Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] them for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Then , although I did not believe them for a moment , I stored them away in my memory against a rainy day . |
2 | Paint and varnish slow down moisture changes in wood but they do not prevent them for no paint is impermeable to water vapour . |
3 | Apart from anything else , I ca n't help feeling that if women let men get away with too much bad behaviour , men do not forgive them for the burden of guilt they then have to bear . |
4 | and they did n't reduce them for the sale . |
5 | Do n't punish them for the way in which they behave today and let them get away with the same thing tomorrow just because your own mood is different , or the matter is n't worth ‘ all that bother ’ anyway . |
6 | ‘ I do n't need them for the moment , ’ said Apricot , ‘ because Bernard and I do n't do it . |
7 | This suggests that something is amiss with the job definition and , by implication , also with education and training which does not prepare them for the reality . |