Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] for [det] " in BNC.

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1 The towering striker put United 2–0 ahead in the 68th minute of a match they dominated for most of the time .
2 By their very quality and integrity they continued for several years after I had been graduated from the post of Talks Producer to higher echelons of musical and dramatic productions .
3 The question is whether the ‘ power ’ referred to was the power to write poetry ; for though the Poems In Two Volumes ( 1807 ) are of high quality they mark for most people the end of Wordsworth 's poetic life .
4 Even that did n't alter the respect they had for each other .
5 Council , although , the amount of money they give for this kind of research is pretty sparse !
6 In a similar fashion large companies frequently reduce the cash element or where they supply materials to be processed by subcontractors , increase the prices they charge for these materials .
7 It was a memorable tour by the Pakistanis and the bottom line must be the magnificent spectacle of cricket they provided for all who watched them .
8 The word they use for this ( berani ) is Malay but , more commonly , they simply negate the word fearful .
9 How little reason they had for this view we shall soon discover .
10 When they left the restaurant they stood for some moments surveying the view of Prague , its many spires , red-roofed buildings , with a green dome here , the Vltava river with some of its bridges there , the Charles Bridge in particular Then , ‘ Shall we walk the rest of the way down ? ’
11 Their main pleasure seemed to be in the beautiful garments they made for each other and for their children .
12 ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes .
13 We will increase the time they have for each patient by reversing the financial pressures to take on too many patients .
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