Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | MORE than 60 people have died and 600 are ill after eating poisonous toadstools they mistook for wild mushrooms in the Ukraine . |
| 2 | They had failed to change with the times , so the speeches they wrote for the Queen did her no favours . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Time and again the Conservative politicians we approached would talk in private frankly and openly about the problems they foresaw for their party . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | National associations , like the British Boxing Board of Control , were fed up with the mobsters — so fed up that they were willing to pay an affiliation fee to one or both of these new bodies to gain the right to submit the names of boxers they licensed for title fights sanctioned by the WBA and the WBC . |
| 12 | The justification for the reversal of the burden of proof in unfair dismissal cases is that employers will be in the best position to explain what reasons they had for terminating the employment . |
| 13 | This change in female initiation patterns is also reflected in the reasons they gave for experimentation with heroin in the first place . |
| 14 | Some of the reasons they encountered for not losing weight included ‘ I have n't been to the toilet yet today ’ , ‘ I 've been arguing with my husband ’ , ‘ I absorb fat through my skin ’ , ( especially popular with people working in chip shops and serving school meals ) and ‘ it 's the cough medicine I 'm having for my sore throat ’ . |
| 15 | If they 're whingeing because they have n't got quite the times they hoped for , then let them complain into your shell-like ear for a change . |
| 16 | They began to drift into amiable silence when they had asked each other questions about their children and the schools , and the plans they had for their holiday in Ireland . |
| 17 | Perhaps that is why Heather felt more at ease with the likes of you and I than with her family and the friends they chose for her . ’ |
| 18 | When the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales , and the Gwent and Brecknock Wildlife Trusts met council officers and their advisers they asked for an assurance the council would proceed with the bill ( 2 ) . |
| 19 | These are so overwhelming that they stop adults going on to do the courses they applied for or enquired about . |
| 20 | Councillors were told that many businesses looked upon the refuse collection service as one of the few tangible benefits they got for payment of business rates . |
| 21 | Their main pleasure seemed to be in the beautiful garments they made for each other and for their children . |
| 22 | It is not clear from the surviving reports of the Once-Over system if the manufacturers had much evidence to support the claims they made for the CO process . |
| 23 | In many towns they had for generations lived peaceably with , and often trusted by , their Christian neighbours . |
| 24 | Endill was sure she made tools because they never bought any but always had the ones they needed for digging and planting . |
| 25 | Most said they did not find the actual tasks they performed for the dementia sufferer difficult , but two-thirds found one or more of the symptoms of dementia difficult to cope with , and most described feelings of strain . |
| 26 | Nor have they any legal commitment to managing the monstrous forests they created for their absentee landlords . |
| 27 | When other girls , jealous of her looks and the doors they opened for her , jealous especially of the way the boys flocked after her , made spiteful remarks , Sally had always been her fiercest champion . |
| 28 | Seems like the only parts they got for a young actress nowadays she gets six lines , they cut three and she gets raped in the first ten minutes . |
| 29 | But for some , who did n't get the grades they hoped for , there 's abject misery . |
| 30 | But for some , who did n't get the grades they hoped for , there 's abject misery . |