Example sentences of "for them as " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The thought of not being there for them as they grew up was too much to bear , ’ she said .
2 ‘ You 'll have hot water for them as soon as we get to the house . ’
3 There were about thirty people waiting for them as they left their home .
4 She searched for words , and was still searching for them as the front door opened and Herr Nordern came in .
5 The Foreign Office Minister , Mr William Waldegrave , said : ‘ The message we must get across is that those in the security services , those working for the state , should recognise that a day of reckoning will come for them as it has come for the East Germans and others . ’
6 We have held the hands of our gallant fighters and prayed with them and for them as their life 's blood seeped slowly into the dark damp earth of the jungle .
7 He followed his robots ( two children as robot nurses ) around , whispering instructions to them and occasionally taking over and doing the tasks for them as he found it difficult to be precise in his instructions .
8 Candidates in local elections can expect their followers not only to vote for them but to campaign for them as well .
9 Without these pupils , the new schools could not of course demonstrate whether or not they could provide for them as well as the grammar schools had .
10 Indeed when times get bad things are often better for them as people turn back to the old faiths .
11 He has also pointed out that the future did not loom so large for them as it did for the Roman historians , who were anxious about the fate of their empire .
12 She insisted on putting out the clothes for the children each morning and preparing meals for them as usual .
13 A SOLDIER who supplied transport for two younger youths intent on burglary , and kept watch for them as they carried out a theft , was fined over £300 by Alton magistrates on Tuesday .
14 There , in a wooded dell called Holford Glen , close to the village church , they found an almost inaccessible waterfall which interrupted the Holford brook on its journey to the sea , and which , for them as for Coleridge , quickly became almost a voice of nature , an abiding , animated presence at the heart of their Quantock lives .
15 Will teachers have sufficient respect for them as to make their judgements acceptable ?
16 The demob was as slow for them as it was for us .
17 Older children and adults can also become dehydrated during severe attacks of diarrhoea , and ORT can be useful for them as well .
18 ‘ It creates good publicity for them as well as being good for the community . ’
19 Acquiring a good interview technique is as important for people employing one person to work directly for them as it is for those who will be taking on large numbers to work for a company .
20 Tubes are therefore the ideal container for them as air is excluded .
21 ‘ That 'll have to be sold and the inside scrubbed and made ready for them as buys it .
22 It was there for them as it had always been .
23 Impressive rock scenery , deep pools and silvery cascades ; the ravines of the Peak District have a lot going for them as interesting ways of reaching the high moorland , suggests Jerry Rawson
24 His news for them as to the enemy was as anticipated , but with an unexpected postscript .
25 How sorry I felt for them as I stood with my images of a future of crackling kindling and bringing the pine logs hither and other rustic carry-ons .
26 And of course we keep their rooms for them as long as there 's any chance at all — it 's tremendously important that they should feel they 've a home to go back to . ’
27 Tubes are therefore the ideal container for them as air is excluded .
28 Although students had a small subsidy , the increases represented a further erosion of living standards , for them as well as other urban residents.a Price rises of 30–50 per cent were not uncommon at this time .
29 Probably his supposed intention was a pure fiction of the monks ' imagination , but the remembrance of a lost opportunity was a heavy burden for them as they watched their rights being pared away under successive kings and archbishops .
30 My winning has done something for them as well as me .
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