Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] them for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles , her husband , jokes all the time about what I 'm wearing , insists that I join them for formal dinners late at night , and then teases me throughout them because I 've never eaten squid before , and I do n't know what haggis is made of . |
| 2 | For that matter , now that I see them for this moment so clearly , what has Hugh to do with the king , either ? |
| 3 | And put them your side since we found that I did them for you . |
| 4 | As a single woman living with her uncle , the negligent landlord Mr Brooke , Dorothea has good reason to concern herself with cottages , although she intends them for the estate of the obliging Sir James , having presumably abandoned her uncle as a hopeless case . |
| 5 | Again , like Microsoft , WordPerfect UK would rather that you contacted them for an upgrade . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | My recommendation is that we scrap them for the ten year decade of evangelism as a trial period and then think again in AD 2000 ! |
| 8 | We both talk of love but those two were smarter than we took them for . |
| 9 | The mercenary ones simply put up with them and pretend that they love them for what they can get out of them . |
| 10 | Henri and I sheltered them for a while , but of course it was very risky with the Germans billeted everywhere except the smallest cottages . |
| 11 | And when , as shadow education spokesman , I was a frontline campaigner in the nineteen eighty seven election , it was the G M B which provided me with the necessary facilities to carry out that role , and I thank them for it . |
| 12 | We have enjoyed the loyal and industrious support of our employees throughout and I thank them for their individual contributions to the year 's achievements . ’ |
| 13 | I washed them trainers our Johnny given me and I cleaned them for him to try and save and then them black shoes for school to save his boots for the |
| 14 | Anyway , the people at SIS are big enough to take it and I respect them for that . ’ |
| 15 | Other women do and I admire them for it . |
| 16 | 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 . " |
| 17 | And Mum , if Dave and Anna call round for me tomorrow morning can you tell them we 've gone to the Prince Charles baths and to come there , and Mum , I went to the shoemender 's to collect my sandals , but they were shut and I need them for tomorrow evening because — Oh , thanks Mum . |
| 18 | There 's a man and a woman sitting at a table by the window , and I watch them for a bit . |
| 19 | Councillor is on record , in fact not long after taking his job , that he does n't care much for state education , he prefers , grant maintained schools , the assisted places scheme , which I 'm pleased to say , Lord Mayor , we do n't operate in this district and neither did the Tories when they were in power and I applaud them for that |
| 20 | Theyspoketo them nicely but if I asked them for anything it was as though they could n't be bothered . |
| 21 | And you visit them for there was one time we visit them for fourteen day daily but I do n't think they do it now . |
| 22 | Now she gets them and she sells them for ten quid . |
| 23 | You said that in our newsletter , because our checkout manager said that she 's found life extremely difficult with all the changes of shifts , and that in her department they have lots of problems , so she 's got like a pro forma checkout news , and she asks them for things that go into this , that they , you know , that they want bringing up , and specific things that they 're having difficulty with . |
| 24 | Until you see them for yourself , in fact , it 's difficult to conceive just how magnificent they really are . |
| 25 | These are delicious by themselves , but if you use them for Devils on Horseback ( see p112 ) your cocktail party will surely be an enormous success . |
| 26 | If you buy them for your own use , ask the assistant for advice , as some should be avoided in pregnancy . |
| 27 | Moreover , we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it . |
| 28 | We get them from other people by communication ; and we get them for ourselves by thinking , or by observation , or both . |
| 29 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |
| 30 | The numbers are unbelievable until we see them for ourselves . |