Example sentences of "and [verb] they for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If these words , often carelessly spoken , can have such a long-term and devastating effect , think how much good we can do by encouraging our children and praising them for what they have achieved . |
| 2 | Mobutu resisted pressure from Western governments to enter into a power-sharing arrangement with Tshisekedi and attacked them for their " flagrant interference " ; he understood , he said , " that Western aid is mixed with all sorts of threats and blackmail " . |
| 3 | To embroider the sampler , we turned to some multiple agencies and asked them for their recommendations of good value on a £1,000 booking for four people . |
| 4 | I moved some girls into the middle and asked them for their guesses . |
| 5 | Texas Instruments , having recognised the wider implications of producing high performance processors , has attached great importance to its C compilers and produces them for their TMS320C25 and TMS320C3x . |
| 6 | God seems to get a real kick out of choosing people who think that they are useless , or who others think are useless , and using them for something important and useful . |
| 7 | By taking V2s from here , from the mountains , shipping them back and using them for their own experiments . |
| 8 | At the end of the question period , refocus attention on yourself through repeating your main points , wishing everyone well and thanking them for their attention . |
| 9 | Our Chairman , Richard Newcombe , who has taken a particular interest in the museum , then spoke , welcoming the guests and thanking them for their support . |
| 10 | It controlled public resources in the manner of a private owner , and used them for its own purposes . |
| 11 | It is therefore a bonus for the theory that clay replicators synthesized organic molecules and used them for their own purposes . |
| 12 | She wants me to take them down and swap them for one . |
| 13 | She records them , acknowledges them — unless I 'm being incommunicado for some reason — and replays them for me later . |
| 14 | These are acceptable , but the witch who , at ‘ by the pricking of my thumbs ’ , held up his thumbs and twiddled them for us all to check out was excessive . |
| 15 | Central Council appreciates the contribution made by the RAFALOs and thanks them for their efforts . |
| 16 | This is what allows you to adjust the colours and mix and match them for your new palette . |
| 17 | used to take 'em and wash 'em for me |
| 18 | So you your Mam could shove them in the oven and roast them for you , take your own bucket . |
| 19 | Some person noticed them and hated them for what they were . ’ |
| 20 | Have them made fit for you when your mourning is laid by , and wear them for your good mistress 's sake . |
| 21 | Surely it is time we stopped talking of elephants as if they were a commodity to be traded , like so many cans of paint , and accept them for what they are , ancient and splendid fellow inhabitants of the earth who share with us the joys of close kinship bonds and grieve when they are severed . |
| 22 | And those if you would , for those who have not got them available , erm , we can have them copied and obtain them for you , but I suspect all of all of you sitting round the table will have P P G with you . |
| 23 | He went in and fed them for us sometimes , to give us a break , and would phone us up if he thought there were any difficulties . |
| 24 | Mam ! ’ and scream them for me . |
| 25 | the appropriate days and rewarded them for their votes with meals and refreshments at Magdalen . |
| 26 | It 's opened this week … local firms are out in force , so let's go and join them for our Friday Feature |
| 27 | ‘ It 's called feminism , ’ said Henry , ‘ and I hope you never get it , because it is absolutely awful and it makes you swell up to an enormous size and when you have it really badly you go round bonking men on the head and blaming them for everything . |
| 28 | This is to do with drawing people into a situation and asking them for their thoughts and feelings . |
| 29 | Some of us were concerned about speaking to customers and asking them for their observations . |
| 30 | Occupied by its clichés , its principles , and its strategies , the sick mind of the central colourless figure unwittingly deploys subversive discursive counter-strategies that turn these ‘ conventional weapons ’ back on themselves and expose them for what they are . |