Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] them for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The mercenary ones simply put up with them and pretend that they love them for what they can get out of them . |
| 2 | But the speakers that you are observing ‘ know ’ how to use the resources of variation available to them , and they use them for many purposes , including the marking of varying social roles and functions . |
| 3 | In the nineteenth century , however , those who conducted the research did not really believe that their subjects would tell them the truth reliably if they asked them for information directly , and so they drew inferences about people 's ideas , religious beliefs , political commitments and so on from the type of literature they had on their shelf or the pictures they had on their walls . |
| 4 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 5 | Hundreds of children are taken to hospital after swallowing vitamin pills , often because they mistake them for sweets . |