Example sentences of "them [vb infin] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fertility counselling can help couples assess their need for treatment , and help them prepare for it |
| 2 | There is considerable ( ? deliberate ) confusion about the figures , but it seems that general practice and community services will receive about 4% extra revenue next year to help them prepare for the extra workload . |
| 3 | The centre , which cost nearly £1.5 million to build , offers people with learning difficulties the chance to learn skills which can help them prepare for an independent life in the community . |
| 4 | Let them wait for once . |
| 5 | If you see fit , Father Abbot , let one of them appeal for a judgement . |
| 6 | I did n't try to make them fall for me , because at that time I was n't in the mood for that sort of thing . ’ |
| 7 | Even though mammals lavish such care and attention on their young , they still have the same two options open to insects and fish , crabs and reptiles — whether to concentrate their energies on producing as many young as possible and then let them fend for themselves , or whether to restrict the numbers to very few but look after them carefully . |
| 8 | Make them beg for information . |
| 9 | Emburey and Edmonds , however , made them work for their runs and took wickets as well , Emburey finishing with 5 for 78 . |
| 10 | Crucially , they found it almost impossible to make them work for a wage . |
| 11 | You invoke the spirits of the incense to make them work for you . |
| 12 | Well no when we started when the strike started in the mill , I told then , you know y I do n't know what you are going to do with us , I said , but the way you are carrying on now you are going to bring trouble into this quarry , cos these lads are n't going to give in to you at all that quick , what you 're trying to do , make them work for thirty pound a week less , so you better think it over now , I said , before it gets any worse . |
| 13 | Let them look for this one . |
| 14 | I told an uninterested reception clerk that I had to catch the boat train ( let them look for me in Calais , I thought . |
| 15 | With this in mind , she had taken Charles with her when she went to see them perform for the first time . |
| 16 | But for Allan and Barbara Bland a daily visit to their son 's hospital bedside makes them wish for an end to his twilight world . |
| 17 | and er , she said my eyes really sparkled she said first time I 've seen them sparkle for a long while so I was right chuffed about that . |
| 18 | Put in the monkfish slices and let them poach for 3–4 minutes , until cooked through . |
| 19 | Castleford are unhappy enough about the £145,000 a tribunal made them pay for Steadman , though even with his presence , they were unable to defeat their neighbours , as the second successive Yorkshire Cup semi-final went to a replay . |
| 20 | Let them pay for the kebabs anyway . |
| 21 | I would make them pay for what they 've done . |
| 22 | We owe it to these people and British Telecom owes it to these people just let them pay for what they use get rid of the standing charge . |
| 23 | Cos in actual fact there was a , a lot of sort of de facto redistribution because er some of these account settling things were just so ridiculous you know make them pay for crimes their family had committed over the last sixty years or whatever . |
| 24 | The , councillor I am not passionate about getting rid of union representation , what I am passionate about is union members paying for their own representation , not me , not the people out there , if they want a full time union official let them pay for it but do n't expect other people to pick up the bill , it 's ludicrous er to er put that sort of money in our budget . |
| 25 | Just make them pay for the |
| 26 | Let them pay for everything , which they do . |
| 27 | This may be true of the common-or-garden use of the word idea , but when a philosopher like John Locke says that a man is not speaking intelligibly unless his words ‘ excite the same ideas in the hearer which he makes them stand for in speaking ‘ i it is not just a way of talking . |
| 28 | ‘ And will you let them go for ransom ? |
| 29 | Oh I should n't let them go for any less than five pound a pair . |
| 30 | This is the best I 've seen them play for a long time Leicester |