Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] [noun] 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 | The recent letter of intent signed by AT&T and Novell in which they revealed their plans for AT&T to sell Unix System Laboratories ( the home of System V Unix ) is of enormous importance . |
| 3 | They shared their responsibilities for the smooth running of Zone I with the enthusiasm of those bound by a loveless marriage . |
| 4 | They affirmed their support for a continued US military presence in Europe . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The play moved over to the other side of the field and they stopped their conversation for a moment to follow it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Then they charged her £25 for a letter telling her what they had done . |
| 11 | Earlier this week we joined them in Hungary as they rehearsed their display for the Fairford show . |
| 12 | About one third of drivers said they used their cars for unnecessary journeys . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They granted themselves permission for Stonecross offices which was against the local plan , he said . |
| 15 | They reiterated their call for a popular referendum on the country 's future political system . |
| 16 | ‘ They also expressed a lack of knowledge about what was going on at the time , and they blamed their mothers for that . |
| 17 | They released their suggestions for revising the car tax less than an hour before Mr Lamont abolished it completely . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And a couple of young clerks , that 's where they bred their clerks for the future use sort of thing you know . |
| 21 | An example will serve to illustrate this point : Leigh Hunt was a vegetarian , and praised ‘ in glowing words the cauliflower swimming in melted butter ’ ; Wordsworth wryly asked whether ‘ if by chance of good luck they ever met with a caterpillar , they thanked their stars for a delicious morsel of animal food ’ . |
| 22 | Another highlight will be the Chilean Air Force 's Halcones aerobatic team making their first British tour since they exchanged their Pittses for Extra 300s . |
| 23 | And they lost their courage for life |
| 24 | Lincolnshire is a flat county , you see , exactly right for aerodromes , and they took our house for the airmen , I suppose . |
| 25 | They knew their weapon for the future . |
| 26 | They kept their coats for for . |
| 27 | Erm I think they sent me money for a new pair of sheets , ca n't remember that long ago . |
| 28 | Then they did their bit for the tourism industry — by taking a break in Dorset and Hampshire . |
| 29 | Well you could do your own bands , but you were awful lucky if there was only the bairns about , and they did your band for you . |
| 30 | They resumed their search for a way to anchor the hook . |