Example sentences of "had [verb] them for the " in BNC.

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1 Others who were less impressed by what they knew about Law were surprised by what they discovered of his actual abilities , perhaps because his anonymity had prepared them for the worst .
2 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 .
3 In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold .
4 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 .
5 He had to prepare them for the study of Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ) , Middle English ( that is , the language and literature of England from about 1200 until 1450 , including Chaucer ) and all the remaining periods of English literature up to the Victorian period .
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