Example sentences of "[vb pp] they for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) . |
| 2 | His mother had not joined them for the meal , bowing in this regard to the T'ang 's wishes . |
| 3 | Er I think they genuinely believe their case , it 's not a case that I believe , but I I 've always genuinely respected them for the case they take . |
| 4 | Her duties as parents had been completed , she had prepared them for the future , they could now stand on their own feet , so she let them go . |
| 5 | His sad tones prepared them for the news as he announced that German troops had not withdrawn from Poland and consequently Britain was now at war with Germany . |
| 6 | I have n't seen them for a while |
| 7 | Their own educational socialization primarily through classics could not adequately have equipped them for the task of the " total " administration of a national culture . |
| 8 | However , for a number of these symptoms , more people in residential homes had had them for a year or more : the proportions were 31 per cent against 20 per cent for drowsiness , 22 per cent against 14 per cent for dizziness , 19 per cent against 11 per cent for loss of appetite and 4 per cent against one per cent for bedsores . |
| 9 | Beth had a love for children , but how she wished she could have borne them for the man she loved , instead of the man she was indebted to . |
| 10 | We have geared them for the charter market . ’ |
| 11 | The old gag had n't fooled them for a minute . |
| 12 | We 've known them for a while , they 've been travelling to games solidly for years and are better fans on that score than I 've ever been . |
| 13 | You have seized them for no crime at all . |
| 14 | The signing of Byrne is exciting … he gets goals … has scored them for a list of clubs … |
| 15 | Swan felt very much at a disadvantage , especially when Amaranth told him that she had promised to go to The Times/Sunday Times party with Charles , who had left them for a moment to have a quick word with Peter Riddell of The Times . |
| 16 | Her father had left them for a woman in France . |
| 17 | Anyone who did n't know them might have taken them for a couple of businessmen out for a Sunday afternoon stroll . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps he 's taken them for a holiday ? ’ |
| 19 | The most important of these points are three in number , and I have expressed them for the sake of clarity in less technical and exact terminology than Halliday uses . |
| 20 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |