Example sentences of "[verb] them for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend . |
| 2 | I made them for a friend a couple of years ago and she 's still talking about them ! |
| 3 | When will the right hon. Gentleman give that consistency and leadership to the police and back them for a change ? |
| 4 | " We sell them for a penny each , " Miss Poraway explained . |
| 5 | Might want them for a cup of tea . |
| 6 | The principal method is the study of hoards , since coins have frequently been deposited in hoards for safe-keeping and their owners have often been prevented from recovering them for a variety of reasons such as death or forgetfulness . |
| 7 | If you have gas or coal fires , and can avoid using them for a while , it would be a useful addition to this list . |
| 8 | Woolworth chief Geoff Mulcahy 's shares cost £374,000 — and he sold them for a £1,037,000 profit . |
| 9 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 10 | We monitored them for a period of about twelve months before we reported to members on the outcome . |
| 11 | But these are not just shoelaces — use them to be different ; plait , twist , braid or cord them for a variety of looks and purposes , from bracelets , necklaces , hair bands , bag cords or to brighten up a pair of trainers . |
| 12 | 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 . " |
| 13 | In James Callaghan 's famous speech at Ruskin College , Oxford , in October 1976 , from which the Great Debate emerged , he spoke of a school curriculum which would aim ‘ to equip children … for a lively , constructive place in society , and also fit them for a job of work ’ . |
| 14 | Kalchu picked up a handful of maize kernels , inspected them for a minute , and let them trickle back through his fingers . |
| 15 | The stewardesses woke them for a champagne breakfast . |
| 16 | Mrs Verity 's expenditure turned out to be far more than she guessed and their decisions were also affected because the bank was overcharging them for a time . |
| 17 | Evaluation returns from the 1990 cohort ( 2,966 ) shows that 96% of teachers and 93% of companies reported that briefings successfully prepared them for a placement , while 89% of teachers successfully met their placement objectives . |
| 18 | Similarly , ‘ vocational ’ training was regarded more as a means of making prisoners work hard than of training them for a task to which they were individually suited . |
| 19 | ‘ They were n't worth keeping so I swapped them for a couple of balloons . ’ |
| 20 | I have n't seen them for a while |
| 21 | The staff would n't arrive to set them for a while yet . |
| 22 | Well , I 'm basically interested in the way in which education , or formal schooling , has attempted to prepare girls for their lives in the future , whether it prepares them for a life of , say , motherhood and working in the family , or whether it 's encouraging them to do work outside the home and try and achieve in the areas that men traditionally achieve . |
| 23 | There 's a man and a woman sitting at a table by the window , and I watch them for a bit . |
| 24 | I watch them for a bit , but they do n't win nothing . |
| 25 | I watch them for a bit . |
| 26 | So watch them for a while and then he started dancing with them and he dance them all night and he just get in his hand . |
| 27 | Will you keep them for a while ? ’ |
| 28 | We 'd keep them for a fortnight in those pigeon holes because most people claim stuff if they realize where they 'd left it within a day or two and then as the weeks went round we used to take stuff out of there and just lump it altogether , having duly labelled it up and erm record it and used to have tuppence an item if anybody lost anything . |
| 29 | And tears rolled down her flushed face as Sabina helped her wash between her toes , hastily , so that the evidence should be put away before the others joined them for a piece of bread and a glass of hot milk . |
| 30 | Then , although I did not believe them for a moment , I stored them away in my memory against a rainy day . |