Example sentences of "them for a " in BNC.
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1 | I gazed at them for a while and then buried my head in my hands . |
2 | And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand , and shalt be for frontlets between thine eyes . |
3 | She does n't have a job , of course , so she does n't understand that things are different when you do them for a living . |
4 | He then delivered a heavy hint of the need for reform : ‘ We know the Germans , we 've known them for a long time . |
5 | The little girl answered and the conversation flowed between them for a while ; the little boy did n't say anything . |
6 | I waited until the tea was ready then joined them for a warming meal of steak and kidney pudding , followed by a very hot mug of tea into which was placed a measure of Navy rum . |
7 | Seventeenth August — visited No. 4 Commando ( French Troop ) and decided to remain with them for a few days , due mainly to their hospitality and the change of scene . |
8 | You can ask them for a sick note from their doctor , but only if they have been away for more than seven days . |
9 | In the same way , therefore , as they had turned to primitives for finding the opposite of capitalist relations of production , they turned to them for a form of family which was the opposite of the capitalist family . |
10 | Anyone who did n't know them might have taken them for a couple of businessmen out for a Sunday afternoon stroll . |
11 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
12 | There 's a man and a woman sitting at a table by the window , and I watch them for a bit . |
13 | I watch them for a bit , but they do n't win nothing . |
14 | I watch them for a bit . |
15 | A solution is to make the following adjustments and stick to them for a few days while the body clock follows the lead given by your altered life-style . |
16 | With the prospect of William and Harry joining them for a holiday afterwards , Diana was in good heart . |
17 | Show that forests have a tangible value kept as forests , for example for timber , and countries will manage them for a sustained cash yield . |
18 | An indrawn breath from the spectators unsettled both of them for a moment . |
19 | ‘ She 'll not likely be doing them for a while . ’ |
20 | They then wheeled in unison into a shaft of light which held them for a second or so before they soared over the car and away . |
21 | Then , although I did not believe them for a moment , I stored them away in my memory against a rainy day . |
22 | In fact ( the myth persists ) , even if the slim person does not especially like these foods , he or she sticks with them for a large part of the time in order to maintain a trim figure . |
23 | The principal method is the study of hoards , since coins have frequently been deposited in hoards for safe-keeping and their owners have often been prevented from recovering them for a variety of reasons such as death or forgetfulness . |
24 | He presented himself as organizer of reciprocities ( ‘ Am I to ask them for a dinar when you are sick ? ’ ) rather than as lineage banker : he noticeably did not raise issues of authority . |
25 | It was , all in all , a tourist factory , at once pretentious , shabby and expensive , and boasting levels of service unique to Eastern Europe , for no one in Western Europe would tolerate them for a moment . |
26 | Only once did Kinnock appear out of his separate cabin in the leader 's aircraft in order to talk to reporters , and that was when he thanked them for a birthday card . |
27 | Sometimes you could only have them for a day or two before passing them on . |
28 | If I have to lift them for a match of that importance then I might as well walk out of the job . ’ |
29 | However , for a number of these symptoms , more people in residential homes had had them for a year or more : the proportions were 31 per cent against 20 per cent for drowsiness , 22 per cent against 14 per cent for dizziness , 19 per cent against 11 per cent for loss of appetite and 4 per cent against one per cent for bedsores . |
30 | It 's just a matter of hoarding the tokens as you go along and exchanging them for a discount on your Enterprise 89/90 holiday . |