Example sentences of "and [verb] them for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If these words , often carelessly spoken , can have such a long-term and devastating effect , think how much good we can do by encouraging our children and praising them for what they have achieved . |
| 2 | Yeah , well you then just go and change them for that one drawing ! |
| 3 | Mobutu resisted pressure from Western governments to enter into a power-sharing arrangement with Tshisekedi and attacked them for their " flagrant interference " ; he understood , he said , " that Western aid is mixed with all sorts of threats and blackmail " . |
| 4 | Then went to the Citizen 's Advice Bureau ( CAB ) at Wembley , as my husband had suggested , and asked them for information about how to join a union . |
| 5 | To embroider the sampler , we turned to some multiple agencies and asked them for their recommendations of good value on a £1,000 booking for four people . |
| 6 | They were always touching each other ; they fucked the lecturers and asked them for money for drugs . |
| 7 | I moved some girls into the middle and asked them for their guesses . |
| 8 | Erm he wrote to Photo Gallery and asked them for er an exhibition date and they gave him one in nineteen ninety . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Bootleggers then copy the film onto hundreds of VHS tapes and sell them for up to £12 a piece . |
| 12 | When will the right hon. Gentleman give that consistency and leadership to the police and back them for a change ? |
| 13 | After abandoning an appeal against the decision , Barclays agreed to reinstate the women and compensate them for loss of earnings . |
| 14 | We are most interested in the idea of networking , sharing skills such as translation and using them for distance learning . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | By taking V2s from here , from the mountains , shipping them back and using them for their own experiments . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The leaflet accused the Moslem of kidnapping children and using them for ritual purposes . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They arranged them on the sand lemons or onions or oranges — in careful little piles and sold them for so much a pile . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I 'd like if I may , to take this opportunity of paying tribute to the er helpful , cooperative attitude that the auditing practices board displayed in what were often long and very complex discussions and to thank them for the clear and helpful statement with which they shortly er plan to issue er to er accompany these order and to bring them into practical effect . |
| 23 | Regina Royal Ginseng and Regina Evening Primrose Oil take those two remarkable natural substances and combine them for the first time with Regina 's fresh Royal Jelly . |
| 24 | The corridors of the BBC are long and pea-green ( the 1984 setting of Orwell 's book , reputedly ) , and I followed a uniformed attendant through and round them for the obligatory ten miles before happening upon Studio B10 . |
| 25 | Shorten the legs of that ugly iron bedstead , hack off the top and bottom rails and send them for salvage . |
| 26 | It achieved temperatures over a million degrees and sustained them for several milliseconds . |
| 27 | He covers it with his other hand , draws his fists apart and holds them for GUIL . |
| 28 | At the end of the question period , refocus attention on yourself through repeating your main points , wishing everyone well and thanking them for their attention . |
| 29 | Our Chairman , Richard Newcombe , who has taken a particular interest in the museum , then spoke , welcoming the guests and thanking them for their support . |
| 30 | The experts have only to accept that the joint sessions also used groups of models kitted-out for each occasion by Rembrandt from his well stocked theatrical wardrobe and used them for painting as well as for drawing , to come to realize that their efforts over the last seventy years have been largely misdirected . |