Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] them for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For it seemed to her then that he was aware that her thoughts were troubled and , when he had no need whatsoever to put himself out , he had decided to take her mind off them for a brief while . |
| 2 | In a Welsh mining village the boys were told to go and carry water for the old people … and see about firewood for them for the week . |
| 3 | I 'd like , if I may , to report your provisional findings , and to ask him to delay action on them for a week . |
| 4 | the general administration of the trust is ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom ; and 2. the trustees or a majority of them for the time being are not resident or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( TCGA 1992 , s69(1) ) . |
| 5 | We 're gon na stick hold of them for a minute or two because we have n't |
| 6 | ‘ The traditional way to eat peas is to buy them separately and put salt and vinegar on them for a sweet and sour taste . ’ |
| 7 | There was room beyond them for a rabble of servants and slaves and others who scratched a living here on the roof of the world , and they were all watching the figures clustered in the centre of the gassy arena . |
| 8 | They can have all the cleaning equipment ready for you , tidying and moving any light objects , as necessary , as their contribution to the exercise before your arrival , and then when the work is completed they will usually be very pleased if you have allowed time to sit down and have a cup of tea or a drink with them for a while before you leave . |
| 9 | He turned his back on them for a moment , hands planted on his hips . |
| 10 | ‘ And we have n't had a penny from them for the past two years or more . |
| 11 | Hence I keep their captain before them for a show of mastery . |
| 12 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |
| 13 | It was the first time I 've seen either Perberton and White so I 'll reserve judgement on them for the time being . |
| 14 | Therefore price competition between them for the right to sell to the retailers would drive price to marginal cost . |
| 15 | The implied criticism hung in the air between them for a few moments . |
| 16 | That last dangerous statement seemed to hang in the sunlit air between them for a very long time . |
| 17 | And then ( as he stood and stared through the window at the magazine ) Boy imagined sleeping with these men , actually sleeping , sharing a bed with them for the night . |
| 18 | All fears are of the material world and we have to give some thought to them for the sake of our ambition and our dependants and our own physical well being , but they are not transcendent things and have no meaning there . |
| 19 | The only objects in the entire room were two upturned wooden boxes to serve as chairs and a third box between them for a table . |
| 20 | From 1823 onwards he built over twenty in the region , a number of them for the commissioners for building new churches established under the Million Pound Act , and in 1829 he was appointed surveyor to York Minster . |
| 21 | Others are saying , a lot of them for the last few years have been saying , this is ridiculous . |
| 22 | And two companies with strong Australian transport interests , Britannic Shipping and Playmaker , have agreed sponsorship deals worth nearly £100,000 a year between them for the next three years . |
| 23 | It recognized that there was a National Health Service and a private sector and , rather than arguing that one should be taken over by the other , proposed sensible cooperation between them for the benefit of patients . |
| 24 | At the same time he supposedly played really well in these matches and got an offer from Juve to stay with them for a few weeks this winter . |