Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] them for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 2 | no I were gon na do , I got them for the days |
| 3 | ‘ I have a full staff here but I released them for the fiesta in Palma . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Well , the you 've heard , I 've heard some people being nasty and , and they did n't say no , but it was always , not always it was occasionally done grudgingly , and , and erm in many cases of course it was done willingly , you know come in yes please do , and , and they did n't even want the penny that , that you offered them for the telephone call . |
| 9 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
| 10 | Our canvas stretcher-beds were quickly drenched with blood , because we used them for the worst wounded — the others had to be laid on the tiled floor . |
| 11 | And then if they come along and change anything we hit , we hit them for the , the extras . |
| 12 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 13 | The band was down below and then a loft , a long wooden just like a dance hall up above and they just did that and they just they had tables set and then they removed them for the dances . |
| 14 | But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , for example , he believed certain things which were wrong ( such as the tenets of Unitarianism ) , and he believed them for the wrong reasons ( such as the theistic proofs ) . |
| 16 | He jailed them for the weekend , the judge . |