Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] they for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I 've lots of ideas for these , but as they are all quick to make I 've left them for next month when you have finished your special presents and they are neatly folded and packed away in all their glory of tissue paper and gold and silver ribbons .
2 Then in late July I had my clubs stolen again I had left them for ten minutes at about 9.30pm and when I came back they were gone and it was at the time when I was about to play in two large junior competitions .
3 ‘ This is a young side and I 've known them for four years and watched them mature and get stronger .
4 As a church architect , I have visited , I believe , all the cathedrals in Europe — Chartres , Burgos , Canterbury , Cologne , Saragossa , Milano , Ely , Zagreb , Gozo , Rheims — ’ I continued to name them for some while as we tramped down the nave .
5 I have kept them for two years and found them naturally inquisitive and great characters .
6 In addition to securing Commonwealth support for their position , the British sought to consolidate their own aviation policy into some definable form , something which had eluded them for several years .
7 The results showed that capercaillie had vanished from 12 of the 56 forests which had held them for 20 years , and numbers had declined in nearly all the other forests .
8 That gives us the potential of raising two thousand pounds , because we intend to sell them for one ninety nine .
9 We 've paid them for fifty percent of the F O B costs , er because they said , Unless you pay us , we wo n't load .
10 And er then we after the war was finished , we continued making them for several years , but we had to transfer it to another factory .
11 We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains .
12 They 've had them for two months .
13 they had to sell them for three and threepence , three farthings .
14 Oxfam sell Crakapax ( they have ordered them for this Christmas and are waiting for deliveries ) which contain pre-cut cracker shapes in metallic foil .
15 yeah , and the tomatoes were n't bright , ca n't get no more of them nectarines , when he says keep 'em for two days cos they were hard , gets after two days
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