Example sentences of "[prep] them for the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He chatted on about them for the rest of the journey , as she had hoped he would , and she learnt that they could n't be better looked after . |
2 | Individually or collectively , they must have made a decision to keep their wits about them for the committee meeting . |
3 | If you intend to tile over existing tiles , you will have to drill holes through them for the masonry pins . |
4 | Bénéteau will build a maxi for them for the race . |
5 | A day 's journey with small children , or alternatively getting someone to care for them for the day , is not easy . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Therefore price competition between them for the right to sell to the retailers would drive price to marginal cost . |
9 | Because facing such questions has brought the work on long-term memory in Aplysia into the same biochemical arena as my own in the chick , I want to postpone considering them for the present and instead look at some of the problems which , in its singlemindedly reductionist approach , Aplysian orthodoxy — at least the orthodoxy of the mid-1980s , as I suspect that the position is now becoming much more flexible — has ignored . |
10 | The door had n't opened , but there had n't been another sound out of them for the rest of the night . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | These have to be married with the individual dreams of each business who , in addition to achieving the best they can ask for their business , have to perform and deliver what the board has asked of them for the company as a whole . |
13 | He was in command of the local corps of yeomanry and quickly gathered about ten of them for the defence of Carewscourt . |
14 | ought to pass a vote of thanks to both of them for the sterling work they have done and I would be more than happy to er thank you |
15 | Mary found tiger lilies and Hope , discovering Mr Robinson 's prize of six bottles of good claret , bought two of them for the evening . |
16 | 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) ) . |
17 | I 'd like one of them for the landing . |
18 | Hollywood 's worst in the movie line has recruited hundreds of them for the gangs of race-course roughs , motor bandits , and smash-and-grab thieves . ’ |
19 | Prime amongst them for the IBM PC and its compatibles are 123 from Lotus Development , Multiplan from Microsoft , Smart from Innovative Software and Supercalc from Sorcim . |
20 | These applications and others like them for the microprocessors have growing importance in the Third World . |
21 | But whatever their position is by Wednesday , supporters hope to see them put their disappointments behind them for the Aldershot Senior Cup final . |
22 | Participants were delighted to be able to welcome our President , Lady Braithwaite and Sir Franklin Braithwaite and also to have with them for the day Hilda Hewitt , Edith Harlow and Jean Parmiter . |
23 | This is that city which readers of Crime and Punishment carry with them for the rest of their lives . |
24 | I recently heard of a family who invited to church some friends who were staying with them for the weekend . |
25 | The Gnomes had rolled the designs for the new Crown Jewels into cylinders and packed them carefully into long , hollow tubes , which they had brought with them for the purpose . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | So you 'll have to go in yourself with them for the interview . " |
28 | Quelle horreur : many 's the time I have found myself torn between throwing people like him out and putting up with them for the sake of the cash-till . |
29 | Christians , they complain , should refrain from criticism , and instead join with them for the good of each other and mankind in general . |
30 | They have an incurable handicap which will remain with them for the duration of their lives . |