Example sentences of "what they [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shareholders could also be passive because the manager is doing precisely what they require for high returns on that money . |
| 2 | Far from it , what they say for public consumption appears to be at odds with what they are saying privately . |
| 3 | see what they say for ten minutes . |
| 4 | Students are taught , for instance , to ‘ read ’ in a different way from that of everyday practice : rather than reading a text from beginning to end in the sequence in which the publisher has ordered it , they are urged to select what they want for particular purposes from different parts of the text , using the contents page , index , chapter headings etc. and moving backwards and forwards within that text and to other texts . |
| 5 | That 's all the more reason why you should not be cutting their budget below what they need for next year . |