants to the Society in one year to establish whether or not each candidate could have complied with the mobility requirement at the time that they applied for the job . |
| 13 | The present owners of Pool Bank were previously the tenants , and during their tenancy they cared for the gallery and strengthened it , and now as owners will watch over it with loving care . |
| 14 | Regulars at the hotel share the owners indignation … they say they fought for the flag in the last war : |
| 15 | In particular , they argued for the existence of ‘ innate releasing mechanisms ’ and ‘ fixed action patterns ’ — concepts that are best explained by examples . |
| 16 | This is precisely what Robson , Jennings , and Willis were advocating since they argued for the rationalization of our haphazard arrangements for tribunals with an appellate jurisdiction vested in an administrative appeal tribunal which would be separate from the High Court . |
| 17 | The claims which they make for the consequences of literacy belong to the same tradition . |
| 18 | They make for the stairwell with Crilly firmly in hand , blasting upwards like stiff navy rockets . |
| 19 | As one they plunged for the hole in the hedge . |
| 20 | They stopped for the night in a small village a day 's ride from the foot of the mountain . |
| 21 | It was raining by the time they stopped for the night . |
| 22 | Consequently Paige 's nerves were stretched as tight as a drum by the time they stopped for the night on the banks of one of the streams they had waded through . |
| 23 | Why did n't they wait for the passengers to get off first , instead of squeezing themselves , their sacks of wheat and bicycles on at the same time that others were dragging their possessions off ? |
| 24 | The people loved the play , they loved Burbage as Hamlet , they cried for poor Ophelia 's death , and they shouted for the murderer Claudius to die . |
| 25 | ‘ But before Derry can be made a major European city it 's important that the people of that place are proud of themselves and their city and know what they want for the city . ’ |
| 26 | Yes well I think I told him a wrong , you see , there were two there there are two ways of tackling it and I do n't think the way I told him is what they want for the examination purposes , at all ! |
| 27 | I was just looking at some of the prices they want for the property . |
| 28 | Things they want for the Christmas party ? |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | They entered for the block plan and the Foreign Office only , and submitted eleven drawings in all . |