Example sentences of "they [vb past] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scientists working on the jet fusion project at Culham in south Oxfordshire have been protesting today in a bid to influence leading figures in the project as they met for the second day of their full Council Meeting . |
| 2 | ‘ Old Mr Misfortune ’ found consolation for his latest failure by marrying his 17-year-old bride , on the very day they met for the first time , 2 September 1719 . |
| 3 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
| 4 | They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute . |
| 5 | They met for the first time at the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Society in Princes Avenue on the 25 April 1890 . |
| 6 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 7 | When Chuck crossed to the cook tent , carrying his rifle for the early start they planned for the final day , his father was already sitting at a table in the open , sipping a steaming mug of black coffee . |
| 8 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 9 | The 128 they made for the fifth wicket actually saw the visitors go on the defensive , although not for long . |
| 10 | They made for the outer offices , but it was too late . |
| 11 | Trent waited until they made for the upriver side , then charged forward uncaring . |
| 12 | They made for the steep edge . |
| 13 | Under the new arrangements there would be an ‘ intermediaries offer ’ to increase the distribution of new shares by giving private clients priority when they applied for the 25 per cent of the issue that is not distributed by the sponsor in a placing . |
| 14 | It had not been posted from outside or even sent through the internal mail in one of the recycled envelopes Prince Charles insisted they used for the interminable memos that are a feature of Palace life . |
| 15 | As they headed for the first aircraft they were fired on by a sentry . |
| 16 | It was then that they disagreed for the first time about the terms of their verbal agreement and a serious rift developed between them . |
| 17 | they posed for the first photographs |
| 18 | Faced with the classic choice facing revolutionaries between a quiet family life and the turbulence of the greater good , they opted for the latter . |
| 19 | Yes they came for the other islands . |
| 20 | They came for the first lot for nine months , then they went back . |
| 21 | ALISON Hargreaves and her children put in some low-altitude training in Scotland yesterday as they prepared for the high life of the Himalayas . |
| 22 | But in so doing , they ignored a continuing problem ; and they created a new one , for the price they paid for the French troops who solved the English military problem was a monarch who was taught to be French and Catholic , and who would return to her country only when both these things clashed with the prevailing balance of power in Scotland . |
| 23 | Wanting to keep their plans secret , and convinced that ‘ no one would fund such a crazy idea ’ , they paid for the initial experiments out of their own pockets . |
| 24 | When in Washington both Houses , in an extraordinary mark of respect , asked him to give the opening prayer as they assembled for the fifty-fifth Congress . ) |
| 25 | The only possible savings would be from reductions in the number of teachers in the maintained schools , which would come about if parents were to stick to the survey preferences that they indicated for the independent sector . |
| 26 | The backbenchers were making the point yesterday that the Chancellor was not the man they blamed for the economic crisis . |
| 27 | This was not as easy as they hoped ; they knew that , however much it might disapprove of their activities , the English government certainly had no power to get its orders obeyed on the western side of the Atlantic , but their charter , which they hoped would make them independent of England , and on which they relied for the legal basis of their community , said — like all the other charters — that they must not pass laws that were not consistent with English laws . |
| 28 | And when they died and the fleas had finished feasting on their blood , which was by then putrid and crawling with the bacilli , the fleas looked round for another host , and if they could not find another rat , or any small hairy creature to their liking , they settled for the next best thing , which was usually human . |
| 29 | One of these had married an Indian Christian doctor , and together they worked for the sick and wounded , although badly handicapped by the lack of medicines . |
| 30 | They called for the temporary suspension of activities by all political parties , who were further requested to draw up a code of conduct to regulate their activities . |