Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] them for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could hardly thank them for the tears in her eyes . |
| 2 | Almost that , and I want to say that I have some sympathy for the lady who has children and just could n't entertain them for the day . |
| 3 | We said we would n't charge them for the stage blocks . |
| 4 | these are my children , I would n't harm them for the world . |
| 5 | The difference being , of course , that in those days the phenomenon of semi-literacy did not exist and readers of Disraeli 's or Thackeray 's novels would neither mistake them for the real world , nor read them to the exclusion of all real political texts . |
| 6 | The Scottish Typographical Circular reported of this conflict that " people are beginning to see that making women printers … will only unfit them for the active and paramount duties of female society " . |
| 7 | Why is it that those countries can accept basic , decent minimum standards for their people whereas this Government will not accept them for the British people ? |