Example sentences of "[noun] for [pers pn] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to do all their printing for them for their photographers . . |
| 2 | Most college teachers are more down-to-earth : solid citizens and safe , intellectual craft workers , who mostly know and love their subject well enough to wish to share their enthusiasm for it with their students . |
| 3 | Thus , when drawing on evidence from Wales and Yorkshire which dealt with local as opposed to national forms ( i.e. communal traditions of language and dialect , pride in place , manners and customs , speech , song and dance , acting , and craftsmanship ) , the Committee is able to find a place for them within their overall vision of Englishness , by saying : " We believe it to be in the highest interests of English culture that local patriotism , with all that this entails , should be encouraged " . |
| 4 | The idea is that they feed the other side with what appears to be genuine material so as to establish their credibility and then the other side asks them to do things for them on their own home ground . |
| 5 | Doctors also marched : they knew that the new [ unemployment benefit ] scales meant increased difficulties for them in their desperate efforts to protect the health standards of the people against the ravages of poverty . |
| 6 | The College only hopes that the Russian authorities will be shamed into improving conditions for them in their homeland . |
| 7 | They stopped it see , so I did n't gain anything out of it , me mates at work they made a collection for me in their way . |
| 8 | Similarly it was in a private letter that a Cornish mine agent wrote in 1793 : The common tinners continue to be very refractory and insolent : many of them refuse to work , and have not gone underground for three weeks past — They have no cause for it for their wages have been rather too high lately than otherwise ; the consequence has been too much brandy drinking and other bad practices . |
| 9 | Mrs Wadland 's husband disappeared during the lambing season , the busiest time of year for them at their farm in Woodford Halse , Northamptonshire . |
| 10 | Thus , if S subscribes for 200 of these shares and pays the company for them at their face ( par ) value , S 's future personal liability for any debts incurred by the company is nil . |
| 11 | If young children , dependent on an adult for basic needs , learnt that the adult does not always come back , then this has far-reaching consequences for them in their own adult experience . |
| 12 | The Court of Appeal of Bermuda allowed the defendants ' appeal and gave judgment for them on their counterclaim . |
| 13 | In many cases companies might find alternative work for their employees , or even create new jobs for them within their capabilities . |