Example sentences of "of them for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing was heard of them for fifteen years . |
| 2 | After about twenty minutes I got up and prepared to leave , thanking both of them for their hospitality . |
| 3 | An indrawn breath from the spectators unsettled both of them for a moment . |
| 4 | Capital-goods imports , many of them for huge petrochemical projects , rose 14% in 1990 . |
| 5 | Every month the authorities are issuing up to 14,000 new business permits , many of them for shops and stalls . |
| 6 | It has won 63 Pulitzer prizes , more than any other newspaper , but only one of them for local reporting . |
| 7 | The husband had a right to dispose of them for his own benefit while he lived , and his wife had no power of disposition during that time , though , if she survived him , and they had not been disposed of , they would be hers again . |
| 8 | If your diary or notebook does not have these , or does not contain enough of them for your needs , buy a small packet of graph paper as well . |
| 9 | Nothing could have prepared either of them for what they experienced . |
| 10 | Midgley booked five players — Strachan and Hodge of Leeds and Le Saux , Clarke and Wise of Chelsea — all but one of them for minor offences . |
| 11 | I lived in one of them for many years and know how far ahead of their time they were . |
| 12 | You might have noticed however , that people can spend small fortunes on themselves , go out to all the trendy places and stand around admiring themselves in their fashionable clothes but find that no one thinks any better of them for it . |
| 13 | The ‘ wild ’ characteristics have been bred out of them for many generations and few would survive long if released into the wild . |
| 14 | Instead , in November 1985 , with the backing of the farming lobby , which feared that controls or taxes would be imposed on nitrogen fertiliser , the DoE granted water suppliers no fewer than 57 derogations , 48 of them for contamination by nitrates . |
| 15 | The overall search for new antimalarial agents involved the screening of some 16,000 compounds , most of them for both suppressive and prophylactic activity against several avian malarias , plus a thorough study of the toxicology and pharmacology of many of the preparations in lower animals . |
| 16 | There was sand everywhere between the knee-high crags , so I climbed on one of them for a better view . |
| 17 | He was in command of the local corps of yeomanry and quickly gathered about ten of them for the defence of Carewscourt . |
| 18 | Billy was not a great goalscorer , but everyone who saw him play for the Palace is agreed that he helped to make hundreds of them for us . |
| 19 | Two 900MWe simulators are in operation at the training centre at Bugey ; four more will be in service by 1984 , two of them for the 1300MWe units . |
| 20 | At the bottom end of the educational scale I remember so very clearly the instances — and there were far too many of them for my peace of mind — where the school had virtually given up in the face of difficulties . |
| 21 | Chris Webb reported a quiet year for the planning committee , with only 78 applications , most of them for extensions , alterations and change of use , although it had included plans for low cost housing . |
| 22 | Then analyse each one of them for a lesson . |
| 23 | Even more interestingly , I understand that even some of Mrs Thatcher 's friends share this opinion and are proposing — some of them for the first time in their lives — not to vote for the Tories . |
| 24 | Just look at some of the people who have managed to hold down the job over the years : Tommy Docherty , Malcolm Allison , Bobby ‘ Rattling Dentures ’ Robson , most of the 1970–71 Leeds side ( although none of them for very long ) , Alan Ball and various sad , ex-midfield maestros who later became senior sales executives ( North Lincolnshire Region ) for foot-salve manufacturers and double glazing distribution companies . |
| 25 | I only wanted to tell you I 'm really interested in the Foundling babies and I hope to visit some of them for my husband . |
| 26 | Each of them for their own private reason needed to live with death at their shoulder . |
| 27 | The lenders of the Consumer Credit Association , also formed in 1975 , were aware of the reputation of some of them for irresponsible lending . |
| 28 | Like Julia , in the earlier book , Beth catches things ‘ on the hop ’ — almost as a student whose mind is more imaginative than philosophical will react to a first reading of Bishop Berkeley by quickly turning his head , hoping to witness the sudden appearance or disappearance of those external objects which are supposed to depend on his perception of them for their existence . |
| 29 | Willie spent the evening with Tom , washing and bottling the blackberries and eating some of them for supper . |
| 30 | Some people have felt that this borrowing from Dorothy and others shows a certain egotism on Wordsworth 's part , but it was his method as an artist to absorb things into himself , and think of them for a long period before writing them down ; nor is it necessary to maintain , in any case , that the ‘ I ’ of a Wordsworth poem is necessarily the poet himself — it may stand as a universal shorthand symbol with which the reader can equally identify . |