Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] them for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah she said she has to wear them for the television |
| 2 | But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) . |
| 3 | The keeping of livestock includes keeping them for the production of food , skins or other agricultural purposes . |
| 4 | No-one could have known that she was going to bring them for the weekend . ’ |
| 5 | She could not make up her mind whether to risk wearing them for the competition . |
| 6 | Their own educational socialization primarily through classics could not adequately have equipped them for the task of the " total " administration of a national culture . |
| 7 | Beth had a love for children , but how she wished she could have borne them for the man she loved , instead of the man she was indebted to . |
| 8 | An experienced producer at a major London agency was recently asked to list them for the benefit of newcomers . |
| 9 | Her duties as parents had been completed , she had prepared them for the future , they could now stand on their own feet , so she let them go . |
| 10 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 11 | He had to prepare them for the study of Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ) , Middle English ( that is , the language and literature of England from about 1200 until 1450 , including Chaucer ) and all the remaining periods of English literature up to the Victorian period . |
| 12 | We have geared them for the charter market . ’ |
| 13 | The most important of these points are three in number , and I have expressed them for the sake of clarity in less technical and exact terminology than Halliday uses . |
| 14 | Mills ( 1980 ) argues that both initial and in-service teacher education fails to prepare them for the task . |