Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] them for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 2 | I made them for a friend a couple of years ago and she 's still talking about them ! |
| 3 | I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price . |
| 4 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 5 | ‘ I make them for the shops to sell , ’ she told Virginia . |
| 6 | no I were gon na do , I got them for the days |
| 7 | All the perennials are bought in containers and I grow them for a year in their pots to see how they cope with the conditions , then I plant them out in the garden . " |
| 8 | ‘ They were n't worth keeping so I swapped them for a couple of balloons . ’ |
| 9 | There 's a man and a woman sitting at a table by the window , and I watch them for a bit . |
| 10 | I watch them for a bit , but they do n't win nothing . |
| 11 | I watch them for a bit . |
| 12 | Having read both books for the first time , I really enjoyed them , but once I read them for the second time , I saw how little there really was to them . |
| 13 | ‘ I have a full staff here but I released them for the fiesta in Palma . |
| 14 | Whenever I am working with someone I know and trust I ask them for a quick trim . |
| 15 | ‘ I took them for a ride in a van and a walk through Epping Forest . ’ |
| 16 | I took them for the shrine in the loft one night , and have them to this day , little brown twists of dried plant like old Sellotape , stuck in a little glass bottle . |
| 17 | I respect them for the medieval certainty of their beliefs and for the casuistical cunning of their arguments . |
| 18 | I LIKE The Cult , I admire them for the sheer daftness of their post- ‘ Electric ’ output — all gung-ho riffing and ludicrous lyrical conceits — and even found much to savour in the absurdly ambitious ‘ Sonic Temple ’ , where they attempted to sound like all their favourite bands all the way through each song , but ‘ Ceremony ’ is an extremely dull affair . |
| 19 | He presented himself as organizer of reciprocities ( ‘ Am I to ask them for a dinar when you are sick ? ’ ) rather than as lineage banker : he noticeably did not raise issues of authority . |
| 20 | Henri and I sheltered them for a while , but of course it was very risky with the Germans billeted everywhere except the smallest cottages . |
| 21 | He said that even though they had been given advance warning of Sam 's health problems during a scan three months before he was born , nothing prepared them for the shock . |
| 22 | Last season , Dungannon won the Ulster League which qualified them for a ‘ round-robin ’ series with the other provincial winners in a bid to gain entry to the AIL . |
| 23 | Towards the end of the second year some major or joint students of History undertake a six-week period of placement or work experience in a record office , museum or folk park ; others follow a specially-designed short course which prepares them for the final year and for the world of work . |
| 24 | The relatively high completion rates for the ‘ Other NSEs ’ reflects the fact that this includes students with ‘ professional , nursing , technical or secretarial qualifications ’ The pattern which emerges is that students who have been selected on the basis of success in some form of study which prepares them for the demands which will be placed on them in higher education respond as least as well if not better than the traditionally qualified A-level entrants , while those with less evidence of success of this kind find the transition to higher education difficult and are more likely to drop-out . |
| 25 | They then wheeled in unison into a shaft of light which held them for a second or so before they soared over the car and away . |
| 26 | Will you keep them for a while ? ’ |
| 27 | As a single woman living with her uncle , the negligent landlord Mr Brooke , Dorothea has good reason to concern herself with cottages , although she intends them for the estate of the obliging Sir James , having presumably abandoned her uncle as a hopeless case . |
| 28 | I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life . |
| 29 | Again , like Microsoft , WordPerfect UK would rather that you contacted them for an upgrade . |
| 30 | They sued the well-known actress Constance Collier for the £16 9s 3d which they said she owed them for the flowers which her maid had ordered by telephone to be delivered to the Savoy Theatre . |