Example sentences of "they [vb past] for [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take-up has stemmed partly from the wish of those companies trading internationally and particularly in the highly litigious US to protect their directors and partly because , as Willis Corroon 's Drew Hardie said , ‘ when directors who had had this cover then moved to other companies they asked for it to be part of their new contract ’ . |
| 2 | At that time , we , we received a petition from the tenants erm very much along the lines of the one that erm erm , er Mr has read out , at that time there was a petition from a hundred and eight county council tenants and one hundred and five of them in fact signed it and they , they asked for it to be allowed to keep the erm to have the freedom to decide whether or not hunting takes place . |
| 3 | After the overthrow of Avitus in 456 Majorian had to use force to bring the Visigoths into line , but thereafter they fought for him against the Sueves in Spain . |
| 4 | Liam Brady yesterday pinned his faith in winger Joe Miller to help extricate Celtic from the hole they dug for themselves in Switzerland two weeks ago . |
| 5 | They looked for it at the hospital and at the police station . |
| 6 | They looked for it inside the white car . |
| 7 | Our constituents look to us to obtain redress ; if the only satisfaction that we can give them is to say that the matter is out of our hands , it will not be long before they begin to wonder why they voted for us at all . |
| 8 | He was never found , though they searched for him on elephants while we returned to the palace . |