Example sentences of "they [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1987 's Locust Abortion Technician saw them dredging for the very dregs of sound . |
| 2 | Without doubt , close and loving physical contact between child and mother , or surrogate mother , promotes both physical and emotional well-being in the infant ; while cursory and uncomfortable handling , lack of communication and the signs of " non-loving " implicit in them make for the opposite . |
| 3 | These included giving families reproductive choice in future pregnancies , enabling them to plan for the future with a disabled child , avoiding the experience of a delayed diagnosis , and identifying a presymptomatic cohort who might benefit from future treatments . |
| 4 | The aims were to give families reproductive choice in future pregnancies ; to enable them to plan for the future with a child with a disability ; to avoid the experience of a prolonged diagnosis ; and to identify a presymptomatic cohort who may benefit from future treatments . |
| 5 | Neither of them cared for the sexually explicit — ‘ Rather like having an operation described to one , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 6 | There is considerable ( ? deliberate ) confusion about the figures , but it seems that general practice and community services will receive about 4% extra revenue next year to help them prepare for the extra workload . |
| 7 | And all three of them made for the stairs . |
| 8 | Do n't overfeed them to compensate for the fasting stage . |
| 9 | Now to keep them occupied for the journey . |
| 10 | Not only did they need access to the non-arable resources controlled by the nobility , but their ever-growing land shortage compelled them to work for the nobility on conditions which had much in common with those of serfdom . |
| 11 | In 1985 Peruvian fishermen caught around 10,000 dolphins and porpoises , most of them destined for the fish markets of Peru 's capital Lima , making Peru second only to Japan in the consumption of dolphin flesh . |
| 12 | Two boys who were rescued from the fighting in Lebanon are back tonight at the hospital that rebuilt their bodies and gave them hope for the future . |
| 13 | But because he was n't , I worked as hard as I could until dark , about night time , to get them done for the next day . |
| 14 | Was each of them waiting for the other to make the next move ? |
| 15 | Their disillusion with the reformist nature of the Labour governments of the 1960s , and the excitement generated by the world-wide social unrest of 1968 , led them to look for the possibility of social change in local protest movements . |
| 16 | It is that position of fundamental weakness and poverty that forces them to apply for the Government 's student loans . |
| 17 | With that , bayonets glistening , they began to charge , converging from every angle of the hemisphere ; before they had advanced a dozen yards squadrons of lancers had overtaken them racing for the ramparts . |
| 18 | She dared fantasise , for just a moment , that she had some kind of family again , perhaps with Leila as a surrogate mother , the three of them heading for the stars . |
| 19 | Those behind the Premier League shudder at the prospect of them heading for the big time . |
| 20 | The relentless struggle of the workers against unemployment and hunger in times of peace as in times of war makes it vital for them to organise for the overthrow of the capitalist system and for the establishment of the Socialist Commonwealth . |
| 21 | Prior to writing the script , I had made a list of the cast , designated local actors for the various roles and had them called for the 2pm ‘ woodshed ’ run-through . |
| 22 | In Britain from the 1820s all attachés had to have a letter of appointment signed by the secretary of state ; and from 1815 a number of them began for the first time to be paid . |
| 23 | A magnificent crowd of 83 witnessed the ceremony , 32 of them staying for the match . |
| 24 | With this in mind , she had taken Charles with her when she went to see them perform for the first time . |
| 25 | I suspect that they also had scholarly and dedicated teachers and well read ministers and the encouragement of parents who realised that the only chance their children had of improving their way of life was by having the best education possible which would enable them to compete for the limited number of places which were available in the colleges and universities . |
| 26 | Instead , several different groups of biologists tried , each in their own way , to modernize field studies in a manner that would allow them to compete for the ever-increasing supply of research funding being made available by governments and private institutions . |
| 27 | This is shown by the judgment of Lord Greene in Saltman where he said : " If two parties make a contract under which one of them obtains for the purpose of the contract or in connection with it some confidential matter , even though the contract is silent on the matter of confidence the law will imply an obligation to treat that confidential matter in a confidential way as one of the implied terms of the contract ; but the obligation of confidence is not limited to cases where the parties are in a contractual relationship " . |
| 28 | Now Paul this is what I 've found out since you see , Paul erm said to them , Why suddenly this ? and he says , Oh we 've actually had them printed for the last two years but we 've never had the time to give them out . |
| 29 | ‘ If we can keep them contained for the first half then we 've got a chance of pinching a couple of goals . ’ |
| 30 | Let them pay for the kebabs anyway . |