Example sentences of "they for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't seen any of them for ages . |
| 2 | Funny is n't it how we meet people , how you can know them for ages then you just sort of talk to them , or once you start talking to them you realize that you 've got |
| 3 | Oh I have n't had none of them for ages packets of them . |
| 4 | Erm I do n't know I have n't been to them for ages now |
| 5 | No I 'm actually quite surprised at myself I 've got two Clippers and both of them I found and I 've had them for ages . |
| 6 | So we thought , go see these friends , have n't seen them for ages , we 'll take it with us , and they did n't open it , and we were really upset , because we , it was a present |
| 7 | Rupert Murdoch did not say that his Sky company and its associate Eurosport channel were ready yet to go head-to-head in rights fights with BBC when he announced a joint contract with them for England 's Test series in the West Indies this winter . |
| 8 | All the iron men make them for keepsakes . |
| 9 | We have applied to them for bonding and may choose to move down that route instead . |
| 10 | He then claims these propositions for the implicit extension of legal conventions ; that is , he claims them for law on his conception and so denies any gap in the law . |
| 11 | So if A sells goods to B who then decides to leave them for A to repair , A is a person who ‘ having sold goods continues or is in possession of the goods , ’ Pacific Motor Auctions v. Motor Credits ( 1965 P.C. ) . |
| 12 | The week Miles reviewed them for EVO they changed their name to the Pink Floyd . |
| 13 | According to Wells , the data from his research contradicts crude generalizations that are often made about some children as being ‘ deprived at home ’ of those language experiences that will prepare them for schooling , and assumptions that the school is a ‘ rich language environment ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | yeah , he looks like he 's taken them for protection cos he 's like and no one will come near with them cos they 're like , really if they 'd see ya |
| 16 | They may , however , ‘ advise their client and go to the bar for them for matters begun . ’ |
| 17 | A RANDY divorcee nicknamed Rocking Horse Wendy by her schoolboy lovers escaped a jail sentence yesterday — because she did n't charge them for sex . |
| 18 | He covers it with his other hand , draws his fists apart and holds them for GUIL . |
| 19 | Relentlessly he made them repeat every movement and worked them for hours on end until they were perfectly in unison . |
| 20 | Nature displayed in this form beats abstract art hands down ; the pictures are so breathtakingly beautiful that one can wallow in them for hours and quite forget geology . |
| 21 | I used to play with them for hours on end and they tore a big hole in the back of my coat during one rough and tumble . |
| 22 | Finally we got off in a street with enormous shops with beautiful window displays : I could have stood gazing at them for hours , but Mary pulled me away . |
| 23 | I 'd stare at them for hours . |
| 24 | Back he scampered , to thunderous acclaim and a blizzard of silver , wowing them for hours . |
| 25 | Without a guide you can follow them for hours without finding your way out of the bush . ’ |
| 26 | If I could , I 'd have watched them for hours . |
| 27 | erm Somebody on this morning 's course said that they quite like answering machines , they use them like note pads , and they ring up people they know have got an answering machine so they can just leave a message , they say it 's quicker than writing a letter , and it 's easier than talking to them for hours , you can just ring them up and leave a message on their answering machine like a sort of note pad , which I had n't thought of , but I suppose it 's rather good , is n't it ! |
| 28 | We should review the resources we have but do n't use and use them for mission . |
| 29 | But there can be no doubt from a candid examination of the New Testament accounts that the prime purpose of the coming of the Spirit of God upon the disciples was to equip them for mission . |
| 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 ) . |