Example sentences of "[prep] they for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He chatted on about them for the rest of the journey , as she had hoped he would , and she learnt that they could n't be better looked after . |
| 2 | Individually or collectively , they must have made a decision to keep their wits about them for the committee meeting . |
| 3 | If you intend to tile over existing tiles , you will have to drill holes through them for the masonry pins . |
| 4 | Bénéteau will build a maxi for them for the race . |
| 5 | A day 's journey with small children , or alternatively getting someone to care for them for the day , is not easy . |
| 6 | In a Welsh mining village the boys were told to go and carry water for the old people … and see about firewood for them for the week . |
| 7 | It recognized that there was a National Health Service and a private sector and , rather than arguing that one should be taken over by the other , proposed sensible cooperation between them for the benefit of patients . |
| 8 | Therefore price competition between them for the right to sell to the retailers would drive price to marginal cost . |
| 9 | Because facing such questions has brought the work on long-term memory in Aplysia into the same biochemical arena as my own in the chick , I want to postpone considering them for the present and instead look at some of the problems which , in its singlemindedly reductionist approach , Aplysian orthodoxy — at least the orthodoxy of the mid-1980s , as I suspect that the position is now becoming much more flexible — has ignored . |
| 10 | The door had n't opened , but there had n't been another sound out of them for the rest of the night . |
| 11 | These have to be married with the individual dreams of each business who , in addition to achieving the best they can ask for their business , have to perform and deliver what the board has asked of them for the company as a whole . |
| 12 | He was in command of the local corps of yeomanry and quickly gathered about ten of them for the defence of Carewscourt . |
| 13 | ought to pass a vote of thanks to both of them for the sterling work they have done and I would be more than happy to er thank you |
| 14 | Mary found tiger lilies and Hope , discovering Mr Robinson 's prize of six bottles of good claret , bought two of them for the evening . |
| 15 | the general administration of the trust is ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom ; and 2. the trustees or a majority of them for the time being are not resident or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( TCGA 1992 , s69(1) ) . |
| 16 | I 'd like one of them for the landing . |
| 17 | Participants were delighted to be able to welcome our President , Lady Braithwaite and Sir Franklin Braithwaite and also to have with them for the day Hilda Hewitt , Edith Harlow and Jean Parmiter . |
| 18 | This is that city which readers of Crime and Punishment carry with them for the rest of their lives . |
| 19 | I recently heard of a family who invited to church some friends who were staying with them for the weekend . |
| 20 | The Gnomes had rolled the designs for the new Crown Jewels into cylinders and packed them carefully into long , hollow tubes , which they had brought with them for the purpose . |
| 21 | And then ( as he stood and stared through the window at the magazine ) Boy imagined sleeping with these men , actually sleeping , sharing a bed with them for the night . |
| 22 | So you 'll have to go in yourself with them for the interview . " |
| 23 | Quelle horreur : many 's the time I have found myself torn between throwing people like him out and putting up with them for the sake of the cash-till . |
| 24 | Christians , they complain , should refrain from criticism , and instead join with them for the good of each other and mankind in general . |
| 25 | They have an incurable handicap which will remain with them for the duration of their lives . |
| 26 | We were warmly invited to stay with them for the duration of the festival , and were conducted to the top floor for a rather formal preliminary audience with Ranteallo and his elders . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I want some quotes from them for the magazine story . |
| 30 | I knew we would be without them for the return so there 's no point talking about it we have other players who can score . ’ |