Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] they for the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
2 | Having read both books for the first time , I really enjoyed them , but once I read them for the second time , I saw how little there really was to them . |
3 | I respect them for the medieval certainty of their beliefs and for the casuistical cunning of their arguments . |
4 | I LIKE The Cult , I admire them for the sheer daftness of their post- ‘ Electric ’ output — all gung-ho riffing and ludicrous lyrical conceits — and even found much to savour in the absurdly ambitious ‘ Sonic Temple ’ , where they attempted to sound like all their favourite bands all the way through each song , but ‘ Ceremony ’ is an extremely dull affair . |
5 | I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life . |
6 | ‘ If you invite someone , you invite them for the whole day . ’ |
7 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
8 | Our canvas stretcher-beds were quickly drenched with blood , because we used them for the worst wounded — the others had to be laid on the tiled floor . |
9 | It is the kind of rapid , critical examination to which we expose another person when we encounter them for the first time . |
10 | My recommendation is that we scrap them for the ten year decade of evangelism as a trial period and then think again in AD 2000 ! |
11 | But if we keep them for the next ten years they 're a a real bargain , if , if , if |
12 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
13 | There 's some that are going up at the moment to this pond , they develop them for the next three years to spend their life in the fresh water feeding , and what we 're trying to do here is to see just how many there are in , in the river er as a total . |
14 | He is carrying the map the class have made , which his " friend " has delivered ; he thanks them for the excellent job they have done . |
15 | Unfortunately , for example , he believed certain things which were wrong ( such as the tenets of Unitarianism ) , and he believed them for the wrong reasons ( such as the theistic proofs ) . |