Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] they for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've lots of ideas for these , but as they are all quick to make I 've left them for next month when you have finished your special presents and they are neatly folded and packed away in all their glory of tissue paper and gold and silver ribbons . |
| 2 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 3 | I had bought them for very little money from a woman who looked needy . |
| 4 | Then in late July I had my clubs stolen again I had left them for ten minutes at about 9.30pm and when I came back they were gone and it was at the time when I was about to play in two large junior competitions . |
| 5 | The medical profession were n't the fools I had taken them for . |
| 6 | ‘ After I 've boiled them for stock of course . ’ |
| 7 | And I 've seen them for years and years , twenty odd more than that years , beautiful , |
| 8 | Well I 've seen 'em for a hundred now actually , a hundred quid . |
| 9 | Anyway , I 've invited them for dinner this evening , if that 's okay ? ’ |
| 10 | I 've had them for over three years now and they have n't remembered a single birthday or Christmas . |
| 11 | I 've got a lot of my favourite garments from them , and I 've had them for years , ’ she says . |
| 12 | No I 'm actually quite surprised at myself I 've got two Clippers and both of them I found and I 've had them for ages . |
| 13 | ‘ This is a young side and I 've known them for four years and watched them mature and get stronger . |
| 14 | As a matter of fact the Tates are friends ; after all I 've known them for years . ’ |
| 15 | I 've got them for , for er , see if |
| 16 | The most important of these points are three in number , and I have expressed them for the sake of clarity in less technical and exact terminology than Halliday uses . |
| 17 | I have kept them for two years and found them naturally inquisitive and great characters . |
| 18 | In addition to securing Commonwealth support for their position , the British sought to consolidate their own aviation policy into some definable form , something which had eluded them for several years . |
| 19 | The results showed that capercaillie had vanished from 12 of the 56 forests which had held them for 20 years , and numbers had declined in nearly all the other forests . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought you 'd known them for years . |
| 21 | Perhaps because she 'd dressed them for winter ? |
| 22 | She 'd drawn them for him with eyebrow pencil on yesterday 's newspaper ; he 'd recalled Margaret 's silver propelling pencil and the small notebook she always carried . |
| 23 | People who are paying seventy eighty pound a month mortgage who 've had them for years and then |
| 24 | Her duties as parents had been completed , she had prepared them for the future , they could now stand on their own feet , so she let them go . |
| 25 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 26 | She picked up the stock records , she had studied them for so long that her head ached . |
| 27 | Swan felt very much at a disadvantage , especially when Amaranth told him that she had promised to go to The Times/Sunday Times party with Charles , who had left them for a moment to have a quick word with Peter Riddell of The Times . |
| 28 | You have seized them for no crime at all . |
| 29 | ‘ To witch a mother 's face as they 're read back to her , even though she 's read them for herself … the parent I was sitting with was shaking her head and crying . |
| 30 | He then delivered a heavy hint of the need for reform : ‘ We know the Germans , we 've known them for a long time . |