Example sentences of "of they [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty years ago , about sixty of them accounted for roughly half of all FDI , reflecting the oligopolistic forces discussed earlier . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | None of them knew for sure — except James Lambert . |
| 4 | An eighth of them opted for friendship groups for at least part of the time , and a few grouped their pupils by age . |
| 5 | One of them paused for a moment , inspecting the lid of the last box . |
| 6 | All seven of them came for dinner . |
| 7 | And all three of them made for the stairs . |
| 8 | Neither of them cared for the sexually explicit — ‘ Rather like having an operation described to one , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In January 214 ( 31% ) of them voted for a private member 's bill based on it ( which has little chance of becoming law ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Everyone else was heading out of town , most of them bound for Leeds . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When they first left the house , none of them spoke for a while . |
| 18 | Neither of them spoke for a while . |
| 19 | Neither of them spoke for a moment , then Cassie said : ‘ All the same , I think it 'll have to be ‘ no ’ . |
| 20 | Neither of them spoke for several minutes . |
| 21 | No doubt some of them volunteered for war service a year later . |
| 22 | Most of them volunteered for service in Bosnia . |