Example sentences of "[to-vb] they for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | National Park rangers eventually managed to speak to the two men but were unable to see them for clouds of steam . |
| 2 | Cell suspensions were centrifuged at 200 g for 10 minutes and the pellet of cells added to the organ bath the bathing fluid of which was used to resuspend them for transfer . |
| 3 | Vivien had some friends still up at Oxford and had arranged to meet them for lunch at the Randolph Hotel . |
| 4 | We arrange to meet them for lunch . |
| 5 | But the Americans do not seem likely to force the Japanese to overcharge them for chips again . |
| 6 | After more than five years of talks , outstanding difficulties centred on ( i ) whether it could be acceptable under GATT rules for the EC to make direct payments to farmers to compensate them for cuts in subsidies ( a key part of plans to reform the EC 's Common Agricultural Policy ) ; ( ii ) the volume of EC grain exports ; and ( iii ) EC demands for limits on US exports of cereal substitutes to the EC . |
| 7 | The typical pattern was for the local parties to meet only once a year in 1915 and 1916 , to re-elect their officers for another year ; agents who had enlisted were kept on the books by retaining half their normal pay , to compensate them for loss of earnings in the national interest and to keep them available for a resumption of partisanship . |
| 8 | If they are to deter wasteful and unnecessary spending , it seems foolish to impose them for sight tests and dental check-ups ( preventive care usually saves money in the end ) but not for old people 's prescriptions . |
| 9 | And although they were n't allowed to sell them for money , people could give them objects , could give them things like coffee and things like that |
| 10 | one who steals bodies from cemeteries to sell them for dissection , like Jerry Cruncher in TTC . |
| 11 | Towns like Gwelo , Que Que and Bulawayo are preparing to receive them for MRA weeks and other functions to speak to the leaders and people . |
| 12 | If you were prone to feeling miserable , for example , the aim is to prevent feelings of misery rather than to swop them for feelings of ecstasy . |
| 13 | This is not a reason to avoid them for drama more than any other activity in school can help children find a mature approach to such topics . |
| 14 | Lear had managed to attract 175 subscribers for the Parrots but had not the temperament or the means to press them for payment . |
| 15 | Because these are so individually made , they 're rather like instruments which have been devised for a specific individual , and so to criticise them for details of design is hardly fair . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's another kind of acoustic string we make , one my father used to make under the D'Arco name before he sold the company to Martin , and that 's a semi-polished acoustic string , halfway between a round-wound and a flat-wound ; a lot of the old archtop guitar players used to use them for recording . |
| 17 | The ‘ aim should be to use them for purposes compatible with the Green Belt as set out in Circular 14/84 which can include institutional uses ’ . |
| 18 | So if A sells goods to B who then decides to leave them for A to repair , A is a person who ‘ having sold goods continues or is in possession of the goods , ’ Pacific Motor Auctions v. Motor Credits ( 1965 P.C. ) . |
| 19 | I 've refused to do them for Notts County Council on occasions . |
| 20 | I might still have the odd tin of some oval golden tablets , big as gooseberries , which we used to give them for worms . |
| 21 | You used to solve them for Hubert Devenish , did n't you ? ’ |
| 22 | All six had conquered hardships of their own to help those in need and Celebrities Guild founder Ella Glazer said : ‘ They 're all remarkable people and it 's a pleasure for us to reward them for work which might otherwise go unmarked . ’ |
| 23 | Alright cos I think we 've been sent these on approval to see if we want to adopt them for course material |
| 24 | You do n't need to hoard them for years , I know some people who hoard receipts for years . |
| 25 | Always obtain three prices before short-listing a potential supplier and do not forget to squeeze them for discounts . |
| 26 | The hand was hot , the skin dry and the slender fingers lay in her palm like splinters of fine porcelain — she was afraid to squeeze them for fear they might snap . |
| 27 | The players are very down and upset and it will be difficult to lift them for Tranmere . |
| 28 | I could learn procedures and facts for a short time and I knew how to regurgitate them for examinations . |
| 29 | They also use the grass to rear calves and , when prices are high , to fatten them for beef . |
| 30 | They tried to get them for Felling , but lost out to Yugoslavia . |