Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] they for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 2 | Well this is , this is why I thought perhaps erm I did n't want to ask Jim too much or he would know I was buying them for him you see . |
| 3 | that 's why I was asking them for , I just want to make it plain my Lord |
| 4 | I mean , all I use I mean , if I was making them for somebody I would use about four or five layers and then I would put a piece of lace of braid or something at the top |
| 5 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
| 6 | She was making them for him , then he 's making him some an'all . |
| 7 | She was doing them for him . ’ |
| 8 | Although he believed thoroughly in the ability of these products to fill out the tiny character lines around the eyes and mouth , and to smooth his neck , he did not want to admit he was buying them for himself . |
| 9 | Francis Carco , who was a friend who had bought Modigliani 's work before the crowd , also bought Modigliani 's paintings , but he was given them for what he himself described as a ridiculously cheap price . |
| 10 | He was reactivating them for life . |