Example sentences of "[adj] they [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wanted examples and cases to show that the institutions of capitalism are historically specific and therefore changeable ; in order to demonstrate this they looked for examples of institutions which were as different from those of capitalism as possible . |
| 2 | This they took for ‘ all animals except swine , and swine all the year round in the hay of Plumpton , and during the fence month … in the rest of the forest ’ |
| 3 | Forming a club enables them to enter competitions together , and this they did for the first time recently at the combined Hampshire and Berkshire county championships , held at Reading gaol . |
| 4 | Ewood Park is a lucky ground for them and in the first half they went for Blackburn with all guns blazing . |
| 5 | In June 1991 they voted for the most democratic free-marketeer on offer in a presidential election . |
| 6 | In the reign of Henry III they accounted for the agistment dues at the Exchequer , but made substantial payments into the Wardrobe from time to time , and paid out sums locally for such purposes as the maintenance of a neighbouring royal castle , building operations , the enclosure of a royal park , and the expenses incurred by the Forest officers in taking venison for the king . |
| 7 | how much they charged for abortions , you 've no idea ? |
| 8 | All through the 1960s the package holiday market had grown and by the early 1970s they accounted for nearly half of all overseas travel . |
| 9 | and you were sort of given the time and and and er er you know I 'm sure they paid for the books or whatever you needed |
| 10 | Hawaiian they did for a living , jazz they played for themselves . |
| 11 | He is desecrating all they fought for . ’ |
| 12 | Next day they had taken the mirror and the pottery and the porcelain to Long Melford because there were more antique shops in Long Melford than anywhere else they had seen , but £20 was all they got for the lot . |
| 13 | Indeed , Eleanor Rathbone condemned what she viewed as the selfishness of middle class women who , having got ‘ all they wanted for themselves out of the women 's movement when it gave them the vote , the right to stand for Parliament and the local authorities , and to enter the learned professions ’ , then sat back . |
| 14 | They could also take from the forest all they needed for fuel , building , hedging , and so on . |
| 15 | Trying to explain her husband 's loathing of the Allies and all they stood for , Giovanna had told her that there had in fact been no German or even Italian troops in the monastery and that its destruction had been unnecessary . |
| 16 | The latter can be very influential , since in 1981 they accounted for about four-fifths of home loans outstanding and made some two-thirds of net advances for house purchases ( table 5. 1 ) . |
| 17 | Although the Sinhalese were the largest ethnic group in the city of Colombo , in 1911 they accounted for only forty-four per cent of the municipality 's population . |
| 18 | C. H. Herford , Professor of English Literature at Manchester , pointed out in 1918 that " English " or " English Language and Literature " was " a loose name for a group of studies differing in educational aim , and in the faculties they appealed to , and those they demanded for successful prosecution " . |
| 19 | It is noteworthy that more than half did equivalent or higher level courses than those they applied for at the institutions we covered . |
| 20 | Their timescales for negotiations and those they proposed for dealing with referrals were much longer than mine . |
| 21 | The 128 they made for the fifth wicket actually saw the visitors go on the defensive , although not for long . |
| 22 | In 1986 they accounted for 34 per cent of all admissions and 37 per cent of first admissions compared with 22 per cent and 27 per cent respectively in 1976 ( DOH 1989c ) . |
| 23 | But if you did n't have an A licence , most firms that had got their own vehicles could get a C licence which allowed them to keep th take their own goods in er er that they used for their own practices to wherever they were going to but did n't y allow you to take anybody else 's . |
| 24 | Erika knew the words of a Protestant pastor , himself tortured and executed by the Gestapo : ‘ First they came for the Jews — and we said nothing . |
| 25 | ‘ First they came for the Jews , then they came for the communists , then they came for the trade unionists , then they came for me ’ , he repeats over a silky , mesmeric House groove , gradually adding a line each time , until he gets to ‘ and there was no-one left to speak up for me ’ . |
| 26 | In 1989 they accounted for more than a quarter of BR 's total charter-train revenue — and the trend is ever upwards . |
| 27 | You could n't get fatter than he was in gold , and he wanted to give it all away to the revolution ; he was Malatesta 's friend , and Malatesta parted him from his money , sweet and easy does it -all they got for their pains was years of exile and prison , and a few dead policemen . ’ |