Example sentences of "would [verb] them for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd keep them for a fortnight in those pigeon holes because most people claim stuff if they realize where they 'd left it within a day or two and then as the weeks went round we used to take stuff out of there and just lump it altogether , having duly labelled it up and erm record it and used to have tuppence an item if anybody lost anything . |
| 2 | They 'd keep them for themselves . |
| 3 | I thought we 'd try them for a change . |
| 4 | If a policeman felt like having a lock-up , he 'd book them for obstruction . |
| 5 | Just because like they 'd leave them for us and we had n't changed them . |
| 6 | I got them for me , I 'd get them for me daughter but I do n't know if she likes them |
| 7 | They 'd hire them for a couple of months and then if they worked out they 'd keep them on , paying them a pittance , and if they did n't , they 'd say ‘ sorry ’ and the guy would go away . |
| 8 | He 'd kill them for this . |
| 9 | In Walsall Wood erm as I say , we used to have er two big bags full on a Fri Friday and then in the week we could go up but you 've got your bread but , you know , yo the men would be , I can just picture them with their little , all this pretty coloured paper would all be in little piles and when there were no customers , they would be wrapping the rice , the raisins , the currants , all in these pretty papers you see and they knew , I mean you 'd ask them for currants and they never sort of knew , I did n't quite understand how they could pick by , it 'd be by the paper you see . |
| 10 | He trained them to regular confession , and whenever any one of them was dying would prepare them for death , and be thankful when they died in penitence , peace and hope . |
| 11 | If a person has become disabled through no fault of their own and they 're not going to be provided with a benefit which would compensate them for being out of work , they will suffer enormously . ’ |
| 12 | Similarly , those who hoped that the more flexible regulations would qualify them for grant well in excess of the traditional 75% were doomed to disappointment . |
| 13 | On second thoughts , if he was to try and make sense of the puzzle , he would need them for reference . |
| 14 | We devised a system whereby three dealers would be asked to give an independent appraisal , and we would average them for an official evaluation . |
| 15 | And Zoya said she had got hold of the toilet rolls , and would bring them for Anna . |
| 16 | When I was a child there was a damp place in the long meadow where there used to be a lovely yellow flower we call butterballs , and children would bring them for the teacher . |
| 17 | Thank you everybody who said they would do them for next year . |
| 18 | The point is not that companies are ideal mechanisms for making decisions which have important social effects ( in the sense that we would choose them for this purpose other considerations being equal ) . |
| 19 | Perhaps Valerie would wash them for you ? |
| 20 | Like other writers at the turn of the century , Geddes and Thompson stressed the importance of women receiving an education that would fit them for motherhood , and of their choosing eugenically sound mates in order to ‘ beget supermen , of either sex , of course ’ . |
| 21 | When A.A. Matveev went as Russian minister to The Hague in 1699 eight young Russians were attached to his mission to gain the experience which would fit them for future diplomatic careers ; and during the next decade members of several important noble families studied in Europe for this purpose with government backing . |
| 22 | Eadmer noticed Anselm 's habit of trusting men long after others had seen their deceptions : but then at last he would recognize them for what they were . |
| 23 | It was , all in all , a tourist factory , at once pretentious , shabby and expensive , and boasting levels of service unique to Eastern Europe , for no one in Western Europe would tolerate them for a moment . |
| 24 | There they would meet some others , who would join them for the next stage . |
| 25 | They 'd be on cup three or four amid the toast fragments , still relaxed but just beginning to wake up to the day 's promise , when Mrs Goreng and myself would join them for what was left of the luke-warm coffee . |
| 26 | Some lay eggs among the stones , so camouflaged you would mistake them for the rocks themselves . |
| 27 | I mean , if anyone would pay them for it ? ’ |
| 28 | So now he would get them for something they might not have done . |
| 29 | Members of the nursing profession , who once assumed that training for registration would equip them for a career in nursing now realise that this is no longer the case . |
| 30 | The evangelist who tells us three times that Jesus contracted his perspective to concentrate on Jerusalem and that at Jerusalem the disciples had to await the coming of the Spirit that would equip them for mission , ends his second volume with a triple reminder that this good news , beginning from Jerusalem ( Luke 24:47 ) reaches Rome ( 19:21 ; 23:11 ; 27:24 ) . |