Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] them [adv prt] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On return to the farm in the late afternoon there was likely to be a further round of gossip and conversation while grooming the horses and bedding them down for the night . |
| 2 | The local police kindly agreed to come in on the act and a few off-duty policemen pretended to stalk the burglars and locked them up for the night at a disused police station at Ironbridge ! |
| 3 | Pulling the centre-half back left a gap in midfield which needed a link man to pick up passes from defence and lay them on for the forwards . |
| 4 | Indeed , Mr Pocklington and his ilk would take small cannon onto a suitable lake and fire them off for the edification of the plumber partridges who came to nest in the district . |
| 5 | Block discounting — a finance house may buy a ‘ block ’ of debtors from a company at a discount , and follow them up for the company . |
| 6 | This compromise incorporates two tiers of tariffs which are likely to reduce marginally the price of British bananas but push them up for the Germans . |