Example sentences of "they [vb past] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ They lived for each other , they leaned on each other , they helped each other , they worked for each other . |
| 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 | Their main pleasure seemed to be in the beautiful garments they made for each other and for their children . |
| 5 | Jessica swung , clinging hard to Rory , as they made for another barn . |
| 6 | Alec and his colleagues believe the military would laugh at them if they asked for personal protection weapons . |
| 7 | And so they asked for English counsel and ‘ furtherance ’ . |
| 8 | They applied for judicial review of the Secretary of State 's decisions and sought orders of certiorari to quash those decisions and declarations that the Secretary of State could not set a period for retribution and deterrence for a mandatory life sentence greater than that recommended by the judiciary , that he was required to tell the applicants the period recommended by the judiciary , and if he departed from it his reasons for so doing , and that the applicants were entitled to be given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before he determined the period and for that purpose to be told of any information upon which the Secretary of State would act which was not in the applicant 's possession . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | If they fought for one side or the other , Standard Oil would be fighting Standard Oil . |
| 11 | Hoarse cries busied the air , and Riven heard the gulls screaming as they fought for odd fish on the quay and whirled round the masts of the ships , speckling the docks with guano . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Despite revolutionary zeal , or perhaps because of it , they sought immediate compensations for the miseries of daily life , and spontaneous methods of attack which they mistook for political strategy . |
| 14 | MORE than 60 people have died and 600 are ill after eating poisonous toadstools they mistook for wild mushrooms in the Ukraine . |
| 15 | Nos. 378 , 382 and 387 received carbon skid trolley heads in March 1948 , which they retained for twelve months . |
| 16 | Then , they stopped for two months to write and prepare the rest before taking to the road again . |
| 17 | Outside the gates of Zhongnanhai , where China 's top leaders reside , they shouted for political reform and democracy . |
| 18 | They entered for all parts of the competition , but submitted a Jacobean design for the War Department and the block plan separately . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And they wandered for 40 years in the wilderness of indecision . |
| 23 | However , the Communists , who emerged for a second time as power broker despite their loss of seven seats in parliament , has made it clear that they will not collaborate with the Pasok leader whom they indicted for alleged wrongdoing during the interim left-right coalition government of Mr Tzannis Tzannetakis . |
| 24 | When Len arrived , they seemed for some reason to talk about nothing but health . |
| 25 | They came for six months after seven day wonder , something had happened to us . |
| 26 | , and they came for eighteen months , two years , at the end of which the quality of the work had deteriorated , price was rocketing up |
| 27 | They lingered for two hours over the meal . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | FORD , rejected as sponsors by the Premier League , yesterday became part of a £1.2m package which will ensure ITV recoup almost a third of the £4m they paid for exclusive coverage of Rangers ' European Cup ties . |
| 30 | 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 … |