Example sentences of "[verb] them [adv prt] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He blew a lot of his money on gambling , even slot machines , and buying cars before he got bored with them and sold them off for a fraction of the price he paid for them . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Basic computer keyboard skills have to be there — we would n't want to go the lengths of having to train them on that — but training on our specialist software means bringing them in for a week and we 'll probably bring them in every three months to keep updating them . ’ |
| 3 | Windowboxes and other containers often begin to run out of flower power towards the end of summer , but it is usually possible to give them a boost to sustain interest until it is time to plant them up for a spring display . |
| 4 | Well , she her , her sleeping habits during the day change to afternoons , and , well today she 's been she had about two hours this afternoon , so if we did our normal and gave her tea at five o'clock , and send them up for a bath at half past six , there 's no way she 'd be asleep . |
| 5 | Invited them out for a drink ? ’ |
| 6 | I 've got a continuation shot , well what I shall do is just try and line them up for a rush down to , which is not bad . |
| 7 | They never were , and war in 1879 cut their value , many holders selling them off for a pittance . |
| 8 | Yeah , well I 've still got the other two but I do n't know whether Brian and Pauline are going to want them back , I mean they 've just , I 've had them back for a craft fair . |
| 9 | Millions Of Honey opened Saturday night with a sparky set of robust , melodic guitar songs that have toughened and matured over the last year of line-up shuffles , and should justly set them up for a spot of national service . |
| 10 | I 'm breaking them in for a horse . |
| 11 | Well , she had some Holy Water in it , and she used to spray it about , and it used to keep them out for a bit , you know . |
| 12 | It is also at least arguable that these sections of the UCTA prevent the seller from imposing an obligation on the buyer to permit the seller to exercise the options of alteration of the goods or taking them back for a refund , because such actions by the seller would be in breach of his warranty of quiet possession . |
| 13 | If we can sort of get them out for a night or even if they get back at twelve . |
| 14 | A government in disarray , an unpopular opposition , they say , will let them in for a taste of real power . |
| 15 | The children did n't understand at first , but when it was later explained to them , they were enormously proud that she should have singled them out for a visit . |
| 16 | It is acceptable to ask them over for a meal they are not expected to be able to manage without a caring woman . |
| 17 | Sometimes I managed to block them out for a while , then something would happen to trigger them back — a comment or something on TV . |