Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] for them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his death in 1857 he left his books and manuscripts to Morden College , Blackheath , where they survive in a building designed for them by Philip Hardwick [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | Along with many a public body that felt pushed around by the Tories , the BBC must have gone to bed on April 8 with dreams of a quieter life on the night ; already swinging , as it were , in the hammock slung for them by a hung parliament . |
| 3 | Such exclusions need not be contained in the original contract document , but you must agree to them in writing before the term expires for them to be legally effective . |
| 4 | Such exclusions need not be contained in the original contract document , but you must agree to them in writing before the term expires for them to be legally effective . |
| 5 | Their refusal to face the fact that many schools want to opt out of having their budgeting done for them by remote administrators . |
| 6 | Although they could only be released following the conclusion of their court cases , the law allowed for them to be provisionally released . |
| 7 | They remain on display today in the Crown Room of the Castle , the very room built for them in the reign of James VI . |
| 8 | The two of them were drooping by then , in reaction from their long and laborious walk home , and sleepy from the wine mulled for them with their supper . |
| 9 | In a very different sense London Docklands was an invented place , a series of disparate communities which were united by the imperatives of a specific form of development chosen for them by an imposed Urban Development Corporation ( chapter 2 ) . |
| 10 | That authority arranged for them to be temporarily fostered by a local doctor and three months later , in December 1984 , they were moved to the home of their first permanent foster parents . |
| 11 | In short , Labour and the Liberal Democrats will have the argument won for them on the ground — and as long as they locate their policies in terms of wealth creation , rather than punitive redistribution , the current election election result has given them a platform from which effectively to challenge for power next time round . |
| 12 | The Tans had swarmed over the countryside looking for them after the execution . |
| 13 | If those who work in the media wish to enjoy the freedom desired for them by the Royal Commission — the freedom to publish facts and opinions which are in the public interest — they may have to forgo some of the comparative freedom they enjoy to publish facts and opinions which are not . |
| 14 | There would be no tall good-looking man waiting for them at the Secret Cove and , once there , she found the Place was , indeed , deserted . |
| 15 | Make a table , ranking the prey species ( a ) in their order of abundance and ( b ) in order of the preference shown for them by the dog-whelks . |
| 16 | Their choice to negotiate for them over the property group 's restructuring is the American financier who , after a colourful career in the more maverick corners of the Euromarkets , agreed to buy the Marshalls money-broking business from British & Commonwealth but failed to find the cash . |
| 17 | The sellers owned 200,000 gallons of white spirit stored for them by an independent person , X , in his tanks . |
| 18 | Why not rescue them from the hell hole created for them by the Government ? |
| 19 | A teacher has only to say : " Now which of you girls did — " and my spots merge for a time into the scarlet background provided for them by the rest of my face . |
| 20 | It is the churches which have too often failed to live according to the model set for them by Christ . |
| 21 | Inevitably the analysis is relatively crude since it is difficult to gather data about the financial circumstances of dementia sufferers or about the total amount of care provided for them in the community . |
| 22 | I do n't know I , I would n't be in a position to answer for them to be honest with you . |
| 23 | But there was a way provided for them in God 's word . |
| 24 | After they were finally discovered to be there , the minister pleaded for them to be allowed to stay the night , and guaranteed they would be at the Children 's Panel Hearing in Kirkwall the next day . |
| 25 | The ability to develop new drugs is now greater than most countries ' ability to pay for them without rationing or screening systems — for example , France controls individual prices and Germany has initiated a reference system which pays a basic price for all drugs in the same category . |
| 26 | If the rebels were prudent they would hold the line where it is , and take advantage of the peace talks that the American State Department has by steady diplomacy arranged for them in London . |
| 27 | He had been about four years old , and although he was younger than my brother , they always got on very well together and were heartbroken when the time came for them to part . |
| 28 | They had reached the hilly avenues of Lisbon when it occurred to her that he could be worried about how she might behave when the time came for them to part . |
| 29 | She imagined the young doctor coming to this simple village , the home of his grandmother , to build his business empire , getting to know and love the villagers as he did so , and deciding to live with them and spend his spare time caring for them as a doctor . |
| 30 | Young fans found a new ‘ hooligan ’ identity created for them by journalists with a vested interest in whipping up public indignation . |