Example sentences of "[prep] them for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For it seemed to her then that he was aware that her thoughts were troubled and , when he had no need whatsoever to put himself out , he had decided to take her mind off them for a brief while . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That 's an area where they 're not gon na get involved unless there 's an awful lot of money and yes , there is money , for them for a training budget , but certainly not enough to cover what would be lost if , if Tomlinson , and let's face it , if they win Tomlinson it will just continue . |
| 4 | I personally think he suits their style more and will probably do good things for them for a while , until he gets bored , or dropped , or injured . |
| 5 | The little girl answered and the conversation flowed between them for a while ; the little boy did n't say anything . |
| 6 | Silence fell between them for a few steps , then he said , his tone slightly different , ‘ I 've heard on the grapevine that you came to Glasgow from Heymouth , and that you were involved in the disaster there last August . ’ |
| 7 | PAUL Hodkinson and Colin McMillan are demanding £500,000 between them for a world featherweight title showdown . |
| 8 | The only objects in the entire room were two upturned wooden boxes to serve as chairs and a third box between them for a table . |
| 9 | Piper squirmed between them for a moment , fighting to get free , then went limp . |
| 10 | The implied criticism hung in the air between them for a few moments . |
| 11 | That last dangerous statement seemed to hang in the sunlit air between them for a very long time . |
| 12 | If the wife is unable to take a nap in the afternoon when the children are napping , then possibly there is someone who could look after them for a few hours at least one day a week for her to regain her strength . |
| 13 | I 've been after them for a long time and I 'll get them for this . ’ |
| 14 | Theda stood looking after them for a moment , aware of her own burning curiosity . |
| 15 | She 's going to look after them for a little while |
| 16 | An indrawn breath from the spectators unsettled both of them for a moment . |
| 17 | There was sand everywhere between the knee-high crags , so I climbed on one of them for a better view . |
| 18 | Then analyse each one of them for a lesson . |
| 19 | Some people have felt that this borrowing from Dorothy and others shows a certain egotism on Wordsworth 's part , but it was his method as an artist to absorb things into himself , and think of them for a long period before writing them down ; nor is it necessary to maintain , in any case , that the ‘ I ’ of a Wordsworth poem is necessarily the poet himself — it may stand as a universal shorthand symbol with which the reader can equally identify . |
| 20 | ‘ It has two rooms and she is willing to let your client move into one of them for a short period . |
| 21 | There was silence between the three of them for a moment as they returned each other 's stare ; then Joe said , ‘ If you do n't wish to act for me I can make other arrangements . ’ |
| 22 | He might have been watching over all of them for a century . |
| 23 | After the class they treated themselves to lunch , cold poached salmon the first day and the best cut of cold beef the next , and wine to go with it , and a raffle amongst the six of them for a bottle . |
| 24 | The lead fisherman wore shades ( ever see fish wearing glasses ? ) for the bluesy number and got rid of them for a rappy tune ( thank God ! ) . |
| 25 | This is her weekly expenditure : rent £21.78 electricity ( plus arrears ) £12.50 gas £1.00 club £6.00 sheet man £1.00 boots club £1.00 £43.28 This left about £17 to feed the four of them for a week . |
| 26 | I have n't seen one of them for a long time |
| 27 | Even the average consumption of these can be harmful for us. for many of us , reducing our consumption or even stopping all of them for a while is likely to help us in a number of ways . |
| 28 | He went without a sight of any of them for a year . |
| 29 | Between 1821 and 1842 he took out five patents , one of them for a ‘ suspension railway ’ which was tried out unsuccessfully in Cheshunt , and two relating to a system of constructing roofs and bridge decks in corrugated wrought or cast iron , which was for a time quite extensively used . |
| 30 | Further inquiries , by the CIA , had established that these digital electric timers were prototypes , unique to Meister et Bollier of Zurich , who had made 20 of them for a Libyan intelligence organization in 1985 . |