Example sentences of "they [vb past] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particular controversy surrounded the disability scheme , known as WAO , under which 900,000 people ( or more than twice the number of unemployed ) , who were classified as too disabled to work , received 70 per cent of their last salary until they qualified for receipt of the state pension at 65 . |
| 2 | Sometimes they met for lunch or a theatre in London , on neutral ground , and both looked forward to these meetings as if they were occasions of almost illicit pleasure . |
| 3 | In his memoir of the 1960s Ali records how , following the review , Goodwin rang him , they met for lunch , and the literary agent explained that he wanted to start the new paper . |
| 4 | On 3 September they met for dinner at the Day 's Inn on Jeff Davis Highway in Crystal City , Virginia . |
| 5 | Her brother he had met before and the two men talked about the year 's haysaving and the price they expected for sheep and wool and cattle . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When bad times came and wages were below the level on which they could support their families , the labourers found that they had to ask the authorities of the parish in which they lived for relief ; in other words they became paupers , who could be sent to the workhouse . |
| 8 | Lindner , who was set to join Leeds until they swooped for Kiwi centre Kevin Iro last week , has claimed he has received an offer from another English First Division club . |
| 9 | And so they made for home . |
| 10 | For them it 's the latest … possbily the last great mountain challenge … three years ago they reached the top of Mount Kilimanjaro … two years ago they made for Mont Blanc and the Alps … |
| 11 | ‘ In giving the little I had ’ , says Baxter , ‘ I did not enquire whether they were good or bad if they asked for relief ; for the bad had souls and bodies that needed charity most . ’ |
| 12 | They asked for directions to Walton Hall police station . |
| 13 | They asked for money for the child 's family . |
| 14 | When the landlord 's agents and the militia arrived , the tenants offered the whole of next year 's rent in advance if only Mrs. Pedelty would leave them at peace ; it had taken half an hour to get word to her of this offer and to bring back her refusal Then they asked for compensation for the land they had cleared and she sent back to say if they persisted in the claim she would sue for dilapidation and waste . |
| 15 | They asked for chocolate , mind you . |
| 16 | They asked for particulars ; pink tie made some notes . |
| 17 | When the National Rivers Authority heard of the Gold Line product they asked for samples , and so impressed were they that Steve now supplies exclusively to the Thames and Severn/Trent divisions , which both have extensive coarse fish breeding stations . |
| 18 | They asked for access to give spiritual support to the Quaker children . |
| 19 | They asked for information in a general way about various obvious crimes that had taken place in south-east Antrim . |
| 20 | He asked what they would like to drink and they asked for coffee , declining his offer of liqueurs . |
| 21 | When they asked for volunteers to carry out the various tasks of such a committee , the offers came in promptly from all parts of the Hall . |
| 22 | Another J. J. Kandler piece was Christie 's lot 220 from estate of late Robert Clarke , a pair of Meissen models of Hoopoes , of around 1740 with nineteenth-century ormolu mounts ; estimated at £30–50,000 , they sold for £34,000 ( $51,000 ) to Munich dealer Freddy Reyes of Roebbig against bidding by Hugo Morley-Fletcher on behalf of a client . |
| 23 | They sold for $100 in a market used to paying only $25 and helped to create the ski boom of the 1950s . |
| 24 | Highly pictorial in conception — with particular figures reminiscent of van der Weyden — they sold for £82,000 ( $131,200 , est. £30,000–40,000 ) to a private collector . |
| 25 | When they applied for help with arrears , " The DHSS told me to sell some of the furniture or the telly . |
| 26 | They applied for redundancy payments . |
| 27 | ‘ It would be impossible to say too much in praise of consultant Ernest Sinar and his colleagues and staff at Middlesbrough General Hospital for the way in which they cared for Jo and the family during the time she was there . ’ |
| 28 | They cared for learning . |
| 29 | They fought for land rights and minimum wages . |
| 30 | Forces loyal to Aoun engaged in another major confrontation during the first half of 1990 when they fought for control of Christian East Beirut against Samir Geaga 's Lebanese Forces ( LF ) militia . |