Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a report to a plenary meeting of Tsektran in June , he said that trains should stop acting like droshkys , carrying people and goods where they wished for little or no pay . |
| 2 | In 1851 George Sumner was appointed rector of Old Alresford , Hampshire , where they lived for thirty-four years , and where their son , ( George ) Heywood ( Maunoir ) [ q.v. ] , artist and archaeologist , was born . |
| 3 | The harbour had stone quay walls founded around low water level on either side of the stream but principally on the South bank where they extended for over half a mile . |
| 4 | The overwhelming majority of Russians — some 83 per cent in the 1989 census — lived in the Russian Republic , where they accounted for the same proportion of the local population . |
| 5 | Shortly afterwards they were outward bound for the Great Barrier Reef where they cruised for a year in search of a dream . |
| 6 | From my own experience and that of others , I knew that books about miscarriages of justice were always published in a kind of limbo where they remained for months if not years , totally ignored by those authorities whose business it was to evaluate and act on them . |
| 7 | The Chiefs of Staff took the unusual step of going down to the Royal Naval College , Greenwich , in the late spring of 1952 , where they worked for a fortnight on Churchill 's requirement with their principal scientific and technological advisers , free from the day-to-day hubbub of Whitehall . |
| 8 | Their next port of call after their swim was nearby Lefkada where they stopped for lunch . |
| 9 | While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand . |
| 10 | said to me about Pauline 's kids her three lads , not the baby like the two lads she said , oh she said er they came to play one night , or they came for tea or something and she goes to work at night you know , she said Paul was looking after them and she said , he said you could hear all this banging up and down the stairs , he said , bloody hell he said they were going mad , and I thought that 's what Tom and Hannah do when they come here , I said your two bang up and down like bloody anything I said that 's normal , you know for kids . |
| 11 | George nodded and motioned her to silence again ; although they waited for another quarter of an hour , it was a vain vigil ! |
| 12 | She thanked them for their efforts but although they waited for a tip it was not forthcoming , so they went off grumbling . |
| 13 | Subjective assessments of pain and difficulty during exercise were significantly less for patients in the experimental group on both test dates than for the control group , although they improved for both groups . |
| 14 | The latter , although they accounted for only one in ten ( 11.5% ) of all issues , accounted for half ( 49.8% ) of all items in need of repair . |
| 15 | Although they struggled for long periods against the same Turkey side England beat 4-0 last month , Graham Taylor — watching from the stands — said : ‘ Of the three results possible , this was the worst one . |
| 16 | The group did not have another discussion about wages for housework as such , although they did for some months follow Ruth 's prepared reading list — an introductory series of Marxist texts , and the issue of wages for housework emerged again through that , in a theoretical discussion . |
| 17 | As each financial year passes , the bow-wave does , indeed , dissipate as research and development programmes meet snags ; as decisions are delayed in the labyrinth of Whitehall committees ; as procurement contracts slip behind schedule ; and as units expend less than they asked for due to similar delays in their day-to-day training and operations . |
| 18 | Might the university expect better grades than they asked for previously ? |
| 19 | The lads with her help , learn all about the art of stripping , and their astounding success in their new-found careers almost ends in tears — but not before some hilarious moments lead to the climax of the play where everyone certainly gets everything ( or more ) than they bargained for ! |
| 20 | Sailors in the US Navy of the 1920s who returned from leave with more than they bargained for after dallying with the local ladies faced a set medical routine laid down in The Medical Annual : |
| 21 | Jimmy Dean gave them more than they bargained for . |
| 22 | If we 've come to guard and received forgiveness of sins , if we have become good followers of Jesus Christ and we are not amazed then there 's something wrong with what we 've received that god should so love , not just the world , but should so love me , that he gave his son to die for me and that was the sort of er discovery that these four lepers made they 've come down there , they 've found that the sight before them was amazing , there was no enemy there , the enemy had disappeared and the tents with all their contents were there before them , they were amazed with what they found and you and I when we come to god through Jesus Christ , we are amazed at what we find , we find forgiveness , we find the restoration of a relationship between ourselves and god , we find an access to receive god 's blessing to receive his favour , to receive his gifts that he has for us , no wonder the apostle Paul cries out thanks beyond to god for his unspeakable gift , but then again these four men they were not just amazed that what they found , they were , they got absorbed in what they got , because they got a lot more than they bargained for , they possibly in their wildest dreams thought they might at least get , get what the cook was throwing out , they might get to , to the dustbins , they might get what was left over , that would of been great , they were dying of starvation , the driest mouldiest crust would of been like , like a banquet to them , but they got so much more than they anticipated and they got absorbed in it , every thing was there 's for the taking as they pulled back the , the flap of the tent as they go in and they see the tables laid out there , they see the food and the drink , they see the plenty , these men who for weeks have known terrible poverty , there might of been a time earlier on in the siege when a few scraps got thrown over the city wall , when the bins were put out the side of the city of an evening , er they would go there and forage amongst them , but all that had stopped long since and it was only the bits and pieces that they managed to forage for themselves and get for themselves that they 'd been eating of late , but here every thing is there for the taking , they rubbed their eyes , they pinched one another to make sure their not dreaming , it really is food and drink in a , in an abundance they could n't of thought of a few mo hours earlier one moment they had nothing , the next they 've got every thing , what was it they needed , food , the tables would of been laden with it , it was the food , enough food for an army and there 's only four of them , did they , were they thirsty , here was drink , here was wine and , and drink in abundance the rags , the tatters they were dressed in , there were garments and wardrobe full of clothes here for them , did they need money , well the tents were full of the gold and the silver and , and , and valuables , there were a sufficiency , every thing was there you know the idea that the Christian life is drab and poor is such a terrible false hood , its an iniquitous lie of the devil , the tragedy is that we have actually often made it that way , we have made the Christian faith something drab , something boring , something for old folk er and er you know , people who are , who are , just wanting a crutch because their coming to the end of their natural life and we 've made it something drab and dull listen to what the apostle Paul says when he 's writing to Carinthian 's in his second letter in chapter eight , he says you know the grace of our lord Jesus Christ , that though he was rich for your sakes he became poor , so that you through his poverty might be rich , god , he 's purpose follows his people , he 's not that we 've a drab , grey , dull uninteresting life , Jesus said I 've come that you might of life , and that more abundant , that in all its fullness and god has purpose for us , and when Paul is talking about riches there , he 's not talking about pounds and pence , he 's talking about the richness of the life that we enjoy its not a case of not doing this and having to do that the other thing , its a case of enjoying life as god purposes it , as god intends it you know if you do n't enjoy your Christian life now , let me tell you your in for a rude awakening when you get to heaven , because the quality of life is not gon na change the only things that 'll change is its la it , it will , it will be in his presence , the quality of life will not change because already now we have received eternal life , he has given his life to us and he has n't got some other special , you know , super duper life laid up , there 's nothing , there 's nothing greater ahead , god has n't got any thing greater for us than what he 's already given to us in embryonic form here and now why if we take on er a , a , a dazzling scintillating new zest and zap when you get to heaven , that life is already given to you and to me know go back to these four men at the moment , they had never known any thing like this before this was better than all their birthdays rolled into one , this was the greatest day in their experience and if they would live to be a hundred they would never know another day like this , they were having a tremendous time , it said they , they , they , they went into one tent , listen to what they did , they went into one tent and they , they ate , they drank , they had a party and they carried from there the silver , the gold and the clothes and they went and hid they returned and entered another tent and then they did the same there , they were having a tremendous time , this was a beano to end all beano 's , this was the greatest day in their life , they were having a wonderful time and why should n't they , why not you know there are folk who would , who 'd want to make us as Christians er and er , ee , put us into a straight jacket the bible tells me even the sunsets free , is free indeed and I do n't see any suggestions as I read the New Testament , that first of all the life of Jesus was drab and uninteresting , or that he expects me as his follow to lead a drab , a grey life , oh its not always gon na be a ple an easy life but that does n't reduce the , the zest and the excitement in it but you see the danger is when having a good time is the reason for living and the only reason for it , you see , if god has intervened in our life , if the message of the gospel is true , if god in Christ has taken away your sin and made you in Christ a new creation then you have every reason to enjoy life , in a sense your only able to start enjoying life now , you may have enjoyed some of the things that , that folks suggest that make up life , but they 've finished , there gone , what happens when the , when , when the wine has run out , what happens when the parties over , you know all about it the next day , do n't you , what happens then , its such short lived , its only worth having whilst its coming to you all the time , but that 's not so with a Christian life , because it doe , depend on just the things that we have or the experiences that we go through , because it is something that , that we have within , it is , it is a quality of life that we possess , because we possess the one who is life himself , listen to what Paul says when he 's writing to Timothy in his first letter in chapter six it is command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant or to put their hope in wealth , those who think that , that er in having possessions that is the secret of life or , or in having a good time and , and , and the rest of it that is what life is all about , he said warn them not to do that , because that is so uncertain , he says but to put their hope in god who richly provides us with every thing what for , for our enjoyment , why has god given us these things , why is , why is god even , he is natural creation there for us , it is for our enjoyment , its not to make us miserable or to make us grey and drab and burden by it , it is for us to enjoy , when god created Ada Adam and Eve and put them in the garden , the , they were told to enjoy it , even the fruit enjoy it , its there for your benefit and then the new creation , every thing that god has provided is there for our enjoyment , but the dangers is when that enjoyment , is the reason for living and that 's all we do it for and were so taking up with ourselves , I am gon na have my good time , I 'm gon na enjoy myself as a Christian and I can do it and you can do it , you become insular and we become introverted and the only thing that matters is me having a good time , my world centres around me and me enjoying myself and me having this and me having that , this blessing and that gift and that other blessing , we become self centred and taken up with our own good times , as long as I can be there in the centre , as long as I can go from , from , from this celebration to that celebration , as long as I can go from this er festival to that festival to this special meeting to that one , I 'm gon na have my good time well that was what these fella 's were doing , they were going from tent to tent , from celebration to celebration having a great time and then the truth hit them they were ashamed with what they had done , they said to one another we are not doing right , this days a day of good news , but we are keeping silent , if we wait until morning light punishment will overtake us , now therefore , come , let us go and tell the kings household how guilty are we , how guilty are you , how guilty am I of the sinner silence , remember how we started , its not always the things that we do its often the things that we do n't do , how guilty are we of the sin of silence these men had known nothing , known poverty and , and , and , and starvation , they were amazed at what they 'd found , they 'd became absorbed in what they had got and now they 'd became ashamed of what they had done with it what was the sin that troubled these men they said we are keeping silent . |
| 23 | ‘ We have good discussions , ’ he wrote , ‘ but there are none of the snide comments about ‘ my Russian mates carving up Poland ’ or ‘ my Commie friends getting more than they bargained for ’ when Russia invaded Finland , that I had on the building job . ’ |
| 24 | But Ben Macdhui has been known to give walkers more than they bargained for on several occasions . |
| 25 | A RAID on a Post Office turned into a ‘ Whitehall farce ’ when the robbers got more than they bargained for . |
| 26 | Magistrates in Southport heard how a shocked couple took away more than they bargained for after visiting the Lalquila takeaway in the town 's High Park Road . |
| 27 | That does not mean plummeting house prices — the old adage about most people simply refusing to move rather than sell their house for less than they paid for it remains as true as ever . |
| 28 | The devoted duo have splashed out £50,000 on Butlins visits — £1,000 more than they paid for their house . |
| 29 | And than they stayed for months , indeed years , until driven out in pain and indignity . |
| 30 | The TV detection team did n't fall for it , any more than they did for the man who claimed his set was never used . |