Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] them for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 2 | I made them for a friend a couple of years ago and she 's still talking about them ! |
| 3 | I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price . |
| 4 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 5 | ‘ I make them for the shops to sell , ’ she told Virginia . |
| 6 | no I were gon na do , I got them for the days |
| 7 | 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 . " |
| 8 | ‘ They were n't worth keeping so I swapped them for a couple of balloons . ’ |
| 9 | There 's a man and a woman sitting at a table by the window , and I watch them for a bit . |
| 10 | I watch them for a bit , but they do n't win nothing . |
| 11 | I watch them for a bit . |
| 12 | Having read both books for the first time , I really enjoyed them , but once I read them for the second time , I saw how little there really was to them . |
| 13 | ‘ I have a full staff here but I released them for the fiesta in Palma . |
| 14 | Whenever I am working with someone I know and trust I ask them for a quick trim . |
| 15 | ‘ I took them for a ride in a van and a walk through Epping Forest . ’ |
| 16 | I took them for the shrine in the loft one night , and have them to this day , little brown twists of dried plant like old Sellotape , stuck in a little glass bottle . |
| 17 | I respect them for the medieval certainty of their beliefs and for the casuistical cunning of their arguments . |
| 18 | I LIKE The Cult , I admire them for the sheer daftness of their post- ‘ Electric ’ output — all gung-ho riffing and ludicrous lyrical conceits — and even found much to savour in the absurdly ambitious ‘ Sonic Temple ’ , where they attempted to sound like all their favourite bands all the way through each song , but ‘ Ceremony ’ is an extremely dull affair . |
| 19 | He presented himself as organizer of reciprocities ( ‘ Am I to ask them for a dinar when you are sick ? ’ ) rather than as lineage banker : he noticeably did not raise issues of authority . |
| 20 | Henri and I sheltered them for a while , but of course it was very risky with the Germans billeted everywhere except the smallest cottages . |
| 21 | Will you keep them for a while ? ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life . |
| 24 | Again , like Microsoft , WordPerfect UK would rather that you contacted them for an upgrade . |
| 25 | They sued the well-known actress Constance Collier for the £16 9s 3d which they said she owed them for the flowers which her maid had ordered by telephone to be delivered to the Savoy Theatre . |
| 26 | If so can she borrow/beg/steal them for a class item ? ? ? |
| 27 | ‘ If you invite someone , you invite them for the whole day . ’ |
| 28 | And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen forever . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |