Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 2 | Not only do they hold good against the trustee himself , and against his creditors during his life-time and his representatives after his death , but also against all to whom he may have transferred the property , and who can not show that they acquired it for value and without notice of the trust . |
| 3 | When parliament allows groups of individuals to exercise such power it should come as no surprise that they use it for their own advantage and contrary to the public interest . |
| 4 | The mercenary ones simply put up with them and pretend that they love them for what they can get out of them . |
| 5 | included in mine , so it meant that they paid me for the summer holidays cos I did n't officially really |
| 6 | The great advantage of such institutions is that they fit you for prison conditions . |
| 7 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 8 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 9 | Our answer is that they bought it for no money down because there were able to . |
| 10 | An annuity is an arrangement with a financial institution whereby , if you are over retirement age and do not want to leave your property to anyone when you die , they will effectively buy your house from you ( albeit at a bit less than the market price ) , give you guaranteed security of tenure until you die , and turn the money that they pay you for the house into a regular income for life . |
| 11 | And they ask me for hardly any rent , which is the other nice thing about it . ’ |
| 12 | So , and they charge you for how many electrons you use . |
| 13 | I do n't think it 's really clean , and they charge you for it ! |
| 14 | It is the vision of people looking up from the depths , de profundis , from the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ and of despair , and seeing a new light : ‘ unlooked for , glittering and bright ; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered , and they took it for a sign , and called it Gil-Estel , the Star of High Hope ’ . |
| 15 | He had the operation the next day and they took us for a couple of minutes and that was it — they just did n't care . |
| 16 | You have betrayed them , and they hate you for it . |
| 17 | Yeah , they buy gas at eighteen P and they sell it for forty three P . |
| 18 | ‘ Be soft with this London lot and they take you for a ride . |
| 19 | And they despised her for it , some of them , and they feared her for it , most of them ; but she did not care , so long as they paid her enough to be drunk on until the need to kill was irresistible again . |
| 20 | And they despised her for it , some of them , and they feared her for it , most of them ; but she did not care , so long as they paid her enough to be drunk on until the need to kill was irresistible again . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And they accept us for what we are and we 've got a good erm relationship with the the people w who are left in er the flat complex . |
| 23 | There are those who give little of the much which they have — and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gift unwholesome . |
| 24 | They remember that and they love you for it even more , so when you go back , you have this staunch hard core group of fans that really bring things like that to a head , that really make it happen for you . |
| 25 | And they did it for 20-year-old centre-half Darren Salton , who is still in a coma and on a life support machine after Thursday 's road crash in which Paul Telfer was also injured . |
| 26 | and then we had an accident with our car door , who we took it up to erm , up to Carnthruft there and they did it for us and it , it , it 's just disappeared as a hole in n it ? |
| 27 | I wanted to cut my hair short , and they allowed it for a while , until they discovered from a ‘ friend ’ that I am a lesbian , and then they tried everything they could to stop me dressing as I used to . |
| 28 | Then you have to go and have a bath and see the nurse , and she checks your hair and they check you for VD . |
| 29 | Suppose you 're an expert document examiner outside the service and they call you for the defence . |
| 30 | Well that 's what everybody sings to me when them and they meet me for the first time or get introduced to me . |