Example sentences of "they [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mass screening is not feasible , but targeting groups at high risk and asking them to attend for screening is perfectly plausible . |
| 2 | When the kids are really young , it 's no use expecting them to wait for Christmas Day — and two four-month-old Siberian tiger cubs at Howletts animal park , Canterbury , are no exception . |
| 3 | Feeding all the chicks equally in a poor season might well lead to all of them dying for lack of adequate nourishment . |
| 4 | For instance , although we are not self-sufficient in milk products , British dairy farmers have quotas imposed on them to compensate for French and German over-production . |
| 5 | Now we have a society where some people — young and old — cling with belief to the system 's formal structures , while others just drift with them looking for fun , ease , comfort , and ultimately a way out . |
| 6 | An eighth of them opted for friendship groups for at least part of the time , and a few grouped their pupils by age . |
| 7 | All seven of them came for dinner . |
| 8 | ‘ I believe that if the Institute were to make one of its inspections , it would not find anything to give them cause for concern over the way in which we have conducted our professional work , ’ Ms Harris says . |
| 9 | You could almost hear them scuttling for cover in the comfortable lobby of a Hornchurch hotel , as the Hilton resounded with a familiar sound . |
| 10 | The advertisement pages of The Scotsman in the golden Edwardian afternoon carried long columns of vacancies for parlourmaids , cooks and housemaids ( so it is not surprising , though it must have been a source of irritation , that male printers hostile to women entering the trade often urged them to look for work " in service " ) . |
| 11 | Their father , Oliver P. Bernard , the theatre designer who had worked at Covent Garden and the Boston Opera House and who had also designed Art Deco interiors for Lyons restaurants , had died insolvent , thereby terminating his sons ' education and obliging them to look for work . |
| 12 | Without patronage , however , political interests withered in time , for the needs of the voters would drive them to look for aid elsewhere if there did not seem a reasonable probability that their present connections might recover their lost influence in London . |
| 13 | For example , some historians have argued that Methodism and other non-conformist sects were deliberately encouraged by employers in the nineteenth century in order to placate the workers and persuade them to look for salvation in the next world rather than in this . |
| 14 | Of those who take the tests , few score high enough marks to enable them to apply for assistance from their own government or overseas institutions . |
| 15 | When James Gill of SPAG informed the County Council of the lack of planning permission for the lake , the council wrote to Mogul asking them to apply for planning permission to retain the lake . |
| 16 | This is just asking us for permission for them to apply for planning permission . |
| 17 | Make them beg for information . |
| 18 | It is reported that they are being given Namibian identity cards to enable them to vote for pro-South African parties in the elections . |
| 19 | He found that most of them relied for information on their nearest educated contacts , the priests and the Nepmen , or else fell back on rumour , which still loomed large in their news lives . |
| 20 | Horse Rangers are involved in all sorts of activities , most of them fundraising for charity . |
| 21 | Rather than providing a survey of English Literature , the ten units are aimed to guide students towards acquiring the linguistic and critical awareness which will enable them to read for pleasure , discuss and write about literature . |
| 22 | ‘ And will you let them go for ransom ? |
| 23 | Particular controversy surrounded the disability scheme , known as WAO , under which 900,000 people ( or more than twice the number of unemployed ) , who were classified as too disabled to work , received 70 per cent of their last salary until they qualified for receipt of the state pension at 65 . |
| 24 | Sometimes they met for lunch or a theatre in London , on neutral ground , and both looked forward to these meetings as if they were occasions of almost illicit pleasure . |
| 25 | In his memoir of the 1960s Ali records how , following the review , Goodwin rang him , they met for lunch , and the literary agent explained that he wanted to start the new paper . |
| 26 | On 3 September they met for dinner at the Day 's Inn on Jeff Davis Highway in Crystal City , Virginia . |
| 27 | Councillors were told that many businesses looked upon the refuse collection service as one of the few tangible benefits they got for payment of business rates . |
| 28 | When bad times came and wages were below the level on which they could support their families , the labourers found that they had to ask the authorities of the parish in which they lived for relief ; in other words they became paupers , who could be sent to the workhouse . |
| 29 | Lindner , who was set to join Leeds until they swooped for Kiwi centre Kevin Iro last week , has claimed he has received an offer from another English First Division club . |
| 30 | If they work between eight and sixteen hours a week they need five years ' continuous employment before they qualify for payment , while those who work less than eight hours a week have no entitlement to redundancy payments . |