Example sentences of "for [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many people birds become an obsession — but for most they are but one part of the whole countryside experience . |
| 2 | Examples are known at Great Chesterford , Camerton , Margidunum and Droitwich , among others.59 But these structures on the whole resemble the familiar winged-corridor villas of the countryside , a building style which was restricted neither to Britain nor entirely to the countryside.60 Care must therefore be observed in trying to identify them as the residences of minor provincial officials , for obviously they might be no more than the farmhouses of local landowners and in degree little different from a normal villa . |
| 3 | Furthermore , although this action takes place in a local congregation , it is the worship of the whole people of God — the living and the dead , the Church militant and triumphant , for together they constitute the body of Christ . |
| 4 | The narrative method they eventually choose is ‘ dialogic ’ in the most literal sense , for together they dictate the story directly into their computer . |
| 5 | Still , it appeared her advent had summoned a little luck into his life , for suddenly they began to discover plentiful growths of grass potatoes , forest leeks and turtle-berries , a welcome change from the stringy little rabbits and bitter roots they had eaten until then . |
| 6 | All fords of the Esk , including Kirkandrews , were guarded on the English side by Graham peel-towers ; and though these would not be strong enough to hold up three thousand from crossing for long they could send warning back to the English authorities if so inclined . |
| 7 | The style of the earliest red-figure does not differ from that of black-figure , and for long they flourished side by side ; but the new technique was to prove better suited than the old to new ideas of drawing and composition that developed as part of the general late sixth-century movement which undermined the conventions of archaic art . |
| 8 | He said , ‘ I must return it to the half-mortals , for only they in all the worlds can keep it safe now . ’ ’ |
| 9 | But it is the practitioners themselves who can do this most successfully , for only they carry authority with their peers . |
| 10 | Only John and Nora could see it , for only they knew of the terrible demand that would sooner or later be made on their resources — and it was going to be well over the hundred thousand that John had estimated . |
| 11 | ‘ Mme Verard , ’ he wrote , ‘ for so they called her , in order to pay her that honour due to her staunchness and fidelity ( though the union had never been blessed in God 's sight ) , had heard among her people that they planned to fall upon the settlers and massacre them in their beds one moonlit night . |
| 12 | In Manders v. Williams , brewers supplied porter in casks to a publican on condition that he returned the empty casks ; held , they could maintain trover against a sheriff who took the casks in execution for the publican 's debts , for directly they were emptied the right to immediate possession was in the brewers , the publican becoming a mere bailee at will . |
| 13 | Cos you 've got to allow for like they might not have done it before . |
| 14 | For once they are dancing to our music . ’ |
| 15 | For once they managed to evade the searchlights , dodge the guard-dogs , tunnel under the barbed wire and make it back to the sanctuary of their bunks before Stein and the Stalag Squad knew they were gone . |
| 16 | Whitelaw turned red , said nothing , but for once they were absent . |
| 17 | It was a Saturday , their father was sleeping in , as were their three elder brothers , so for once they had some time to play by themselves , which they did in the yard . |
| 18 | You know what I think about nuns , but for once they might do something useful . " |
| 19 | It will be only their fourth semi-final in the cup but for once they wo n't be the underdogs . |
| 20 | For once they had him by the balls . |
| 21 | For usually they say , rather tentatively , that things are as specified in the wording which follows . |
| 22 | But it is important for people to understand that this is a job they are doing , and for both they and the professionals involved to realise its significance . |
| 23 | PLZ ARE Londoner DJ Pogo and ex-pat US rappers Regi and Fredi , and is a debut for both them and the GFTJ label . |
| 24 | At a lunch and presentation event at Speke Community Comprehensive School , Compact director Mike McCann told businesses that the partnership paid dividends for both them and the young people involved . |
| 25 | The growth of user-subcultures takes on enormous importance , and not only those associated with deviant youth groups : the British audience for American Country music , the Adult-Orientated Rock audience , successive rock 'n' roll revivals , swing band enthusiasts , and many others , would repay attention , for often they use mass-media products , perhaps radically shifting the original meanings . |
| 26 | ‘ I am not so complacent that I would say they wo n't become a formidable competitor but for now they are not , ’ Jonathan Martin , head of sport at the BBC , said . |
| 27 | For now they sit like shareholders at the annual general meeting of a company whose profits have fallen on last year 's . |
| 28 | The group would be more than spectators for now they have to make active decisions . |
| 29 | But the meaning has changed , for now they are included in ‘ dramatic time ’ and are much less protected . |
| 30 | She began then to feel an odd sympathy and affinity with Marcus , who entered the house so quietly ( for now they left the door open for Pat 's visitors ) and stepped so noiselessly up the stairs . |