Example sentences of "they [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | In particular , they argued for the existence of ‘ innate releasing mechanisms ’ and ‘ fixed action patterns ’ — concepts that are best explained by examples . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | As one they plunged for the hole in the hedge . |
| 34 | They stopped for the night in a small village a day 's ride from the foot of the mountain . |
| 35 | It was raining by the time they stopped for the night . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | They entered for the block plan and the Foreign Office only , and submitted eleven drawings in all . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | The party machines were crooked , but at least they provided for the to-and-fro of political patronage in ways that left the mayor , as chief executive , relatively free to run the city . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | They provided for the promotion of bilateral trade and for increased co-operation against drug trafficking . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | In every case , dried blood caked the mesh cages and the thick iron bars which they used for the momentum of walking . |
| 47 | There was a special pole they used for the purpose . |
| 48 | As they headed for the first aircraft they were fired on by a sentry . |
| 49 | Stirling ordered the crews to take up formation and , bumping over the rough ground in the moonlight , they headed for the airfield . |
| 50 | Newspapers were quietly folded and they headed for the hills . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | They headed for the car park outside . |
| 53 | you know they went and they tried for the erm flying business . |
| 54 | It was then that they disagreed for the first time about the terms of their verbal agreement and a serious rift developed between them . |
| 55 | they posed for the first photographs |
| 56 | so they phoned for the doctor very quick , quick , quick |
| 57 | Faced with the classic choice facing revolutionaries between a quiet family life and the turbulence of the greater good , they opted for the latter . |
| 58 | Erika knew the words of a Protestant pastor , himself tortured and executed by the Gestapo : ‘ First they came for the Jews — and we said nothing . |
| 59 | Then they came for the Communists — and we said nothing . |
| 60 | Then they came for the Socialists — and we said nothing . |