Example sentences of "[vb infin] they for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Might want them for a cup of tea . |
| 2 | Yeah , but you can only buy them for a little while in the year |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | When the child has gained a number of these it can exchange them for a rewarding object or activity . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll do 'em for a penny , if yer like , I got lots of spit . ’ |
| 6 | Will you keep them for a while ? ’ |
| 7 | We 'd keep them for a fortnight in those pigeon holes because most people claim stuff if they realize where they 'd left it within a day or two and then as the weeks went round we used to take stuff out of there and just lump it altogether , having duly labelled it up and erm record it and used to have tuppence an item if anybody lost anything . |
| 8 | Then , although I did not believe them for a moment , I stored them away in my memory against a rainy day . |
| 9 | ‘ Where the occupier of premises agrees for reward that a person shall have the right to enter and use them for a mutually contemplated purpose , the contract between the parties ( unless it provides to the contrary ) contains an implied warranty that the premises are as safe for that purpose as reasonable care and skill on the part of anyone can make them . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But now I can use them for a different trade . ’ |
| 11 | It was , all in all , a tourist factory , at once pretentious , shabby and expensive , and boasting levels of service unique to Eastern Europe , for no one in Western Europe would tolerate them for a moment . |
| 12 | If so can she borrow/beg/steal them for a class item ? ? ? |
| 13 | If you could take them for a walk every day , from three to half-past four or something like that , I 'd be terribly grateful . |
| 14 | A chocolate bar or an ice-cream , or sometimes he 'd just take them for a walk . |
| 15 | I thought we 'd try them for a change . |
| 16 | Sometimes you could only have them for a day or two before passing them on . |
| 17 | And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand , and shalt be for frontlets between thine eyes . |
| 18 | we will pay them for a start , that 's that 's the that 's the trouble with a lot other companies and er it would n't be professional of me to mention names , but let me tell you that er that 's one thing we do make sure that people erm get their money when when they 've earned it . |
| 19 | Show that forests have a tangible value kept as forests , for example for timber , and countries will manage them for a sustained cash yield . |
| 20 | I then used a fingertip roughly to blend and spread them for a hazier and more subtle finish . |
| 21 | and this is why military strategies have always said we were gon na get we could hold them for a year , two years maybe three , but in the preventional warfare we would start loosing and military strategy have always said along that it would probably be somebody like France or us that would first use the nuclear weapon |
| 22 | sha n't want 'em for a long while |
| 23 | When I first went , I thought I 'd only get them for a couple of weeks at the most . |
| 24 | and a Services Division , which will support them for a transitional period |
| 25 | Members of the nursing profession , who once assumed that training for registration would equip them for a career in nursing now realise that this is no longer the case . |
| 26 | If I were to ask a school-teacher to choose for me a sample which she considered to be a fair cross-section of her pupils so that I could interview them for a survey , there would almost certainly be a personal bias in the sample given to me . |
| 27 | They 'd hire them for a couple of months and then if they worked out they 'd keep them on , paying them a pittance , and if they did n't , they 'd say ‘ sorry ’ and the guy would go away . |
| 28 | I do n't offer you these for twopence , ’ my Granpa would shout , holding up a cabbage in both hands , ‘ I do n't offer 'em for a penny , not even a ha'penny . |
| 29 | You can ask them for a sick note from their doctor , but only if they have been away for more than seven days . |
| 30 | Rory talked fast and funnily , told them of the rat they 'd found in the caravan when they 'd come to it , recounted the horrors of a little restaurant in Buncrana where they 'd eaten the night before , and laughed at the way he and Mallachy had sailed past the beach a thousand times before deciding to boldly ask them for a drink . |