Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joanne often felt that she could have taught a topic to the whole class in a fraction of the time it was taking them to find it out for themselves . |
| 2 | I think we 'll be able to get them to put them in for us . |
| 3 | They got the jackets off , they did the job , they laid it out for us . |
| 4 | When they asked her down for meals she did n't come . |
| 5 | They asked me in for tea , and we all listened to the morning news on Radio Tonga , crackling over the miles from the aerials down in Tongatapu . |
| 6 | They moved it out for something reason so I had occasion to look at it more closely . |
| 7 | They let me out for the day and then , when he regained consciousness five days later , they let me out again to see him . |
| 8 | Sometimes , if the screws are happy , they let us out for a while , and sometimes we have exercise after dinner . |
| 9 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 10 | now it 's thirty five or thirty six I mean they put it up for the er crisis |
| 11 | They messed me around for days . |
| 12 | they booked it in for you and somebody said this is reserved and they forgot to take it off your |
| 13 | This was about a year before I joined John Mayall and in fact the band I was in , The Crusaders , had a gig there after they opened it up for rock'n'roll . |
| 14 | They landed us in for it between them . ’ |
| 15 | My , my sister- in-law , she w had to go in just before Christmas , had to rather suddenly she 's was diagnosed in the summer as having diverticulitis and they planned a sort of diet out to keep her really well and she was in terrible pain and they rushed her off for a scan and er she goes privately cos Vernon , I think actually his is BUPA that he 's in , he joined when it first came out and she wrote to me and she said oh I 'm , I just feel so lonely , there 's nobody to talk to , I 've got nobody to see or anything and she felt a bit cos she was n't really that ill |
| 16 | and they grassed it over for a children 's pre pre playground , now they want to turn it back , and extend the car park . |
| 17 | And we asked them to tie it up , the lads made a bloody job I think they tied it up for coming round . |
| 18 | did they take it out for you ? |
| 19 | Cos they did n't smear Biff right away , and when he did n't fight back they took him in for terrorgation … |
| 20 | And of course everyone knew all about it , just as they knew that the Mackays , poor souls , had done everything they could for the boy ever since they took him in for adoption . ’ |
| 21 | By Sunday evening , though , I was getting back to myself and expected to be let out in a day or two but they kept me in for the week , giving me tests , including an electrocardiogram . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Last Tuesday Nellie , my wife , had to go to hospital and they kept her in for a day and a night for eye tests . |
| 23 | And I rung for an ambulance and it came and we took her up and sat with her , and they kept her in for four days . |
| 24 | So they kept him in for a cat instead , but Jessie wanted a , then Jessie , she could 've just love a fluffy white , so . |
| 25 | They showed no sign of brotherly love as they battled it out for the runner-up spot before the record crowd . |
| 26 | In other words , they bowled them out for 83 , Extras top-scoring with 21 ; since most of the team either were or would be Test players , that feeling of contentment must have seemed well justified . |
| 27 | Well what have they taken it off for then ? |
| 28 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |
| 29 | They than asked what he had done to the police that they had it in for him . |
| 30 | But William 's grandad reckoned the real reason they had it in for him was because of the name . |