Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 2 | They asked him for a swimming pool and a better playground , but he was n't making any promises . |
| 3 | There 's some that are going up at the moment to this pond , they develop them for the next three years to spend their life in the fresh water feeding , and what we 're trying to do here is to see just how many there are in , in the river er as a total . |
| 4 | What is more , the Spirit who has become resident in the followers of Jesus mediates to them the victory over the world which Jesus had ( 4:4 ) as they trust him for the power to overcome temptation ( 5:3,4 ) . |
| 5 | they want it for a |
| 6 | If the Government can do it for the Bosnians , why ca n't they do it for the homeless ? |
| 7 | It 's very difficult to get professional advice that is apposite — you used to be able to get free advice from the Ministry of Agriculture but now they charge you for the privilege of being told how not to farm . ’ |
| 8 | they were having one here as well and erm they booked it for the day and they were staying there overnight , cos they were , they 've got a house and they were gon na let guests stay at their house and while they stayed up there and then |
| 9 | included in mine , so it meant that they paid me for the summer holidays cos I did n't officially really |
| 10 | They protected themselves for a long time . |
| 11 | I wanted to cut my hair short , and they allowed it for a while , until they discovered from a ‘ friend ’ that I am a lesbian , and then they tried everything they could to stop me dressing as I used to . |
| 12 | Well that 's what everybody sings to me when them and they meet me for the first time or get introduced to me . |
| 13 | They released me for the day and I sat in a cab desperately trying to keep calm whilst my mind raced through the practicalities of getting Mum back — cancelling the filming , getting the kids looked after for a while if … |
| 14 | An annuity is an arrangement with a financial institution whereby , if you are over retirement age and do not want to leave your property to anyone when you die , they will effectively buy your house from you ( albeit at a bit less than the market price ) , give you guaranteed security of tenure until you die , and turn the money that they pay you for the house into a regular income for life . |
| 15 | Firstly , when UCCA get the form they photoreduce it for the universities . |
| 16 | Did they take you for a week and show you |
| 17 | Mm , I 'll go back with him and he 'll wear his bloody shoes when I go back with him , how much they charging you for the repairs ? |
| 18 | They ask you for every kind of documentation you can imagine and then treat you like some kind of being that is half-human , half-dog , who does n't have any private life of her own . |
| 19 | He had the operation the next day and they took us for a couple of minutes and that was it — they just did n't care . |
| 20 | It is the vision of people looking up from the depths , de profundis , from the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ and of despair , and seeing a new light : ‘ unlooked for , glittering and bright ; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered , and they took it for a sign , and called it Gil-Estel , the Star of High Hope ’ . |
| 21 | The kind of friends she had were loyal by definition , and they liked her , in their eyes she was a woman who could do no wrong ( she was only separated , mind , not divorced ) , they were ready to do any thing for her and when she would not let them they did it for the girl . |
| 22 | In a decade , Clinton 's reforms may salvage the economy' short-term , they do nothing for the deficit . |
| 23 | Our answer is that they bought it for no money down because there were able to . |
| 24 | The band was down below and then a loft , a long wooden just like a dance hall up above and they just did that and they just they had tables set and then they removed them for the dances . |
| 25 | They influenced him for a lifetime , though he would sometimes grump , ‘ I write like a copper , dun I ? ’ |
| 26 | They admire themselves for a time . |
| 27 | Did they charge you for the ? |
| 28 | Josiah Wedgwood may have boasted his intent of " making such machines of men as can not err " but he could not nail his potters to the floor and was left to fume when they absented themselves for the local " wakes " . |
| 29 | Suppose you 're an expert document examiner outside the service and they call you for the defence . |
| 30 | They won it for the outstanding service that they had given two clients , Comfort Cooling and PSA . |