Example sentences of "[prep] they [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political uncertainties in the Soviet Union and South Africa , which between them accounted for 55 per cent of the world 's gold supplies , helped bring the price of gold in February 1990 to $425 an ounce . |
| 2 | The decline in world interest rates , the slight improvement in commodity prices and the relative weakness of the dollar ( the unit in which nearly all debts were denominated ) meant that the total burden of interest and capital payments now represented about 26 per cent of total export revenues for the 20 most severely indebted middle-income countries which between them accounted for 44 per cent of world debt ; this compared with a debt service ratio of nearly 50 per cent in 1983 . |
| 3 | Senior officials representing the five permanent members of the UN Security Council ( China , France , the Soviet Union , the United Kingdom and the United States ) which between them accounted for 85 per cent of international arms exports , agreed at a meeting in Paris on July 8-9 to establish a weapons-free zone in the Middle East and to endorse an international arms register [ see also p. 38321 ] . |
| 4 | Twenty years ago , about sixty of them accounted for roughly half of all FDI , reflecting the oligopolistic forces discussed earlier . |
| 5 | He found that most of them relied for information on their nearest educated contacts , the priests and the Nepmen , or else fell back on rumour , which still loomed large in their news lives . |
| 6 | None of them knew for sure — except James Lambert . |
| 7 | An eighth of them opted for friendship groups for at least part of the time , and a few grouped their pupils by age . |
| 8 | One of them paused for a moment , inspecting the lid of the last box . |
| 9 | All seven of them came for dinner . |
| 10 | And all three of them made for the stairs . |
| 11 | Neither of them cared for the sexually explicit — ‘ Rather like having an operation described to one , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 12 | Three hundred of them queued for up to three hours at the weekend to watch all six of the Star Trek films , culminating with the latest , the Undiscovered Country . |
| 13 | In Britain from the 1820s all attachés had to have a letter of appointment signed by the secretary of state ; and from 1815 a number of them began for the first time to be paid . |
| 14 | In January 214 ( 31% ) of them voted for a private member 's bill based on it ( which has little chance of becoming law ) . |
| 15 | It is possible , and indeed likely , that many of them voted for the party despite some of its specific plans and intentions , and opinion polls sometimes indicate that a majority of those who support a party or government do so while opposing one or more of its particular policies . |
| 16 | His mother and a council of nobles were appointed to act as Regents , but in a short time the queen had fallen out with her colleagues , not least because she was an avowed supporter of the house of York , while several of them stood for Lancaster . |
| 17 | He held McAllister 's hand for a little longer than propriety might demand , and the pair of them stood for a moment , rapt , until the surgery boy , who ran the doctor 's errands on his bike , delivered prescriptions and generally did a great deal of donkey work , knocked on the door before he came in , saying excitedly and importantly , ‘ You 're wanted , Dr Neil , sir . |
| 18 | ‘ Everyone else was heading out of town , most of them bound for Leeds . |
| 19 | The old quarter is a delightful mixture , with charming Renaissance houses and quiet corners set amid the bustle of the narrow shopping streets , many of them reserved for pedestrians . |
| 20 | When they first left the house , none of them spoke for a while . |
| 21 | Neither of them spoke for a while . |
| 22 | Neither of them spoke for a moment , then Cassie said : ‘ All the same , I think it 'll have to be ‘ no ’ . |
| 23 | Neither of them spoke for several minutes . |
| 24 | No doubt some of them volunteered for war service a year later . |
| 25 | Most of them volunteered for service in Bosnia . |
| 26 | The Waves beside them danced For oft when on my couch I lie |