Example sentences of "they [vb past] 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 | They lived for the moment , and were completely happy . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As one they made for the door , but had two dozen different recollections of its exact position . |
| 8 | With another part they asked for the benefit of good management but without too much external pressure . |
| 9 | In fact , they asked for the practices and procedures of all the agencies involved to be thoroughly scrutinised . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Regulars at the hotel share the owners indignation … they say they fought for the flag in the last war : |
| 13 | In particular , they argued for the existence of ‘ innate releasing mechanisms ’ and ‘ fixed action patterns ’ — concepts that are best explained by examples . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As one they plunged for the hole in the hedge . |
| 16 | They stopped for the night in a small village a day 's ride from the foot of the mountain . |
| 17 | It was raining by the time they stopped for the night . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They entered for the block plan and the Foreign Office only , and submitted eleven drawings in all . |
| 21 | They provided for the abolition of the military junta of commanders-in-chief which , under the original military proposals , would have had extraordinary powers and would have been able to conduct independent relations with any other government authority , and they reduced the degree of military control over the armed forces budget . |
| 22 | The Quaker mine-owners could hardly avoid the site 's exposure to the ravages of moorland weather , but they provided for the welfare of their employees , with sick pay and adult education schemes that became models for other employers . |
| 23 | They provided for the promotion of bilateral trade and for increased co-operation against drug trafficking . |
| 24 | The grass , the creepers , the shrubs , the plants of every kind grew thicker every day , and the thicker they grew , the better cover they provided for the sepoys to advance undetected on the ramparts , but for some terrible reason , on the ramparts themselves nothing would grow . |
| 25 | For those who reached the New World , a special station was built at the Castle Garden immigrant centre in New York where they entrained for the West . |
| 26 | There was a special pole they used for the purpose . |
| 27 | In every case , dried blood caked the mesh cages and the thick iron bars which they used for the momentum of walking . |
| 28 | Stirling ordered the crews to take up formation and , bumping over the rough ground in the moonlight , they headed for the airfield . |
| 29 | Newspapers were quietly folded and they headed for the hills . |
| 30 | Whole supermarkets in the Valley were stripped of their provender in a decorous food riot by the affluent , loading up their Wagoneers with Porterhouse and T-bone as they headed for the hills . |