Example sentences of "what they [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they looked for often — correctly I think — was a different type of sexuality , perhaps more libertine and less guilt-ridden ; but even that quest , if repeated by enough people , could ( and did ) become as regulated and uniform as learning itself . |
| 2 | Typically , the Government have had the courage to concede by implication that they have lost confidence in what they legislated for so confidently just a short time ago . |
| 3 | What they pleaded for was further experimentation and what they hoped was that the new techniques and acting styles could be extended to other types of films . |
| 4 | " They 're being betrayed — what they fought for , what they died for , they 're being sold out . " |
| 5 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |
| 6 | What they hoped for was a future that Swindon would begin , then get league racing and that it would go on forever . |
| 7 | Sure enough , he told me that 's what they planned for him . |
| 8 | Worst of all they leave without what they came for . |
| 9 | And I 've no idea what they came for or what they took . ’ |
| 10 | " They 're being betrayed — what they fought for , what they died for , they 're being sold out . " |
| 11 | They expressed a wish to die in the wilderness ; they shall have what they asked for . |
| 12 | They shall very nearly have what they asked for . |
| 13 | Cos that 's what they asked for |
| 14 | why not give them what they asked for , since you |
| 15 | When he said , " I ca n't believe this is me , man , " they looked at each other , unable to bear that they could not express what they felt for him , but they could laugh , and — it was Pat who sat next to him — stroke or pat him , or embrace him . |
| 16 | As Robert Rothstein has commented , Realism was popular with politicians because it ‘ encapsulated what they took for granted , especially after the failures of the 1930s and during the height of the cold war ’ . |
| 17 | It seems most likely , however , that it was a word like ‘ Teddy Boy ’ or ‘ Mod ’ or ‘ Skinhead ’ which , coming out of the popular culture of working-class London , had been adopted by youths in some localities in order to describe themselves and what they took for their common identity . |
| 18 | I often think how she would despise me when I am driven by curiosities to ask the children what they had for lunch when they were invited out . |
| 19 | In small group discussions , happily married men with children clearly saw fidelity as part of their lives ; although not immune to other women 's charms , they were not prepared to jeopardize what they had for the sake of a night of passion . |
| 20 | We knew what they had for lunch . |
| 21 | Yes , was it because you think that , they , that 's what they had for in the house |
| 22 | And basically they ha and the other thing , right , I found out what they had for dinner the other night right ? |
| 23 | The men worked , but they often drank away what they worked for . |
| 24 | East Germans will get what they voted for , and much else besides . |
| 25 | It means that the 55-60 per cent of the electorate who voted against the Conservatives will get what they voted for , instead of the 40-45 per cent who voted for the Tories , putting them in power for five more unfettered years . |
| 26 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that the majority of my constituents believe that what they voted for in the referendum on Europe was a single market , not a single currency ? |
| 27 | Well I can I can remember when I was a child and kids had a lot of time to do hobbies and a favourite hobby was to make a a garden and I never made one , but a friend of mine was ooh forever making these things and giving them away as presents you got the lid of a biscuit tin or something of that sort and you I do n't know what they used for grass they used to model little ducks and things and he had a piece of mirror to make a pond have you ever seen this done ? |
| 28 | That 's what they want that 's what they used for it . |
| 29 | Jacobite sentiment had become more widespread by the end of Anne 's reign , and also more distinctively Tory in nature , but it was an attachment to Country ideology , and a deep hostility to the Whigs and Dissenters ( and what they stood for ) , which was its main defining characteristic . |
| 30 | If individual purchasers want to reveal what they paid for a company , it is a matter for them . |