Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] they for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have a full staff here but I released them for the fiesta in Palma . |
| 2 | I took them for the shrine in the loft one night , and have them to this day , little brown twists of dried plant like old Sellotape , stuck in a little glass bottle . |
| 3 | He said that even though they had been given advance warning of Sam 's health problems during a scan three months before he was born , nothing prepared them for the shock . |
| 4 | As a single woman living with her uncle , the negligent landlord Mr Brooke , Dorothea has good reason to concern herself with cottages , although she intends them for the estate of the obliging Sir James , having presumably abandoned her uncle as a hopeless case . |
| 5 | Well , the you 've heard , I 've heard some people being nasty and , and they did n't say no , but it was always , not always it was occasionally done grudgingly , and , and erm in many cases of course it was done willingly , you know come in yes please do , and , and they did n't even want the penny that , that you offered them for the telephone call . |
| 6 | We breed them for the course , especially and also now for the sport . ’ |
| 7 | He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day . |
| 8 | But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with . |
| 9 | Oh yes , but he wants them for the whole of the year you see , which is impossible . |
| 10 | He jailed them for the weekend , the judge . |
| 11 | Steve Astington says he was a rock climber and then moved over to marathons … this is his thirteenth … you have to put a lot of training in … he does them for the enjoyment it takes him away from life and all the stresses |
| 12 | The banks want us to pay them for the privilege of making their money from our money . |