Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] them for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sold them for fifteen pounds . |
| 2 | ‘ I joined them for selfish reasons , ’ he admits . |
| 3 | Councillor is on record , in fact not long after taking his job , that he does n't care much for state education , he prefers , grant maintained schools , the assisted places scheme , which I 'm pleased to say , Lord Mayor , we do n't operate in this district and neither did the Tories when they were in power and I applaud them for that |
| 4 | I walked them for three or four hours a day , but nothing tired them or won their love . |
| 5 | I could n't get to sleep , and I noticed in the air there was a red light flashing , and several other green lights flashing , and they were coming , helicopter noises , and er I watched them for several minutes and they seemed to be landing and one was stationary in the air , without moving , and rest were going up and down . |
| 6 | I watched them for some time , thinking smugly ‘ Ha ! |
| 7 | Whatever it was , the moment I saw the Parsons I knew them for British as surely as though they 'd had the word stamped on their hides like bacon . |
| 8 | those four tapes , incidentally , I saw , you know the compil the Bach , Beethoven , Mozart and Tchaikovsky , I saw them for fifteen pound . |
| 9 | ‘ I had to coax two into it because they are not very experienced cook , but I chose them for that very reason , ’ he says . |
| 10 | He give me them , I took them for three days , right , I did n't come down for a fortnight and Russell 'll tell you that , I was high as a kite . |
| 11 | Anyway , the people at SIS are big enough to take it and I respect them for that . ’ |
| 12 | She got in the bed to watch Neighbours and we came back about five o'clock and I went up the stairs , the T V was and he was erm out for count , so I left them for another hour and I said to mum |
| 13 | Charles , her husband , jokes all the time about what I 'm wearing , insists that I join them for formal dinners late at night , and then teases me throughout them because I 've never eaten squid before , and I do n't know what haggis is made of . |
| 14 | Yes , er , I have them for those who received that incorrect information from me , I must apologise erm young people who are going as delegates as representatives of their district must be treated as adult representatives and they have to pay full price . |
| 15 | For that matter , now that I see them for this moment so clearly , what has Hugh to do with the king , either ? |
| 16 | So , for instance , the Crowther Report of 1959 on the education of 15-18-year-olds talked about the likelihood that middle-class girls would combine a career with motherhood and marriage and the necessity for them to receive an education which prepared them for this future dual role . |
| 17 | Back then he had argued with his son : had denied Yuan 's insistence that they were the gaolers of Tsao Ch'un 's City , the inheritors of a system which shaped them for ill . |
| 18 | The curriculum for most young people who have left school involves academic or vocational courses which prepare them for specific adult roles . |
| 19 | You get them for two pounds fifty . |
| 20 | And both have been designed to enable you to hold them for long periods of time . |
| 21 | Esquire , as it has taken form in America , has been an avid chronicler of games and the people who play them for all of its fifty-eight years . |
| 22 | Today , I was told , villagers living around the great wool churches of Lavenham and Long Melford have to bar their doors and ignore the knocking of tourists , who take them for antique shops and offer to buy their furniture . |
| 23 | Now she gets them and she sells them for ten quid . |
| 24 | They are thought to be the victims of fishermen , who blame them for meagre fish stocks . |
| 25 | Yeah , they we got them for thirty so mind you |
| 26 | ‘ We designed them for this . |
| 27 | And you visit them for there was one time we visit them for fourteen day daily but I do n't think they do it now . |
| 28 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |
| 29 | Well the people who make them sell them for forty P er twenty P rather . |
| 30 | ‘ As long as nothing offensive is being said during Eircell mobile phone conversations , we have no power to stop anybody using them for any purpose , however peculiar . ’ |