Example sentences of "[verb] they for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend . |
| 2 | I made them for a friend a couple of years ago and she 's still talking about them ! |
| 3 | When will the right hon. Gentleman give that consistency and leadership to the police and back them for a change ? |
| 4 | Last season , Dungannon won the Ulster League which qualified them for a ‘ round-robin ’ series with the other provincial winners in a bid to gain entry to the AIL . |
| 5 | Finally , I read yesterday that some managers , most noticably the two Scots that were in Wembley at the weekend , are talking about banning transfers after the season start and only allowing them for a limited period over Christmas . |
| 6 | " We sell them for a penny each , " Miss Poraway explained . |
| 7 | Might want them for a cup of tea . |
| 8 | The principal method is the study of hoards , since coins have frequently been deposited in hoards for safe-keeping and their owners have often been prevented from recovering them for a variety of reasons such as death or forgetfulness . |
| 9 | If you have gas or coal fires , and can avoid using them for a while , it would be a useful addition to this list . |
| 10 | It was still unthinkable to see him without his sketchbook and pencil , but of the hundreds and hundreds of drawings he made , he gave away many or sold them for a few francs . |
| 11 | Woolworth chief Geoff Mulcahy 's shares cost £374,000 — and he sold them for a £1,037,000 profit . |
| 12 | I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price . |
| 13 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 14 | a Services Division to support them for a transitional period |
| 15 | Yeah , but you can only buy them for a little while in the year |
| 16 | We monitored them for a period of about twelve months before we reported to members on the outcome . |
| 17 | But these are not just shoelaces — use them to be different ; plait , twist , braid or cord them for a variety of looks and purposes , from bracelets , necklaces , hair bands , bag cords or to brighten up a pair of trainers . |
| 18 | All the perennials are bought in containers and I grow them for a year in their pots to see how they cope with the conditions , then I plant them out in the garden . " |
| 19 | In James Callaghan 's famous speech at Ruskin College , Oxford , in October 1976 , from which the Great Debate emerged , he spoke of a school curriculum which would aim ‘ to equip children … for a lively , constructive place in society , and also fit them for a job of work ’ . |
| 20 | I pulled down my damp bloomers and changed them for a warm , dry pair that were hanging on the line over the fire . |
| 21 | Kalchu picked up a handful of maize kernels , inspected them for a minute , and let them trickle back through his fingers . |
| 22 | He must have felt it and he must have suffered afterwards from it I would imagine , but he had , he had those qualifications , he had those abilities and he used them for a . |
| 23 | They were trying plug them for a hundred and fifty thousand were n't they ? |
| 24 | The stewardesses woke them for a champagne breakfast . |
| 25 | Mrs Verity 's expenditure turned out to be far more than she guessed and their decisions were also affected because the bank was overcharging them for a time . |
| 26 | Your father , and Elizabeth and the others , are very worried about you , because you have not visited them for a long time . |
| 27 | Evaluation returns from the 1990 cohort ( 2,966 ) shows that 96% of teachers and 93% of companies reported that briefings successfully prepared them for a placement , while 89% of teachers successfully met their placement objectives . |
| 28 | ‘ A ’ were with dressable wounds for the medical wards , ‘ B ’ were for the theatre , as they had wounds needing operative treatment , ‘ C ’ were for as much morphia as we could give them for a quiet inevitable death , ‘ D ’ were corpses . |
| 29 | When the child has gained a number of these it can exchange them for a rewarding object or activity . |
| 30 | Similarly , ‘ vocational ’ training was regarded more as a means of making prisoners work hard than of training them for a task to which they were individually suited . |