Example sentences of "they [verb] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At all ages , dog-whelks feed on discrete , easily identifiable , macroscopic sedentary prey ( upon which they remain for many hours or days ) which not only renders predator/prey investigations in the field possible but also facilitates the maintenance of these animals in aquaria . |
| 2 | He travelled widely in those days , often accompanied by his wife , and they lived for two years in the United States where he was responsible for ICI 's affairs in North and South America . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Remember when long-time lover and former muse Sondra Locke came home to the Beverly Hills mansion they shared for 13 years to find that the locks had been changed ? |
| 5 | ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes . |
| 6 | MORE than 60 people have died and 600 are ill after eating poisonous toadstools they mistook for wild mushrooms in the Ukraine . |
| 7 | Primary elections are very popular with the television industry ; they make for good visuals , and they allow producers to focus ad infinitum on personalities rather than getting bogged down in the boring complexities of issues . |
| 8 | The problem with them , however , is that it is not always clear what predictions they make for particular paradigms ( Alba & Hasher , 1983 ; Brewer & Nakamura , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | Nos. 378 , 382 and 387 received carbon skid trolley heads in March 1948 , which they retained for twelve months . |
| 10 | Then , they stopped for two months to write and prepare the rest before taking to the road again . |
| 11 | Students are taught , for instance , to ‘ read ’ in a different way from that of everyday practice : rather than reading a text from beginning to end in the sequence in which the publisher has ordered it , they are urged to select what they want for particular purposes from different parts of the text , using the contents page , index , chapter headings etc. and moving backwards and forwards within that text and to other texts . |
| 12 | They entered for all parts of the competition , but submitted a Jacobean design for the War Department and the block plan separately . |
| 13 | They entered for all parts of the competition , and their designs for the Foreign Office and the War Department were both placed seventh on the assessors ' lists , but Burn did not put them so highly , and in the end both designs were rejected by the judges , and their block plan , which had not even been seen by the assessors and presumably never tested against the conditions , was awarded third prize . |
| 14 | Well then as the unit got bigger , as I said , the room at the offices in the Lock was n't big enough so we moved from there to Alma Green Infant School , that 's the school now they used for all kinds of social activities during the day and th on that side by the car park . |
| 15 | Law centres vary in the services that they provide for individual clients . |
| 16 | It 's cross country ski-ing combined with rifle shooting ; they race for 12 miles and along the way have 4 targets to shoot at . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And they wandered for 40 years in the wilderness of indecision . |
| 19 | see what they say for ten minutes . |
| 20 | They came for six months after seven day wonder , something had happened to us . |
| 21 | , and they came for eighteen months , two years , at the end of which the quality of the work had deteriorated , price was rocketing up |
| 22 | They lingered for two hours over the meal . |
| 23 | They practised for several weeks using newly-developed 1,600lb armour piercing bombs and specially-developed torpedoes fitted with fins for shallow running in the waters of Pearl Harbor . |
| 24 | In a similar fashion large companies frequently reduce the cash element or where they supply materials to be processed by subcontractors , increase the prices they charge for these materials . |
| 25 | Connor Henry and Shaun Sutton … they raced for 119 miles … start and finish was in Gloucester Park … and it covered practically every road in the Cotswolds … |
| 26 | ‘ They trawl for promising psykers — ’ |
| 27 | The effect of this responsiveness is that they are well able to foster innovation , as they look for inventive solutions to emerging problems , but they are in no position to protect those innovations from fluctuating demand . |
| 28 | They run for 10 weeks . |
| 29 | And it 's gon na work along the lines of well , if we 're looking at a typical endowment mortgage , yeah , normally they run for twenty-five years , do n't they . |
| 30 | They meet for 48 hours every eight months and have a rotating leadership for group sessions . |