Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] they [vb past] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between them they claimed to act for the wrongly deposed King John Balliol ( another reason for the Bruces ' disfavour ) and between them , in the absence of Edward on one of his French campaigns , systematically mopped up English defences across central and south-east Scotland . |
| 2 | The callous crook got five years after milking two families of everything they owned to pay for his luxury life in a country mansion . |
| 3 | Finally , independent single-employer ( rather than association ) bargaining meant that US firms could still continue to deal with their own employees — even if they were now organised into trade unions — rather than be faced with an external trade union body against which they had fought for so long ( Sisson , 1984 ) . |
| 4 | By the time of the next possible resolution of the problem at the end of 1921 , coalition had signally failed to provide Unionists with what they had hoped for , and Lloyd George had become an electoral albatross rather than an asset . |
| 5 | The sums which people paid Maples for furniture were very small compared with what they had to pay for a house to put it in . |
| 6 | As many as 35 per cent took jobs which they regarded as " stop-gap " or in which they intended to stay for only a short period . |
| 7 | When children who knew more and less did respond , they were consistent in differentiating their response from what they had done for more and for less . |
| 8 | As one of the group put it : ‘ It made people think about what they wanted to do for the whole year . ’ |