Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] they for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Well I 've seen 'em for a hundred now actually , a hundred quid . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 6 | Swan felt very much at a disadvantage , especially when Amaranth told him that she had promised to go to The Times/Sunday Times party with Charles , who had left them for a moment to have a quick word with Peter Riddell of The Times . |
| 7 | You have seized them for no crime at all . |
| 8 | He then delivered a heavy hint of the need for reform : ‘ We know the Germans , we 've known them for a long time . |
| 9 | We 've known them for a while , they 've been travelling to games solidly for years and are better fans on that score than I 've ever been . |
| 10 | We have geared them for the charter market . ’ |
| 11 | But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps he 's taken them for a holiday ? ’ |