Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] them for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big four have asked all Japanese corporations with equity-financing plans to postpone them for the time being . |
| 2 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
| 3 | We have also had support from our colleagues in Brussels ( see article on page 21 of this issue ) and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for taking the lead and to appeal to Johnson Matthey sites around the world to take up the challenge . |
| 4 | At corner Inn the ostlers were the only visible representatives , and the doors were still closed ; but at the village a number of the natives were astir , and came to a little stone pier where a boat 's crew were exchanging for the coin of the realm the sparkling treasure netted in the night season , and many of the lodgers would have the freshest of fresh herrings waiting them for breakfast . |
| 5 | " Another bloke wrote them for me . |
| 6 | The majority of Athenian citizens were working men who needed the meagre payment that was eventually made for carrying out public duties to compensate them for the loss of daily earnings . |
| 7 | Probably you could buy them some stores have them for maybe a week or so . |
| 8 | The same information will help members of a project team to understand what is going on , and why , strengthening their contribution and going some way to prepare them for the project management role when it comes their way . |
| 9 | Although few performers really enjoy working under the glare of high-power lights , their use is sometimes essential , and the most acceptable way to use them for the illumination of small areas is to employ the technique known as bounce-lighting . |
| 10 | His sad tones prepared them for the news as he announced that German troops had not withdrawn from Poland and consequently Britain was now at war with Germany . |
| 11 | The issues raised by this and subsequent questions go to the heart of the debate on the Compensation Fund , and it is apparent that many of those who answered negatively felt to varying degrees that in the present commercial climate the public could no longer expect the entire profession to compensate them for any losses they suffered at the hands of a tiny minority of errant solicitors — particularly as no comparable compensation was available from the providers of other professional services . |
| 12 | Further , those who requested such facilities wanted them for others — those who had been ‘ mollycoddled ’ by their parents and by their teachers in special schools — rather than for themselves . |
| 13 | Soviet citizens were given three days to exchange them for lower-denomination notes . |
| 14 | 1979 , 1982 ) , not only do stags that hold large harems hold them for longer within particular breeding seasons than those which hold smaller harems ( Fig. 23. 1a ) , but individuals that are consistently successful in securing large harems throughout their lives tend to live longer than their less successful competitors ( Fig. 23.1b ) . |
| 15 | It was always cold on Monaghan Day , the traditional day poor farmers sold their winter stock and the rich farmers bought them for fattening . |
| 16 | Lot number twenty twenty is a quantity of stands there we are , we 've got a sample showing for you just a sample showing fifty for the lot the whole lot there for fifty pounds at fifty pounds want them for fifty pounds thank you sir , fifty pounds I 've got , at fifty five going on fifty five , sixty pounds , sixty five coming in sir ? |
| 17 | Drugs are expensive in primary care , not normally because of the unit cost , but because many patients take them for many years . |
| 18 | By all means prosecute them for that . |
| 19 | I bet , I bet the plain poor people wanting them for Christmas would n't bother to send them , well she kept them for over Christmas . |
| 20 | More gannets will be arriving daily from winter quarters , which may be as far south as the coastal waters of West Africa and with them will come the great skuas to harry them for food . |
| 21 | The CF 1 is for those who prefer a closed face reel — personally I only use one on canals when squatt fishing , but I know a lot of good anglers prefer them for all float fishing . |
| 22 | The idea of using frames in a word processor is , perhaps , a little novel , although Ami Professional uses them for graphics and tables . |
| 23 | Indeed sometimes this spirit of God comes to specific people to endow them for a particular task . |
| 24 | And although three quarters of our teenagers thought it best to wait until 16 before losing their virginity , the younger boys say they feel under pressure to have sex and reckoned they 've got even less information to equip them for a sex life . |
| 25 | It was a closely fought struggle in Grade Three between the two Ballynahinch teams , with just one point separating them for first and second places , with the ‘ B ’ set just edging into the lead for top honours . |
| 26 | Although McGregor was to be paid £50 000 , the same as the man he replaced , the British government had to pay Lazard Freres $4.1m. over five years to compensate them for losing McGregor . |
| 27 | The second is that it is not the right allocation of available resources to use them for this patient . |
| 28 | It will improve gearing and the offeror 's ability to borrow ( unsecured creditors will regard it as similar to share capital ) but the holders will expect a higher yield to compensate them for their higher risk , although this should be less than that expected for preference share capital . |
| 29 | It also saw frequent proposals that diplomats should be given some systematic training to fit them for the posts they were to occupy . |
| 30 | At first Alistair took them for other screenplay writers and wedged himself behind the door , at the back of the queue . |