Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] they [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the late seventies some people in the mainstream of literary study were inclined to believe , or halfbelieve , these ideas , or to try them on for size . |
| 2 | It is also at least arguable that these sections of the UCTA prevent the seller from imposing an obligation on the buyer to permit the seller to exercise the options of alteration of the goods or taking them back for a refund , because such actions by the seller would be in breach of his warranty of quiet possession . |
| 3 | ‘ We may produce guidance to local authorities or call them in for private chats ’ . |
| 4 | Like the diligent ‘ style ’ journalist he is , Cohn notes them all down and offers them up for our delight . |
| 5 | ‘ I always wanted to work with a squad of young players and bring them on for a few seasons . |
| 6 | He blew a lot of his money on gambling , even slot machines , and buying cars before he got bored with them and sold them off for a fraction of the price he paid for them . ’ |
| 7 | But when someone tried to test the security of the spare wheel attached to the side of the body by pulling at it roughly and then , intrigued by the pair of leather driving-gauntlets resting on the front seat , fitted them on and passed them around for general examination he decided it was time to leave . |
| 8 | Well , she her , her sleeping habits during the day change to afternoons , and , well today she 's been she had about two hours this afternoon , so if we did our normal and gave her tea at five o'clock , and send them up for a bath at half past six , there 's no way she 'd be asleep . |
| 9 | Peel carried on playing their records and booking them in for sessions , despite their high degree of success . |
| 10 | The Club bought several felled poles for £2 16s. 7d. and cut them up for course seats , a by the 8th tee today . |
| 11 | Of course , this may lead them to run onto the rotted wood , which will give way and let them in for a long fall … |
| 12 | I 've got a continuation shot , well what I shall do is just try and line them up for a rush down to , which is not bad . |
| 13 | No he did n't er P C found some trousers , I 'm not sure where he got them from er and put them on for him . |
| 14 | And I used to take 'em round the pubs and put 'em up for raffles for Christmas . |
| 15 | Unable to meet the huge cost of the highly specialised asbestos de-contamination work then demanded of the entire Pullman set , SLOA agreed to sell the Pullmans to industrialist Sir William McAlpine ( better known to railway enthusiasts as the owner of Flying Scotsman ) and to hire them back for steam-charter use once the asbestos stripping work was complete . |
| 16 | I 'd read the various bits and pieces a couple of times now , looking for something deep and mysterious in it all but not finding anything ; I 'd even done a little research of my own , and discovered through mum that dad had some more of Rory 's papers in his study ; she 'd promised she 'd try and look them out for me . |
| 17 | Go to a pushbike shop they whip them off and whip them on for you you buy , you know , if you go out and buy one then just take wheel with you they 'll stick them straight on . |
| 18 | On return to the farm in the late afternoon there was likely to be a further round of gossip and conversation while grooming the horses and bedding them down for the night . |
| 19 | And holding them up for a little bit of erm laughter . |
| 20 | The local police kindly agreed to come in on the act and a few off-duty policemen pretended to stalk the burglars and locked them up for the night at a disused police station at Ironbridge ! |
| 21 | Our prime purpose is to glorify God in reaching men and women for Christ , building them up in Christ , and sending them out for Christ . |
| 22 | ‘ God may use latent psychic tendencies , ’ writes Canon Stafford Wright , ‘ and draw them out for his purposes . ’ |
| 23 | His second-in-command re-divided the men and sent them back for a second search of the places they had searched before . |
| 24 | Pulling the centre-half back left a gap in midfield which needed a link man to pick up passes from defence and lay them on for the forwards . |
| 25 | Indeed , Mr Pocklington and his ilk would take small cannon onto a suitable lake and fire them off for the edification of the plumber partridges who came to nest in the district . |
| 26 | To yank someone entirely out of their time and smack them around for not being of our time is perhaps a salutary but only a limited exercise . |
| 27 | The building societies are also under pressure to spend more money buying up empty properties and handing them over for rental . |
| 28 | Winning the toss Surrey put Worcestershire in and bowled them out for 25 . |
| 29 | I said do you want me to go and let them out for you ? |
| 30 | Block discounting — a finance house may buy a ‘ block ’ of debtors from a company at a discount , and follow them up for the company . |