Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | The change-over day from one occupancy to the next was on a Saturday , when our admirable Jane Jones arrived to clean and prepare it for the next lot . |
| 32 | ‘ We wish , my brother and I , we wish you to take some of our money and to invest it for us in — in such places where you invest your own . ’ |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Kalchu was ashamed of his drunkenness and Chola grumbled and rebuked him for it . |
| 35 | Mr Reynolds said he was ‘ disturbed ’ by the content of what Sir Hugh said on Wednesday and rebuked him for ‘ going public ’ . |
| 36 | Syl 's mother disapproved of this most bitterly and rebuked me for waste . |
| 37 | Because another one was er we come down the houses in here , empty houses and in , in the summer they used to grow flowers , Marguerites , and we used to go in the backyard , we were n't supposed to , er and cut these flowers and make them into bunches and , and sell them for tuppence and thruppence a bunch . |
| 38 | Bootleggers then copy the film onto hundreds of VHS tapes and sell them for up to £12 a piece . |
| 39 | If you buy an item at £1 and sell it for £1.50 , how much percentage profit have you made ? |
| 40 | He had originally intended to polish up the wood and sell it for five shillings , but when he was fortunate enough to obtain the gramophone he realised he should repair the machine and install it in the cabinet . |
| 41 | Sir Haydn 's family intended to seek an Abandonment Order for the line and sell it for scrap . |
| 42 | It was a good thing he had finally come to his senses and realized it for himself . |
| 43 | When will the right hon. Gentleman give that consistency and leadership to the police and back them for a change ? |
| 44 | He said and we 'll take it up and repair it for you . |
| 45 | He came back and hugged her for a while . |
| 46 | After abandoning an appeal against the decision , Barclays agreed to reinstate the women and compensate them for loss of earnings . |
| 47 | It is only after a long period of counselling that she has at last realised that she has to drop her charge against her father , and to forgive him for not being the person that she longed he should be . |
| 48 | We are most interested in the idea of networking , sharing skills such as translation and using them for distance learning . ’ |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | By taking V2s from here , from the mountains , shipping them back and using them for their own experiments . |
| 51 | But , increasingly , their own shops were also a highly successful means of serving this end ; many young couples were buying the lightweight fabrics , because they were so cheap , and using them for furnishing . |
| 52 | The leaflet accused the Moslem of kidnapping children and using them for ritual purposes . |
| 53 | On the basis of the principle of participation , for example , it is possible for man to justify controlling nature and using it for his own ends . |
| 54 | You have been surrounded by speech and using it for most of your life . |
| 55 | Guy Hunt , the Governor of Alabama , was indicted on Dec. 28 by a grand jury in Montgomery on charges of appropriating US$200,000 from his inaugural fund and using it for personal purposes . |
| 56 | A group of Czech teenagers allegedly made a few hundred copies of locally-produced computer software packages and sold them for $10 a piece , after advertising them via direct mail-shots . |
| 57 | They arranged them on the sand lemons or onions or oranges — in careful little piles and sold them for so much a pile . |
| 58 | However , the investor who had the luck or foresight to predict the fall could have bought November puts with an exercise price of 260p for 10p and sold them for 25p making a gross profit of 150 per cent . |
| 59 | I stole the candle from its socket and sold it for a crust of bread and a stoup of water from an ale wife . |
| 60 | I can do is , Mary had a metal cow she milked it with a spanner , she took it to the market and sold it for a tanner . |