Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] them for a " 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 | 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 . " |
| 5 | ‘ They were n't worth keeping so I swapped them for a couple of balloons . ’ |
| 6 | There 's a man and a woman sitting at a table by the window , and I watch them for a bit . |
| 7 | I watch them for a bit , but they do n't win nothing . |
| 8 | I watch them for a bit . |
| 9 | Whenever I am working with someone I know and trust I ask them for a quick trim . |
| 10 | ‘ I took them for a ride in a van and a walk through Epping Forest . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Henri and I sheltered them for a while , but of course it was very risky with the Germans billeted everywhere except the smallest cottages . |
| 13 | Will you keep them for a while ? ’ |
| 14 | Again , like Microsoft , WordPerfect UK would rather that you contacted them for an upgrade . |
| 15 | If so can she borrow/beg/steal them for a class item ? ? ? |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | She does n't have a job , of course , so she does n't understand that things are different when you do them for a living . |
| 18 | She held them for a moment , inhaling their perfume . |
| 19 | " We sell them for a penny each , " Miss Poraway explained . |
| 20 | We monitored them for a period of about twelve months before we reported to members on the outcome . |
| 21 | Several fellow players asked her to take them for a ride as pillion passengers but that treat seemed to be reserved for members of her regular entourage , though I suppose it could be argued she took Steffi Graf for a ride in the semi-finals . |
| 22 | you know they take them for a little visit so they get used to the school before they go , which is a good idea , I mean we were just thrown in |
| 23 | Woolworth chief Geoff Mulcahy 's shares cost £374,000 — and he sold them for a £1,037,000 profit . |
| 24 | He must have felt it and he must have suffered afterwards from it I would imagine , but he had , he had those qualifications , he had those abilities and he used them for a . |
| 25 | Hearing on the grapevine that Island Records ' in-house Fallout Shelter studios were in need of a trainee engineer , he pestered them for an interview that afternoon and began work the next day . |
| 26 | Well , I 'm basically interested in the way in which education , or formal schooling , has attempted to prepare girls for their lives in the future , whether it prepares them for a life of , say , motherhood and working in the family , or whether it 's encouraging them to do work outside the home and try and achieve in the areas that men traditionally achieve . |
| 27 | Only once did Kinnock appear out of his separate cabin in the leader 's aircraft in order to talk to reporters , and that was when he thanked them for a birthday card . |
| 28 | He takes them for a walk on Hampstead Heath . |
| 29 | He took them for a test drive and then Mrs Lomax drove , a little jerkily until she got more used to the Glory . |
| 30 | He took them for a stroll along the banks of the stream . |