Example sentences of "for [v-ing] they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three , four months went by until only two routes for selling them remained unexplored . |
| 2 | FIVE people quizzed over the IRA 's City of London and Staples Corner bombings were released without charge yesterday as a seven-day deadline for holding them expired . |
| 3 | For plastering they had to be fresh and supple with the green leaves still intact . |
| 4 | Similar sentiments could be heard elsewhere , too , and people in Munich were arrested for saying they preferred ‘ Wilhelm by the grace of God ’ to the ‘ idiot from Berchtesgaden ’ . |
| 5 | Advances in understanding other receptors and in devising methods for isolating them gave a more fundamental approach to the morphine problem . |
| 6 | With over 60 per cent of the French market tied up between them , the Peugeot-Citroen group and Renault could be forgiven for thinking they had little to worry about . |
| 7 | When Xerxes invaded , Herodotus has nothing to say about resistance by Macedon , and this is one of the strongest arguments for thinking they medised . |