Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] they for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll do 'em for a penny , if yer like , I got lots of spit . ’ |
| 2 | If I were to ask a school-teacher to choose for me a sample which she considered to be a fair cross-section of her pupils so that I could interview them for a survey , there would almost certainly be a personal bias in the sample given to me . |
| 3 | I 'm very well fed too , I think I shall ask them for the bill |
| 4 | ‘ But now I can use them for a different trade . ’ |
| 5 | and a Services Division , which will support them for a transitional period |
| 6 | So if the carriages are at the right , you must set them for an anti-clockwise circle , if they 're at the left , for a clockwise circle ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 7 | They are costly and highly dangerous in the hands of those who might use them for the destruction of life . ’ |
| 8 | If you could take them for a walk every day , from three to half-past four or something like that , I 'd be terribly grateful . |
| 9 | And you shall not strip your vineyard bare , neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard ; you shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner : I am the Lord your God ’ ( Lev . |
| 10 | There they would meet some others , who would join them for the next stage . |
| 11 | Some lay eggs among the stones , so camouflaged you would mistake them for the rocks themselves . |
| 12 | All that energy for comparatively few sales , but she will get them for the paperback as she is very much the rising star of Black American fiction . |
| 13 | Many writs are already framed and well recognized to meet the cases that usually arise ; you can have them for the asking , if you pay the fee . |
| 14 | You can ask them for a sick note from their doctor , but only if they have been away for more than seven days . |
| 15 | Well we should accept them for the sake of our own spiritual growth for one thing . |
| 16 | ‘ A ’ were with dressable wounds for the medical wards , ‘ B ’ were for the theatre , as they had wounds needing operative treatment , ‘ C ’ were for as much morphia as we could give them for a quiet inevitable death , ‘ D ’ were corpses . |
| 17 | and this is why military strategies have always said we were gon na get we could hold them for a year , two years maybe three , but in the preventional warfare we would start loosing and military strategy have always said along that it would probably be somebody like France or us that would first use the nuclear weapon |
| 18 | We 'd keep them for a fortnight in those pigeon holes because most people claim stuff if they realize where they 'd left it within a day or two and then as the weeks went round we used to take stuff out of there and just lump it altogether , having duly labelled it up and erm record it and used to have tuppence an item if anybody lost anything . |
| 19 | I thought we 'd try them for a change . |
| 20 | We devised a system whereby three dealers would be asked to give an independent appraisal , and we would average them for an official evaluation . |
| 21 | we will pay them for a start , that 's that 's the that 's the trouble with a lot other companies and er it would n't be professional of me to mention names , but let me tell you that er that 's one thing we do make sure that people erm get their money when when they 've earned it . |
| 22 | This means that we can use them for the riding school , muck the out etc … and the owner pays for its feed . |
| 23 | And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand , and shalt be for frontlets between thine eyes . |
| 24 | They 'd hire them for a couple of months and then if they worked out they 'd keep them on , paying them a pittance , and if they did n't , they 'd say ‘ sorry ’ and the guy would go away . |
| 25 | They were left feeling drained , insulted and angry at a man who suggested he should bill them for the five hours he spent at their home . |
| 26 | When the child has gained a number of these it can exchange them for a rewarding object or activity . |
| 27 | He may meet in private with his lawyer , but access to his family is severely restricted : he can see them for no more than one hour a month , under tight surveillance . |
| 28 | When I consider the striking natural beauties of such a river as that at Matlock , and the effect of the seven-storey buildings that have been raised there , and on other beautiful streams , for cotton manufactories , I am inclined to think that nothing can equal them for the purpose of disbeautifying an enchanting piece of scenery ; and that economy had produced , what the greatest ingenuity , if a prize were given for ugliness , could not surpass . |