Example sentences of "[verb] them for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traps should wither kill them instantly or confine them for release elsewhere . |
| 2 | Sometimes , new ideas involve such radically novel perspectives that the lack of key individuals ‘ in the chain of thought leading up to them … could easily have delayed them for … a generation ’ . |
| 3 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 4 | The humour inheres not just in the daffy selection of cultural allusions ( their native French accordion , some flamenco guitar , a few African horns ) but also in the way they take stiff , formal tempi ( waltzes and tangos ) and mockingly squeeze them for their stateliness . |
| 5 | It would n't fool them for long but it would do for a moment . |
| 6 | We get quite used to our domestic dog actually bringing us sticks and balls so that we may throw them for our four-legged companion to retrieve . |
| 7 | But concentrating on the true politics of smoking will help us to see them for what they are : romantic illusions . |
| 8 | National Park rangers eventually managed to speak to the two men but were unable to see them for clouds of steam . |
| 9 | It would be better to admit that these murderous wishes and impulses exist than to deny them , and feel guilt-laden as a result of not allowing ourselves to see them for what they are . |
| 10 | I would like to see them for the Falls . |
| 11 | I would like to see them for the Shankill . |
| 12 | In 1913 he came under pressure in the Commons for his failure to promote an air force ; Samuel Hoare demonstrated the ineffectiveness of the government 's policy by visiting the air bases to see them for himself . |
| 13 | It can not deal with the problems that do exist , because it fails to see them for what they are . |
| 14 | Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend . |
| 15 | I feel deeply sorry for both Boo and Imamu because they both have to prove themselves before people actually begin to see them for what they really are which are two very kind and loving people . |
| 16 | The corridors of the BBC are long and pea-green ( the 1984 setting of Orwell 's book , reputedly ) , and I followed a uniformed attendant through and round them for the obligatory ten miles before happening upon Studio B10 . |
| 17 | This is how they are currently treated when we use them as research tools or slaughter them for consumption at our tables . |
| 18 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 19 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 20 | The man looked at the boys as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 21 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 22 | Julius looked at her jeans and T-shirt , as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 23 | Eddie 's gaze ran on round the room , taking in , as if seeing them for the first time , the stool and easel , the framed reproduction Leonardo drawings on the walls , the low divan bed . |
| 24 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 25 | Nutty adjusted them for him . |
| 26 | The Sheikha usually made them for her . |
| 27 | I made them for a friend a couple of years ago and she 's still talking about them ! |
| 28 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 29 | Since the war , every spell of Anfield success has been set or kept in motion by the signing of a top-class ‘ striker-cum-provider ’ a player who not only scored goals but also made them for his colleagues . |
| 30 | Yes , she made them for her teacher 's as well , they 'll chocolates . |