Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have [verb] them for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wycliffe put them all back where he had found them for Scales to look at . |
| 2 | And I 've seen them for years and years , twenty odd more than that years , beautiful , |
| 3 | ‘ This is a young side and I 've known them for four years and watched them mature and get stronger . |
| 4 | I 've got a lot of my favourite garments from them , and I 've had them for years , ’ she says . |
| 5 | No I 'm actually quite surprised at myself I 've got two Clippers and both of them I found and I 've had them for ages . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If I have to lift them for a match of that importance then I might as well walk out of the job . ’ |
| 8 | Richard , our enemies were always the Tories and the bosses and we have fought them for everything we got . |
| 9 | yeah , he looks like he 's taken them for protection cos he 's like and no one will come near with them cos they 're like , really if they 'd see ya |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mum always opened the letters but I had to read them for her . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) . |
| 14 | Perhaps because she 'd dressed them for winter ? |
| 15 | ‘ After I 've boiled them for stock of course . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ To witch a mother 's face as they 're read back to her , even though she 's read them for herself … the parent I was sitting with was shaking her head and crying . |