Example sentences of "they [vb past] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | On 3 September they met for dinner at the Day 's Inn on Jeff Davis Highway in Crystal City , Virginia . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And so they made for home . |
| 9 | ‘ In giving the little I had ’ , says Baxter , ‘ I did not enquire whether they were good or bad if they asked for relief ; for the bad had souls and bodies that needed charity most . ’ |
| 10 | They asked for money for the child 's family . |
| 11 | When the landlord 's agents and the militia arrived , the tenants offered the whole of next year 's rent in advance if only Mrs. Pedelty would leave them at peace ; it had taken half an hour to get word to her of this offer and to bring back her refusal Then they asked for compensation for the land they had cleared and she sent back to say if they persisted in the claim she would sue for dilapidation and waste . |
| 12 | They asked for chocolate , mind you . |
| 13 | They asked for access to give spiritual support to the Quaker children . |
| 14 | They asked for information in a general way about various obvious crimes that had taken place in south-east Antrim . |
| 15 | He asked what they would like to drink and they asked for coffee , declining his offer of liqueurs . |
| 16 | When they applied for help with arrears , " The DHSS told me to sell some of the furniture or the telly . |
| 17 | They applied for redundancy payments . |
| 18 | They cared for learning . |
| 19 | They fought for land rights and minimum wages . |
| 20 | Forces loyal to Aoun engaged in another major confrontation during the first half of 1990 when they fought for control of Christian East Beirut against Samir Geaga 's Lebanese Forces ( LF ) militia . |
| 21 | They argued for birth control primarily on the grounds that it would improve the health of the mother rather than on the grounds that women had the right to control their fertility . |
| 22 | They stopped for Athelstan to leave messages with Tab the tinker , now drinking away the profits of Meg 's funeral at the nearest tavern , and began the slow journey down to London Bridge and across to Cheapside . |
| 23 | Their next port of call after their swim was nearby Lefkada where they stopped for lunch . |
| 24 | However , when she disappeared into the powder room at the hotel where they stopped for lunch on the way back to London and Dunbar went off to book a table in the restaurant , he and Aubrey had a moment alone together . |
| 25 | They stopped for lunch in Bamburgh , where their table in the small restaurant had a view of the castle set on a crag above the village . |
| 26 | They stopped for lunch at a wayside trattoria and were shown into a shady courtyard at the back , where half a dozen tables were set out under the trees . |
| 27 | On the way they stopped for Rain to buy a silk scarf which complemented her blouse . |
| 28 | And when they surfaced for air , she poured champagne and slipped a Mickey Finn into Kattina 's glass . |
| 29 | They shouted for help . |
| 30 | I kept a wary eye open for any of my old friends , in particular the goldsmith Waller , even as I was distracted by the sight of the apprentices throwing their caps in the air as they shouted for custom , pompous city officials in their fur-lined robes and , of course , those beauties of the night , the high-class courtesans in their satin dresses and flowery head veils . |