Example sentences of "them for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When parents relate to their children as if they were partners and look to them for the support and even sexual comfort that should come from other adults , the boundary surrounding and protecting childhood is broken . |
| 3 | And what 's more , we 'll have the power to charge them for the inconvenience that they cause us . |
| 4 | Because facing such questions has brought the work on long-term memory in Aplysia into the same biochemical arena as my own in the chick , I want to postpone considering them for the present and instead look at some of the problems which , in its singlemindedly reductionist approach , Aplysian orthodoxy — at least the orthodoxy of the mid-1980s , as I suspect that the position is now becoming much more flexible — has ignored . |
| 5 | It is inflated by the feeling that it should be large enough to " vindicate " plaintiffs by showing the world that their names deserve respect , and perhaps even larger to " console " them for the insult and injury of having their names taken in vain by circulation-grabbing newspapers . |
| 6 | I knew we would be without them for the return so there 's no point talking about it we have other players who can score . ’ |
| 7 | In an extreme case , someone may act on them for the reason that , or on the principle that , ‘ a little bit of what you fancy does you good ’ . |
| 8 | When they arrived at Auckland Alexander asked them for the silver and his Presence was such that they did not dare to tell him that they had no silver , so Joan said that it was ‘ in the bank ’ . |
| 9 | His sad tones prepared them for the news as he announced that German troops had not withdrawn from Poland and consequently Britain was now at war with Germany . |