Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] they for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a single woman living with her uncle , the negligent landlord Mr Brooke , Dorothea has good reason to concern herself with cottages , although she intends them for the estate of the obliging Sir James , having presumably abandoned her uncle as a hopeless case . |
| 2 | But if we keep them for the next ten years they 're a a real bargain , if , if , if |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Well , I 'm basically interested in the way in which education , or formal schooling , has attempted to prepare girls for their lives in the future , whether it prepares them for a life of , say , motherhood and working in the family , or whether it 's encouraging them to do work outside the home and try and achieve in the areas that men traditionally achieve . |
| 5 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 6 | She does n't have a job , of course , so she does n't understand that things are different when you do them for a living . |
| 7 | It is the kind of rapid , critical examination to which we expose another person when we encounter them for the first time . |