Example sentences of "had [verb] them for " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are moderate to severe pain relievers , but numerous instances were cited in the interviews where GPs had prescribed them for relatively minor ailments , some of which were fictitious , such as headaches , backache and arthritis . |
| 2 | Fate had parted them for ever , but she would never know any other man in the way she had known Tyler . |
| 3 | She confessed that Sally-Anne had written them on old ones Miss Laura had collected on earlier trips , and Miss Laura had posted them for her , to deceive us . |
| 4 | The Imperium had assigned them for life to Quintus , to assist in its uplift . |
| 5 | What could be anticipated with confidence was the beneficial results of redistribution , for Unionists had expected them for some time . |
| 6 | In addition to securing Commonwealth support for their position , the British sought to consolidate their own aviation policy into some definable form , something which had eluded them for several years . |
| 7 | After the resurrection Jesus had to rebuke them for their dullness before showing them once again — and this time more explicitly — how , like the spokes of a wheel , the whole message of the Bible converged on himself . |
| 8 | They had known all along they had a good , competitive car ; a single mistake had mired them for three races ; it was now solved and they could build for the future . |
| 9 | Others who were less impressed by what they knew about Law were surprised by what they discovered of his actual abilities , perhaps because his anonymity had prepared them for the worst . |
| 10 | Her duties as parents had been completed , she had prepared them for the future , they could now stand on their own feet , so she let them go . |
| 11 | No one had seen them for days . |
| 12 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 13 | Tony 's mother had made them for this occasion , and though recipes vary slightly the end result is a large currant biscuit . |
| 14 | Carolyn commented on them , and for once incurred Bryony 's pleased attention , as she explained how a friend had made them for her to an ancient design , and that unlike any shoes you could buy , they were made to last a lifetime , were completely healthy and natural , and did not threaten to deform the foot or posture in any way . |
| 15 | A policeman had suspected them for loitering about , they would n't give a reasonable explanation or account of themselves . |
| 16 | they had to sell them for three and threepence , three farthings . |
| 17 | I had bought them for very little money from a woman who looked needy . |
| 18 | It were real they were really good blankets my mother had bought them for us for er er wedding present |
| 19 | However , for a number of these symptoms , more people in residential homes had had them for a year or more : the proportions were 31 per cent against 20 per cent for drowsiness , 22 per cent against 14 per cent for dizziness , 19 per cent against 11 per cent for loss of appetite and 4 per cent against one per cent for bedsores . |
| 20 | Kalchu laughed and , teasing him , asked how much he had sold them for . |
| 21 | They had raised them for generations . |
| 22 | Mum had found them for me in the house at Lochgair . |
| 23 | Wycliffe put them all back where he had found them for Scales to look at . |
| 24 | Mum always opened the letters but I had to read them for her . |
| 25 | Then in late July I had my clubs stolen again I had left them for ten minutes at about 9.30pm and when I came back they were gone and it was at the time when I was about to play in two large junior competitions . |
| 26 | Her father had left them for a woman in France . |
| 27 | Swan felt very much at a disadvantage , especially when Amaranth told him that she had promised to go to The Times/Sunday Times party with Charles , who had left them for a moment to have a quick word with Peter Riddell of The Times . |
| 28 | The medical profession were n't the fools I had taken them for . |
| 29 | The crux of the matter today is that those children were not listened to or believed when they complained to the very people in whose care we had put them for protection . |
| 30 | They did not even receive presents their mother and other people had sent them for Christmas . |