Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one thing to be opposed to discrimination ( and many of them now began for the first time to say that they did , indeed , oppose it ) , but it was quite another thing to talk openly about equal validity of sexuality . |
| 2 | They would lie for hours , hardly moving , before a sudden noise startled them and they instinctively dived for cover . |
| 3 | Another achievement , which both Christine and Bernie are proud of , is the ban on hunting on council-owned land that they successfully campaigned for back in 1982 . |
| 4 | The big Gloucester builder was so badly battered in the World Cup campaign that he had to take six months off work — and he and self-employed forward Paul Rendall lost so much money that they successfully appealed for a hardship payment . |
| 5 | But the social tact of the Masai was most impressively demonstrated by the fact that they rarely asked for anything . |
| 6 | When they eventually went for him , at the end of 1986 , they were pipped by Somerset . |
| 7 | But they only asked for Eva to be found , not brought home . |
| 8 | In my day we treated our old heroes right and they only played for 10 bob a week . |
| 9 | What , what people had , had Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday and they perhaps came for their order on the , or their weekend joint on the Friday and I 'd make the whole ticket up and they 'd pay and then that ticket would be torn off and if they wanted that meat delivered on the Saturday , that would be delivered with that ticket on the top . |
| 10 | They sensibly asked for a new kettle but were told that they could not have one because cuts meant that no new equipment or furniture of any kind was available . |
| 11 | They thus called for a managerial policy to facilitate promotion earlier in life , linked to flexible retirement wherever possible . |
| 12 | Just before six o'clock they finally left for the West with Rose 's ma 's warnings ringing in their ears . |
| 13 | The threefold improvement they finally settled for was a compromise . |
| 14 | But after two weeks of going back and fro to the barn they finally decided for some unknown reason that they had had enough . |
| 15 | Schiller none the less continued his research and provoked controversy by his estimate that , by the mid-1950s , though space heating sales had fallen to only a fifth of domestic sales , they still accounted for some three-fifths of the peak : significantly more than the BEA had ever publicly admitted . |
| 16 | Although there has been a substantial move away from the building of three or more bedroom houses in recent years , they still accounted for 60 per cent of the total housing stock in 1986 compared with nearly three-quarters a decade earlier ( Housing and Construction Statistics 1976–1986 , Table 6.8 , 1987 ) . |
| 17 | Oh yes , I love it , I mean , as a boy I used to support West Ham but I am now firmly behind Oxford United , and I want them to beat West Ham , because as a boy they always lost for me , West Ham . |
| 18 | In his place , and at a later date , they quickly arranged for Roy Williams and John Barnes to extend their Northern tour in the comfort of the Inn Off The Park . |
| 19 | The eighteenth-century revolutionaries in America and France coined some splendid slogans about " government by the people for the people " , " no taxation without representation " , " one man ; one vote " and so on , but after some disastrous preliminary experiments with mob rule , they quickly settled for compromise ; only the existing owners of property should be qualified to vote ! |
| 20 | This point had been raised before by intellectuals and they usually suffered for their lack of ‘ loyalty ’ . |
| 21 | and fly them , and they usually flew for about ten seconds and he smashed it ! |
| 22 | They usually run for four to 12 weeks with one to six sessions a week . |
| 23 | They deliberately looked for inconsistencies where they basically knew I 'd told them but two aspects of the truth , in the hope that I 'd blurt out the real truth about something else in my fright and confusion . |
| 24 | They also pressed for free elections . |
| 25 | They also pressed for a purge of supporters of the former communist regime on the university campuses and for increased student participation in university faculty councils . |
| 26 | One government pamphlet complained how scarcely any of the Anglican clergy could find it in their hearts to thank the King , " and those Few that pretend to do it , have proceeded so Awkwardly in their Acknowledgments , as renders them of very little Value , since in the same addresses they also pressed for " the continuance of those Penal Laws , which diametrically oppose … the Royal Indulgence " . |
| 27 | They made slow progress and as there was no reason for haste they soon made camp again and this time were particularly careful to conceal themselves and their horses among the trees well away from the ride ; they also arranged for watches through the night which they had not done before . |
| 28 | They also raised for consideration the possibility of reducing the period beyond the end of the accounting year in which solicitors must submit their report from 6 to 3 months . |
| 29 | They also asked for footpath improvements to protect pedestrians and other measures to minimize disruption . |
| 30 | They also depended for a large part of their work on clawing money out of the social security system and on getting alongside other centrally funded bodies such as housing associations . |