Example sentences of "they [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of them cared for the sexually explicit — ‘ Rather like having an operation described to one , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 2 | And all three of them made for the stairs . |
| 3 | An eighth of them opted for friendship groups for at least part of the time , and a few grouped their pupils by age . |
| 4 | All seven of them came for dinner . |
| 5 | I can only suggest , Bill , that you swaddle them both and keep them immobilised for a week . |
| 6 | The old quarter is a delightful mixture , with charming Renaissance houses and quiet corners set amid the bustle of the narrow shopping streets , many of them reserved for pedestrians . |
| 7 | The Waves beside them danced For oft when on my couch I lie |
| 8 | They clasped hands and held them clasped for a time . |
| 9 | In Britain from the 1820s all attachés had to have a letter of appointment signed by the secretary of state ; and from 1815 a number of them began for the first time to be paid . |
| 10 | He found that most of them relied for information on their nearest educated contacts , the priests and the Nepmen , or else fell back on rumour , which still loomed large in their news lives . |
| 11 | ‘ Everyone else was heading out of town , most of them bound for Leeds . |
| 12 | ‘ If we can keep them contained for the first half then we 've got a chance of pinching a couple of goals . ’ |
| 13 | None of them knew for sure — except James Lambert . |
| 14 | SLOUGH moved a step closer to achieving a League and Cup double when they qualified for today 's final against Hightown by convincingly beating Blueharts 11–1 in the semi-final of the All England Women 's Hockey Association Cup at Milton Keynes Sports Club yesterday . |
| 15 | It was argued that it unfairly penalized those who worked throughout their lives until their mid-sixties , but were thrown onto the Poor Law before they qualified for the pension . |
| 16 | West Dorset District Council , for instance , was refusing to house people evicted from winter-lets unless they qualified for housing prior to entering such accommodation , even though in this case they would presumably have sought council accommodation in the first place ( Larkin 1979 ) . |
| 17 | Particular controversy surrounded the disability scheme , known as WAO , under which 900,000 people ( or more than twice the number of unemployed ) , who were classified as too disabled to work , received 70 per cent of their last salary until they qualified for receipt of the state pension at 65 . |
| 18 | Normally that would mean they qualified for the world indoor event , but Johnson has the option of appealing to Athletics Canada for one of Canada 's two 60m berths . |
| 19 | Sometimes they met for lunch or a theatre in London , on neutral ground , and both looked forward to these meetings as if they were occasions of almost illicit pleasure . |
| 20 | ‘ Old Mr Misfortune ’ found consolation for his latest failure by marrying his 17-year-old bride , on the very day they met for the first time , 2 September 1719 . |
| 21 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
| 22 | They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute . |
| 23 | They met for the first time at the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Society in Princes Avenue on the 25 April 1890 . |
| 24 | On 3 September they met for dinner at the Day 's Inn on Jeff Davis Highway in Crystal City , Virginia . |
| 25 | Soon after his call , they met for a meal at Shoney 's Big Boy restaurant where Franks/Schafer introduced him to Burchette , who was then working from home as a one-man security service , and to Jack Terrell , a former operative of Oliver North 's in Central America . |
| 26 | NINE former staff at the old Williams & Glyn 's Bradford Branch were soon talking about ‘ the good old days ’ when they met for a reunion in one of the city 's wine bars . |
| 27 | In his memoir of the 1960s Ali records how , following the review , Goodwin rang him , they met for lunch , and the literary agent explained that he wanted to start the new paper . |
| 28 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 29 | Scientists working on the jet fusion project at Culham in south Oxfordshire have been protesting today in a bid to influence leading figures in the project as they met for the second day of their full Council Meeting . |
| 30 | Her brother he had met before and the two men talked about the year 's haysaving and the price they expected for sheep and wool and cattle . |