Example sentences of "they [adv prt] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we do take some of them on for work experience — we have to remember that we 'll always need a pool of new photographers to choose from . ’ |
| 2 | In the late seventies some people in the mainstream of literary study were inclined to believe , or halfbelieve , these ideas , or to try them on for size . |
| 3 | Watford will have little time to bask in their glory — manager Steve Perryman has pulled them in for training at lunchtime today . |
| 4 | ‘ They probably think we 've come to call them in for milking . ’ |
| 5 | We came to recognize the furtive knocking of these late callers , and tried to alleviate their disappointment by inviting them in for tea and sympathy . |
| 6 | Yeah , yeah well that 's what Pauline does sometimes when I go up she has them in for friendship , a bit of company in n it ? |
| 7 | The building societies are also under pressure to spend more money buying up empty properties and handing them over for rental . |
| 8 | Chilean fishermen are killing thousands of some of the world 's rarest dolphins so that they can chop them up for bait to catch the southern king crab . |
| 9 | Receptor molecules spit out their neurotransmitters once they have served their purpose , and the cell whence they came mops them up for reuse . |
| 10 | The Club bought several felled poles for £2 16s. 7d. and cut them up for course seats , a by the 8th tee today . |
| 11 | Many grandmothers who lived with their grandchildren helped look after them , made their clothes , got them up for school , minded them while their mothers went out to work : ‘ I thought of my grandmother even more so than my mother cos she was always there , you see . |
| 12 | " I 'll chop them up for kindling . " |
| 13 | Digging them up for fuel or compost , or draining and ploughing them for farming and forestry , causes significant emissions of carbon dioxide to the air . |
| 14 | and I thought well I 'm not gon na eat them now they 've been out of bag , so I thought oh I 'll boil them up for dog |
| 15 | I 'll put them up for auction . ’ |
| 16 | Dress them up for Christmas ! |
| 17 | wrap them up for Christmas . |
| 18 | The ducks will be hatched at the plant but the ducklings will be raised by local farmers who will send them back for packaging and freezing when they are around 10 weeks old . |
| 19 | He singles them out for favour … [ especially ] Arabs for whom he has a particular affection . ’ |
| 20 | In the absence of any other guidelines it is best to start the design of the artwork by defining the above factors , perhaps listing them out for reference . |
| 21 | The first king of the Franks established titles 1 to 62 [ for 65 ? ] , and he set them out for judgement . |
| 22 | The proctologist handed me three envelopes , one addressed to each of us , then told me that if I ever had piles I could rely on him to cut them out for cost . |
| 23 | Get them out for Easter I mean white lines up the seams |
| 24 | He was always punctilious ; she did not have a diary ; today must be the day she had thought so far off when he had proposed meeting Kit and Astrid in Paris and then taking all of them out for lunch . |
| 25 | The effect of this extended limitation is that , even where the next friend has started proceedings during the disability , the court will not strike them out for want of prosecution , since the minor or patient could start new proceedings when the disability ceases : Tolley v Morris [ 1979 ] 1 All ER 71 . |
| 26 | People really do have to understand the trauma we are talking about with moving people out of homes , the trauma that moving them out for refurbishment is bad enough . |
| 27 | But they would never take 'em out for day |