Example sentences of "they [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupitres were adapted from these structures , although it is still uncertain who first employed them commercially for remuage . |
| 2 | Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time . |
| 3 | It serves them right for playing a game in which even the winners become losers if they try to repeat their success . |
| 4 | Well , it would serve them right for treating her like a baby . |
| 5 | But that 's for a mobility assistant where I go in and befriend somebody and they employ me to take them somewhere for two hours . |
| 6 | I have been able to get on with ‘ getting better ’ simply because my colleagues have taken responsibility for my work load ever since the Executive Committee Meeting in July , and I can not thank them enough for all that they have done . |
| 7 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
| 8 | To force cyclists to lock and unlock their bikes , detach and reattach shopping bags , lift off children and carry them perhaps for some distance , are all seen as ways of penalising cyclists and by implication encouraging the convenience of car use . |
| 9 | A variety of holidays in locations at home and abroad including guided tours have been arranged for them annually for many years . |
| 10 | As this liaison officer recognised , the basic level of skills training equipped them only for unskilled work and they had to learn to cope with compromise : |
| 11 | I would recommend them only for the casual observer who wants little apart from views of lunar craters . |
| 12 | The size and weight of the larger models would suit them only for a fairly hefty boat . |
| 13 | And the Beau Nash Room might just as well have been their luxury coach : twenty-three of them only for the minute , with Eddie Stratton now being held in custody by the New York Police , distanced by only a few yards , as it happened , from the mortal remains of his former wife ; and with Sam and Vera Kronquist , one of the three married couples originally listed on the tour , still in their room on the second floor of the hotel — Sam watching a mid-morning cartoon on ITV , and Vera , fully dressed , lying back lazily against the pillows of their double bed , reading the previous February 's issue of Country Life . |
| 14 | Rounding the bend from the top path down towards the stable she was brandishing a stick , beating the cows ' dripping rumps and cursing them aloud for refusing to hurry . |
| 15 | We tested chickens by restraining them gently for 15 seconds and then timing their recovery from their trance . |
| 16 | On a good day ( for the parents , that is ) children can be absorbed for hours in the imaginative construction of a world which depends on them alone for its realization and reward . |
| 17 | Secure the wire ends by twisting them together for a short distance to prevent the turns trying to unwind themselves . |
| 18 | But since some writers do seem to have an aversion to the hyphen — just as they have lost the art of splitting words in the logical places ( tran-sport , winds-creen , ins-pector , screwd-river , etc ) — let them run them together for clarity . |
| 19 | One 's called the Austin Special , and it 's really cool-looking with three hotted-up Danelectro-style lipstick tube pickups that you can either run as single-coils for that crinkly kind of clarity , or put them together for a humbucking sound . |
| 20 | We do not try to motivate them but simply gather them together for ease of reference . |
| 21 | Or if they 're well grown , use a rake to collect them together for composting . |
| 22 | Last autumn a conference in Toronto brought them together for an update and planning meeting . |
| 23 | A look that claimed her for his own and spoke of a love that would bind them together for always . |
| 24 | The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time . |
| 25 | Assuming that the seller can then re-sell them elsewhere for the same price as the buyer had agreed to pay , the seller will suffer no loss . |
| 26 | Say they started on a Monday at two o'clock in the afternoon , he or she will take them away for the first hour and go through some of the main points of their work here . |
| 27 | New Zealands should be brushed off , hosed down and dried before you put them away for the summer . |
| 28 | I 'd hidden them away for your birthday . ’ |
| 29 | He said he 'd put them away for a bit and give them to Oliver when he started smoking again . |
| 30 | But now I really can not justify repacking them and squirrelling them away for another 40 years . |