Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] they for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pair celebrated the news yesterday by parading in the lavish costumes specially designed for them for Dick Whittington at the Empire Theatre . |
| 2 | The rushes on the floor were none too clean : hungry wolf-hounds foraged amongst them for bits of food and Corbett heard the squeak and scamper of rats . |
| 3 | The owners feel spurned , wondering why their cat has not come to them for help when it feels seriously ill . |
| 4 | In the discussion which followed , it was agreed that while the statistics formed a useful starting point , insufficient use was being made of them for publicity purposes , and the Secretary was instructed to ascertain the form in which figures would be most useful to property correspondents . |
| 5 | We have applied to them for bonding and may choose to move down that route instead . |
| 6 | However , as we saw , this type of personality hangs on to others , looking to them for affirmation and praise . |
| 7 | One can be emotionally dependent on a parent , calling home daily , looking to them for decisions or allowing parents ’ wishes and desires to come before one 's partner . |
| 8 | In fact , he believed she ought to have done without them for vanity 's sake , as he did . |
| 9 | But I 'd have slept with them for sables — |
| 10 | I used to play with them for hours on end and they tore a big hole in the back of my coat during one rough and tumble . |
| 11 | Pupils look to them for advice , encouragement and support . |
| 12 | The banks ' role in the economy is thus crucial , and this was underlined when Chancellor Kohl turned to them for help in rebuilding East Germany . |
| 13 | Proper names are paradigm referential symbols , and it seems natural to look to them for clues . |
| 14 | The only bird that regularly directs missiles at other species is the Australian brush turkey , which kicks sand and stones at lizards when it is competing with them for food . |
| 15 | What Daugherty had liked most about New York Nights was the performance of the ex-Broadway actor John Wray as the gangster Joe Pivaldi and he told his readers that this characterization would stay with them for months . |
| 16 | Adoptive parents can not have a child who is placed with them for adoption tested for HIV until after a formal adoption order is made . |
| 17 | Sometimes troops are forced to move into Fanatics , because they move randomly , or they are forced to flee through them for example . |
| 18 | The theory is that if he stayed with the females throughout the year , he would compete with them for food and would probably take the best of what was available . |
| 19 | Then we are likely to seek out people who can be close to us , sometimes clinging to them for support , as if our own security was dependent upon their actual and continued physical presence . |
| 20 | I 'd stare at them for hours . |
| 21 | No one has heard from them for days . |
| 22 | He 'd read books about murders and we talked about them for years . |
| 23 | They were confined to assessment schemes specifically designed for lower attainers or specially adapted for them for example , restricted grade CSE examinations were included . |
| 24 | Mark Williams and John Austin from Pest Control Oxford have a competition running between them for sales up until the year end . |
| 25 | he said , I find mine just the same , I 've dealt with them for years but as soon you want anything although , I must say , with the break in we 've got on alright did n't we ? |
| 26 | ‘ For your information , I do n't believe in double standards for men — any more than I believe in them for women . |
| 27 | Phyllis Aldworth , 64 , of Mable Avenue , Shildon , has been surviving on them for years . |
| 28 | When children came running to them for sweets , they scythed them down with automatic fire . |
| 29 | The societies woke up to the threat and realised that the public was no longer naturally coming to them for mortgages . |
| 30 | A later commentator says that the plan " had been cherished by them for years " and it could very well have its roots in the Caledonian Press experiment , which had ended a mere eight years earlier . |