Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bruce 's forces were defeated first in Methven wood by the English , and then beside Loch Tay by Comyn 's uncle , the Lord of Lorn The king 's sister and the Countess of Buchan who had crowned him were dragged out of sanctuary where they had been sent for safety , and exhibited in cages hanging from castle walls at Roxburgh and Berwick . |
| 2 | Uscfrea and Yffi died in infancy in Gaul among the Franks , where they had been sent for greater safety ( HE 11 , 20 ) . |
| 3 | The sixteen paintings seem likely to remain with the Uffizi , where they have been stored for some time . |
| 4 | Olives are grown in many Mediterranean countries , where they have been cultivated for centuries and have been an important trading crop since ancient times . |
| 5 | But although they had been settled for the moment the two great political problems of the next half-century had already been foreshadowed : first , the tensions within the Angevin family ; second , the feudal question of the relationship between lord and vassal , between Capetian and Angevin . |
| 6 | Although they have been developed for acrylic painters , I 'm sure they are ideal for oil painters too , as they can be cleaned in turpentine overnight , then used for acrylic painting the very next day . |
| 7 | Although they have been known for many years their evolutionary position is still hotly debated . |
| 8 | They may not have found quite the soulmate in each other that they had been looking for , but their relationship has made up for it in other ways . |
| 9 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 10 | His wife now feared that they had been punished for his presumption . |
| 11 | The UAE news agency WAM reported that they had been expelled for " activities which harm relations between the two countries including the fabrication of false reports about the Sudanese community in the UAE " . |
| 12 | A judge told William Sim and David Todd that they had been playing for high stakes and had to pay the penalty . |
| 13 | The idea of them having to bring fortnightly evidence that they have been looking for work when in the majority of cases they are not even permitted onto premises to ask for a job suggests an obvious indifference on the part of the policy makers . |
| 14 | " I have been connected with different unions for this last twenty years " , he declared to the Royal Commission on Labour in 1892 , " but I am sorry to state that they have been formed for the benefit of one man , for he has generally cleared out with the funds " . |
| 15 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 16 | Often these can provide extremely useful teaching material , despite the fact that they have been produced for the general public , rather than with a school 's audience in mind . |
| 17 | Items generated internally would be recorded once they had been authorised for issue . |
| 18 | Yes er erm my instructions are that all persons are accounted for in the premises and er once they 've been accounted for er then it was safe for other officers , i.e the C I D or Superintendent to go to that yes and they would not have been allowed in had I not received instructions that the house was secure and all persons accounted for . |
| 19 | A The law allows any couple to seek a divorce on the grounds of the irretrievable breakdown of marriage once they have been separated for two years . |
| 20 | This is a firm and they 've been going for a number of years . |
| 21 | The other thing we do sort of every now and then , and next time will be Easter , we actually have some people in costume who actually reoccupy the house over Waster weekend in this case as as the household of William and they 've been coming for a long time now and they 've got set into the set into their roles quite well . |
| 22 | And they have been rewarded for it . |
| 23 | It will be a most welcome first for Derry should they win the Sam Maguire Cup and they have been preparing for their big day with rigorous training sessions under the watchful eye of manager Eamon Coleman who this weekend will outline his strategy in secret conclave with his players . |
| 24 | But few dogs make better companions than a well trained Shepherd , and they have been used for a wide variety of tasks , aside from their traditional role of protecting flocks of sheep . |
| 25 | The third she found broken , knocked over on to its side , the water dripping from a puddle on the windowsill on to a seat below and through that on to the floor , and the flowers scattered and brown-edged , as if they 'd been picked for their beauty and freshness by a little girl and then loosed regardlessly on the path from her sticky hands as she ran off to do something else . |
| 26 | More important is the fact that many of the draft 's boldest strokes would seem a lot more realistic if they had been destined for Mark Fisher and a Labour government . |
| 27 | By searching for flashes repeating at exactly the same rate as the radio pulses , they were able to investigate much fainter pulsations than if they had been looking for pulses occurring at an unknown rate . |
| 28 | There was no evidence as to what the Perots ' attitude would have been if they had been asked for more than $2.5m. for Caliban . |
| 29 | Yet they were now learning to kiss as if they had been made for one another , she thought in panic . |
| 30 | She did n't know if they had been driving for minutes or days . |