Example sentences of "[be] [verb] them for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that we are providing the services for Wiltshire , that they were providing , and we 're providing them for less money , is surely something to be applauded . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's O.K. , I 've been selling them for twelve , I think I 've got the knack ’ I said . |
| 3 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 4 | Although for some years now people have been suing them for outrageous sums well beyond any amount that could ever be insured , when it came to the crunch litigants always settled out of court for a far lower figure . |
| 5 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |
| 6 | On page six of our agenda there are congress organization motions which clearly need to be discussed some time during this congress because they concern rule amendments , and if they do fall off the agenda because debate is long on the other things , I really do believe they should take priority because we wo n't be raising them for another three years . |
| 7 | She 's been collecting them for twenty five years , and now keeps more than five hundred at her home in Woodchester . |
| 8 | I gather you have been chasing them for two weeks for their time . |
| 9 | They 've been making them for 30 years . |
| 10 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 11 | Me auntie got it up there and when she got up there they were selling them for nineteen pounds . |
| 12 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 13 | Well they 're three weeks old and she 's selling them for two hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 14 | Curtis , meanwhile , as the result of his meditations on how a federated empire might collectively discharge its duty to the backward races under British rule , had begun to reach the conclusion that the answer was to train them for eventual self-government . |
| 15 | The subsequent chronology of the licences , as well as the varying charges for them , reveal that the king was granting them for political and financial ends , to make friends and raise cash , particularly from the late 1290s when he desperately needed both . |