Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] they [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It starts raining and they rush for the car , where they have an afternoon sleep . |
| 3 | His mind recalled the familiar ambience of his trade ; men moving like black shadows behind the glare of the arc-lights the police cars tidily parked ; the flap of the screens , desultory voices conferring as they watched for the first lights of his approaching car . |
| 4 | Ideas , according to Berkeley , are particulars whose significance is explained by saying that they stand for the things they represent . |
| 5 | ‘ Using Moorsbus is one way of the public saying that they care for the future of the moors . |
| 6 | The healthy stayed away , or hovered sceptically at the back of the crowd , talking as they waited for the first miracle . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't think they , or the likes of Norman Mailer and Budd Schulberg ever felt that they were slumming when they wrote for the sports pages , ’ says McIlvanney . |
| 8 | We spoke in earlier chapters of people 's search for meaning as they look for the person who has died , and saw that at such times a sortie into faith healing or clairvoyance is quite common . |