Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And they presented him with video equipment they bought for a children 's charity . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But I thought : this was the moment they lived for . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The towering striker put United 2–0 ahead in the 68th minute of a match they dominated for most of the time . |
| 13 | By breaking that agreement , homosexuals ‘ got the backlash they asked for . ’ |
| 14 | There was a special pole they used for the purpose . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In consequence they hoped for fellowship with others in the cause with particular ardour . |
| 19 | We asked principal carers , therefore , which of a list of symptoms the person they cared for suffered from . |
| 20 | If they had a voyage they paid for it . |
| 21 | In fact , his parents had both been excruciatingly polite to her , but that had only made it even more obvious that she was n't the kind of wife they wanted for their clever , ambitious son . |
| 22 | Later in the day they prepared for their expedition into Chelsea . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | It had been posted the day they left for Algeria . |
| 25 | At 3.30am the following day they left for the summit , Wanda climbing slowly by herself while Carlos , who was going well , reached the summit at 5pm . |
| 26 | One day they went for a walk with Sinclair along by the river . |
| 27 | By their very quality and integrity they continued for several years after I had been graduated from the post of Talks Producer to higher echelons of musical and dramatic productions . |
| 28 | Albé was the nickname they had for Byron . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But in so doing , they ignored a continuing problem ; and they created a new one , for the price they paid for the French troops who solved the English military problem was a monarch who was taught to be French and Catholic , and who would return to her country only when both these things clashed with the prevailing balance of power in Scotland . |