Example sentences of "[vb infin] them for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two teenagers have chosen to bed down for the night in a freezer as part of their training for an expedition to the Artic Circle , They hope that a good night of shivering in sub-zero temperatures will prepare them for the trip . |
| 2 | This suggests that something is amiss with the job definition and , by implication , also with education and training which does not prepare them for the reality . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't need them for the moment , ’ said Apricot , ‘ because Bernard and I do n't do it . |
| 4 | More than a million bulbs have been planted and half a million annuals will succeed them for the summer . |
| 5 | Upon receipt of the proceeds of sale the trustees must invest them for the tenant for life and that person 's successors in title . |
| 6 | I said if I 've got to do a dozen sausage rolls for one I 'd better do them for the others . |
| 7 | When I was a child there was a damp place in the long meadow where there used to be a lovely yellow flower we call butterballs , and children would bring them for the teacher . |
| 8 | If the comparison is successful , a program-accessible register is loaded with the address of the compared words ; alternatively , A and L could be retained in program-accessible registers throughout the process , so that the programmer can interrogate them for the result of the search . |
| 9 | leave them there I 'm gon na use them for the top |
| 10 | This means that we can use them for the riding school , muck the out etc … and the owner pays for its feed . |
| 11 | They are costly and highly dangerous in the hands of those who might use them for the destruction of life . ’ |
| 12 | She could hardly thank them for the tears in her eyes . |
| 13 | Many writs are already framed and well recognized to meet the cases that usually arise ; you can have them for the asking , if you pay the fee . |
| 14 | Almost that , and I want to say that I have some sympathy for the lady who has children and just could n't entertain them for the day . |
| 15 | When I consider the striking natural beauties of such a river as that at Matlock , and the effect of the seven-storey buildings that have been raised there , and on other beautiful streams , for cotton manufactories , I am inclined to think that nothing can equal them for the purpose of disbeautifying an enchanting piece of scenery ; and that economy had produced , what the greatest ingenuity , if a prize were given for ugliness , could not surpass . |
| 16 | Some lay eggs among the stones , so camouflaged you would mistake them for the rocks themselves . |
| 17 | and they did n't reduce them for the sale . |
| 18 | All that energy for comparatively few sales , but she will get them for the paperback as she is very much the rising star of Black American fiction . |
| 19 | these are my children , I would n't harm them for the world . |
| 20 | We said we would n't charge them for the stage blocks . |
| 21 | Do n't punish them for the way in which they behave today and let them get away with the same thing tomorrow just because your own mood is different , or the matter is n't worth ‘ all that bother ’ anyway . |
| 22 | I 'm very well fed too , I think I shall ask them for the bill |
| 23 | Apart from anything else , I ca n't help feeling that if women let men get away with too much bad behaviour , men do not forgive them for the burden of guilt they then have to bear . |
| 24 | Well we should accept them for the sake of our own spiritual growth for one thing . |