Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] they for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand , and shalt be for frontlets between thine eyes . |
| 2 | Might want them for a cup of tea . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll do 'em for a penny , if yer like , I got lots of spit . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ A ’ were with dressable wounds for the medical wards , ‘ B ’ were for the theatre , as they had wounds needing operative treatment , ‘ C ’ were for as much morphia as we could give them for a quiet inevitable death , ‘ D ’ were corpses . |
| 5 | We 'd keep them for a fortnight in those pigeon holes because most people claim stuff if they realize where they 'd left it within a day or two and then as the weeks went round we used to take stuff out of there and just lump it altogether , having duly labelled it up and erm record it and used to have tuppence an item if anybody lost anything . |
| 6 | If you could take them for a walk every day , from three to half-past four or something like that , I 'd be terribly grateful . |
| 7 | I thought we 'd try them for a change . |
| 8 | and this is why military strategies have always said we were gon na get we could hold them for a year , two years maybe three , but in the preventional warfare we would start loosing and military strategy have always said along that it would probably be somebody like France or us that would first use the nuclear weapon |
| 9 | They 'd hire them for a couple of months and then if they worked out they 'd keep them on , paying them a pittance , and if they did n't , they 'd say ‘ sorry ’ and the guy would go away . |
| 10 | If I were to ask a school-teacher to choose for me a sample which she considered to be a fair cross-section of her pupils so that I could interview them for a survey , there would almost certainly be a personal bias in the sample given to me . |
| 11 | It was , all in all , a tourist factory , at once pretentious , shabby and expensive , and boasting levels of service unique to Eastern Europe , for no one in Western Europe would tolerate them for a moment . |
| 12 | Members of the nursing profession , who once assumed that training for registration would equip them for a career in nursing now realise that this is no longer the case . |
| 13 | we will pay them for a start , that 's that 's the that 's the trouble with a lot other companies and er it would n't be professional of me to mention names , but let me tell you that er that 's one thing we do make sure that people erm get their money when when they 've earned it . |
| 14 | Show that forests have a tangible value kept as forests , for example for timber , and countries will manage them for a sustained cash yield . |
| 15 | and a Services Division , which will support them for a transitional period |
| 16 | When the child has gained a number of these it can exchange them for a rewarding object or activity . |
| 17 | ‘ But now I can use them for a different trade . ’ |
| 18 | You can ask them for a sick note from their doctor , but only if they have been away for more than seven days . |