Example sentences of "them [adv] for " in BNC.

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1 Pupitres were adapted from these structures , although it is still uncertain who first employed them commercially for remuage .
2 Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time .
3 It serves them right for playing a game in which even the winners become losers if they try to repeat their success .
4 Well , it would serve them right for treating her like a baby .
5 ‘ Put them on for me , Conroy , ’ she said , leaning back on both hands against the dressing-table .
6 In the late seventies some people in the mainstream of literary study were inclined to believe , or halfbelieve , these ideas , or to try them on for size .
7 Pulling the centre-half back left a gap in midfield which needed a link man to pick up passes from defence and lay them on for the forwards .
8 Call them on for more details .
9 But we do take some of them on for work experience — we have to remember that we 'll always need a pool of new photographers to choose from . ’
10 I am in the process of compiling a book on old fashioned remedies for horse ailments and am writing to ask if any of your readers have experience of any , and would they be kind enough to pass them on for possible publication .
11 Almost imperceptibly the practice began of signing them on for voyages to Britain , Europe and North America so that the numbers of Chinamen and Lascars on ships based in these areas gradually increased and with it the Chinese , Indian and half-caste population of such ports as Cardiff and Liverpool .
12 He actually likes rolling them on for me .
13 I keep them on for the programme .
14 The centre forward , whom they nicknamed Ossie , wore his sideburns long and his shorts even longer — but at least he kept them on for the duration .
15 No he did n't er P C found some trousers , I 'm not sure where he got them from er and put them on for him .
16 ‘ I always wanted to work with a squad of young players and bring them on for a few seasons .
17 Never mind I 'll sew them on for you , I hate sewing but I 'll do it for you Mary Lou .
18 That 's what I 'd like to know said Gwendoline smugly , six buttons all ripped off I 'm putting them on for Mary Lou because I 'm so sorry any one should play at such a dirty trick .
19 Go to a pushbike shop they whip them off and whip them on for you you buy , you know , if you go out and buy one then just take wheel with you they 'll stick them straight on .
20 But that 's for a mobility assistant where I go in and befriend somebody and they employ me to take them somewhere for two hours .
21 I have been able to get on with ‘ getting better ’ simply because my colleagues have taken responsibility for my work load ever since the Executive Committee Meeting in July , and I can not thank them enough for all that they have done .
22 To relax the feet totally , start by soaking them in for 20 minutes in some herbal bath salts .
23 People took them in for them other people what was sick but we did n't never have no dosh . ’
24 Peel carried on playing their records and booking them in for sessions , despite their high degree of success .
25 No — I would n't take them in for fighting .
26 ‘ They probably think we 've come to call them in for milking . ’
27 We have been starved of second-hand cars because nobody was trading them in for new ones , but this should change that . ’
28 Watford will have little time to bask in their glory — manager Steve Perryman has pulled them in for training at lunchtime today .
29 Most varieties supplied by garden centres grow a little too large to make ideal houseplants if you just take them in for the winter , but many dwarf and miniature types are ideal for deep sunny windowsills .
30 Of course , this may lead them to run onto the rotted wood , which will give way and let them in for a long fall …
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