Example sentences of "i [verb] them for " in BNC.
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| 31 | I like them for being different , ’ said Corman . |
| 32 | I walked them for three or four hours a day , but nothing tired them or won their love . |
| 33 | I get them for Bill for snap . |
| 34 | I thanked them for praying for me and seeing me now , hoped they thought their efforts worthwhile . |
| 35 | I watched them for some time , thinking smugly ‘ Ha ! |
| 36 | I could n't get to sleep , and I noticed in the air there was a red light flashing , and several other green lights flashing , and they were coming , helicopter noises , and er I watched them for several minutes and they seemed to be landing and one was stationary in the air , without moving , and rest were going up and down . |
| 37 | When I called them for their view , the spokesman for ‘ Countryside and Land matters ’ was somewhat iffy . |
| 38 | Then I produce them for them and erm if they need any help reading them and so on I give them that . |
| 39 | That 's right , yes , I run the Search Room there , which means that erm people come in to Pelham House , they usually meet me at a desk on the end of a telephone and I put them onto the documents that they want to look at and I make sure they 're ordered up from where they 're kept in one of the various repositories and strongrooms that we 've got , and then I produce them for them and erm if they need any help reading them and so on I give them that . |
| 40 | I washed them trainers our Johnny given me and I cleaned them for him to try and save and then them black shoes for school to save his boots for the |
| 41 | Whenever I am working with someone I know and trust I ask them for a quick trim . |
| 42 | Whatever it was , the moment I saw the Parsons I knew them for British as surely as though they 'd had the word stamped on their hides like bacon . |
| 43 | those four tapes , incidentally , I saw , you know the compil the Bach , Beethoven , Mozart and Tchaikovsky , I saw them for fifteen pound . |
| 44 | ‘ I had to coax two into it because they are not very experienced cook , but I chose them for that very reason , ’ he says . |
| 45 | I use them for breaking down annual goals , to monthly goals . |
| 46 | I do n't know why I kept them for as long as I did . |
| 47 | At first I took them for Maria 's , though it seemed strange that she should be going down to the beach at that time . |
| 48 | ‘ I took them for a ride in a van and a walk through Epping Forest . ’ |
| 49 | I took them for the shrine in the loft one night , and have them to this day , little brown twists of dried plant like old Sellotape , stuck in a little glass bottle . |
| 50 | He give me them , I took them for three days , right , I did n't come down for a fortnight and Russell 'll tell you that , I was high as a kite . |
| 51 | Anyway , the people at SIS are big enough to take it and I respect them for that . ’ |
| 52 | I respect them for the medieval certainty of their beliefs and for the casuistical cunning of their arguments . |
| 53 | Well I bought them for Amanda and she was doing Romeo and Juliet . |
| 54 | Well I bought them for Amanda and she was doing Romeo and Juliet . |
| 55 | And put them your side since we found that I did them for you . |
| 56 | Say what can I get them for then ? |
| 57 | Instead of blaming them for a small error , I praise them for being 99 percent perfect . |
| 58 | I admire them for their attitude . |
| 59 | I admire them for being so up front about their religious activity because it puts them right in the front line against anti-Semitism . ’ |
| 60 | I LIKE The Cult , I admire them for the sheer daftness of their post- ‘ Electric ’ output — all gung-ho riffing and ludicrous lyrical conceits — and even found much to savour in the absurdly ambitious ‘ Sonic Temple ’ , where they attempted to sound like all their favourite bands all the way through each song , but ‘ Ceremony ’ is an extremely dull affair . |