Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] they for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Daphne 's dear familiarity , the pleasure of her company , the comfort of knowing pretty well what she would say in response to any remark , the whole warm , easy , ancient closeness that had subsisted between them for more than half a century , won over Cecilia 's temporary , though profound , embarrassment . |
| 2 | The pair celebrated the news yesterday by parading in the lavish costumes specially designed for them for Dick Whittington at the Empire Theatre . |
| 3 | What I was able to do in that instance was play all the symphonies through with the orchestra and then forget about them for three months . |
| 4 | The County Council er w would train you but you 'd do your erm year 's training and then you had to work for them for a year , I think it was a year or eighteen months . |
| 5 | The rushes on the floor were none too clean : hungry wolf-hounds foraged amongst them for bits of food and Corbett heard the squeak and scamper of rats . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm thrilled that the board have shown faith in me by giving me the chance to work with them for another 12 months . |
| 7 | Listing particulars are required to contain all such information as investors and their professional advisers would reasonably require and reasonably expect to find in them for the purpose of making an informed assessment of the assets , liabilities , financial position , profits , losses and prospects of the issuing company and the rights attaching to its securities . |
| 8 | Once territories have been established by young fans , occupants are physically confined within them for the entire duration of the match . |
| 9 | In an extreme case , someone may act on them for the reason that , or on the principle that , ‘ a little bit of what you fancy does you good ’ . |
| 10 | The owners feel spurned , wondering why their cat has not come to them for help when it feels seriously ill . |
| 11 | First-class writers can defy this rule-of-thumb , but anyone else doing so risks alienating readers who have come to them for a particular sort of entertainment . |
| 12 | People wanted to be the next model to sit and she 'd chat to them for about an hour and draw , and they 'd get a picture at the end of the session , just like you get in the street . ’ |
| 13 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 14 | The world looks to them for decisive leadership on this issue , as on others " . |
| 15 | Typical of the kind of pain Dustin would put himself through , in order to get ‘ inside ’ a character , was the way in which he developed Ratso 's limp by placing stones in one shoe and then walking on them for a day . |
| 16 | I had to work on them for a long time . |
| 17 | Both bodies publish application forms recommended for use when applying to them for the appointment of experts or arbitrators : copies of the forms are reproduced in Appendices G and H. The Law Society has also published its requested procedure : see [ 1986 ] Law Society 's Gazette 2542 , reprinted in Appendix B. It is important that applicants follow the procedure of applying on prescribed forms . |
| 18 | Nancy moved among them for a while , making them welcome , peering into their pale faces with the object of discovering which were her grandchildren . |
| 19 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
| 20 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
| 21 | A compositor is employed as a compositor ; a machine-minder ( printer ) likewise has to keep to his own job ; the print union is a strong one — and very jealously guard the many gains won by them for their members . |
| 22 | Nothing was heard of them for fifteen years . |
| 23 | Piper squirmed between them for a moment , fighting to get free , then went limp . |
| 24 | Theda stood looking after them for a moment , aware of her own burning curiosity . |
| 25 | In the discussion which followed , it was agreed that while the statistics formed a useful starting point , insufficient use was being made of them for publicity purposes , and the Secretary was instructed to ascertain the form in which figures would be most useful to property correspondents . |
| 26 | At the time of writing it seems that digital tape recorders sold to the public will have various anti-piracy measures built into them for this very reason . |
| 27 | I speak with them for forty minutes and generally have my socks charmed from my feet , the spring put in my step and all semblance of a chill factor taken from this typical October evening . |
| 28 | The Statue of the Etook Ha'chllt he 'd bartered for in a little town called Slew , which was now , regrettably , a blasted spot , its citizens the victims of a purge visited upon them for the crime of a song , written in the dialect of their community , suggesting that the Autarch of Yzordderrex lacked testicles . |
| 29 | You you walk round the flats , and you know , you walk round them for fourteen months , and all of a sudden you have to stop and think where you are . |
| 30 | ‘ I know the civil liberties people will not like it , but to some degree they have got us into this mess and we have been listening to them for too long , ’ said Mr Gallie . |