Example sentences of "[noun] they [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hawaiian they did for a living , jazz they played for themselves . |
| 2 | Many thanks to the Essex teachers for the fine tea they provided for us this meeting . |
| 3 | MORE than 60 people have died and 600 are ill after eating poisonous toadstools they mistook for wild mushrooms in the Ukraine . |
| 4 | The Queen for her own part will have to face up to the fact that , however perfect her public role , she has dismally failed in private to give her children the guidance they needed for stable marriages . |
| 5 | In December , Stuttgart will host the Davis Cup final , in which the West Germans will defend the trophy they won for the first time by defeating Sweden in Gothenburg , and in the coming three years Frankfurt will stage the ATP Tour World Championship , which will supersede the Nabisco Masters in New York . |
| 6 | They had failed to change with the times , so the speeches they wrote for the Queen did her no favours . |
| 7 | Prior to his arrival Sotheby 's ( still specialising heavily in books at this date ) had an unwritten agreement with Christie 's that they sent them any pictures brought to their offices and in return Christie 's sent them any books they received for sale . |
| 8 | Merchants and artisans in the towns normally contributed to the material wealth of the landowner in the form of the rents they paid for their places of domicile and work . |
| 9 | And they presented him with video equipment they bought for a children 's charity . |
| 10 | The crowds have not spat out his name with quite the virulence they showed for Mr Milos Jakes and Mr Miroslav Stepan , the Prague party supremo , in their last days , but there has always been an underlying , almost universal contempt . |
| 11 | In recent months Mr Adams and the more pragmatic elements in Sinn Fein have been trying to distance themselves from IRA violence , and during the campaign they called for talks about the future of Ireland with all parties to the conflict . |
| 12 | Two rather weak governors , who regarded Lugard 's Residents with some of the reverence they felt for Lugard himself , were ruthlessly overawed and changes introduced — such as the creation of native treasuries — by which the Residents acquired over their little ships of state an ever more complete control . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | But I thought : this was the moment they lived for . |
| 15 | Family budgets are seen to be a private settlement of accounts between men and women , men 's unequal distribution of working-class incomes within their households is a right they fought for within the working-class movement and it is not yet susceptible to public political pressure within the movement . |
| 16 | Hollywood began to wake up to black culture , spurred on by statistics showing that although blacks only made up 12 per cent of the nation 's population they accounted for 25 per cent of America 's cinema audiences and were the fastest growing segment of US population . |
| 17 | Laura was admitted to Birmingham Children 's Hospital for specialist treatment where Mrs Allen maintained a 24-hour vigil during the 12 weeks they waited for a liver to become available . |
| 18 | The towering striker put United 2–0 ahead in the 68th minute of a match they dominated for most of the time . |
| 19 | By breaking that agreement , homosexuals ‘ got the backlash they asked for . ’ |
| 20 | There was a special pole they used for the purpose . |
| 21 | Even then , of course , a problem would remain if Local Education Authorities continued to vary from one another in the proportion of all secondary-school places they reserved for grammar schools — from 10 to 45 per cent in this study . |
| 22 | He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them . |
| 23 | Before the second Dutch war they argued for parliamentary control of the revenue destined for the war , and during the session of 1666–7 Garway was in the forefront of the group 's attacks on government corruption , proposing a statutory committee to examine the accounts of the money which had been given for the war with the Dutch . |
| 24 | When the National Rivers Authority heard of the Gold Line product they asked for samples , and so impressed were they that Steve now supplies exclusively to the Thames and Severn/Trent divisions , which both have extensive coarse fish breeding stations . |
| 25 | In consequence they hoped for fellowship with others in the cause with particular ardour . |
| 26 | Beyond that , the White Paper Better Services for the Mentally III ( 1975 ) also set out rates of provision which health and local authorities ought to be aiming to achieve For ‘ oughtness ’ could be read council discretion about what priorities they had for the distribution of ‘ new moneys ’ . |
| 27 | We asked principal carers , therefore , which of a list of symptoms the person they cared for suffered from . |
| 28 | Time and again the Conservative politicians we approached would talk in private frankly and openly about the problems they foresaw for their party . |
| 29 | If they had a voyage they paid for it . |
| 30 | But , apart from the sound of their own slightly laboured breathing as they toiled steadily uphill , the chattering of birds and the rustlings of small animals in the undergrowth were the only sounds they heard for the rest of the day . |