Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] they for [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How should I prepare them for repainting ? |
| 2 | I criticise them for refusing to accept that they made a mistake and for refusing to take any action to put matters right , when it was patently obvious that everything was going disastrously wrong . |
| 3 | I admired them for doing openly what many women do in secret or under the respectable cover of marriage . |
| 4 | I thanked them for praying for me and seeing me now , hoped they thought their efforts worthwhile . |
| 5 | I use them for breaking down annual goals , to monthly goals . |
| 6 | On Saturday mornings she took them for riding lessons , waited and took them back , while Norm went out to play golf . |
| 7 | . And they were n't the Victorian prizes , that I won , I we got them for getting through an exam , because you could write or something , and er tt well , they were quite good books , and it was one way of getting a book . |
| 8 | We pay them for attending fires . |
| 9 | ‘ We use them for getting track information and arrival times , that sort of thing . |
| 10 | We thank them for helping us . |
| 11 | We thank them for helping us . |
| 12 | His herd numbered up to 200 head , including working bullocks used on the estates until local prejudice combined with shoeing difficulties encouraged him to abandon them for working horses . |
| 13 | British owners used to blame the princes for making racing prohibitively expensive ; now they blame them for making it prohibitively cheap . |