Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] for them [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How parents can spend all that money for them to run down on the chest paddling with their hands on the dirty pavement ! |
| 2 | Another opportunity for them to do it again . |
| 3 | Another point for them to remember is not to speak directly at the microphone but to aim instead just over the top of it ; this is to reduce the pick-up of breath noises and the distortion of plosive consonants . |
| 4 | We need some steel for them hanging graphics . |
| 5 | These girls were the ones who were always getting put in detention , never did any homework , smoked dope at 11 and started having sex at 14 — shoplifting was just another phase for them to go through . ’ |
| 6 | Stiff with pride — which she was now sick and tired of being told was a Leo trait — and buoyed up by the certain knowledge that it would have been morally indefensible for her to desert her father , Laura had taken some weeks to realise that there must surely have been another way for them to solve their problems . |
| 7 | When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) . |
| 8 | What REALLY pissed me off though was Girly Perm Keegan saying he could understand Leeds selling Le Turd because ‘ he had too much class for them to handle ’ . |
| 9 | From the point of view of the buyer , general exclusion clauses are obviously less popular , and , in general he sees little need for them to protect his own position . |
| 10 | It also meant that there was little incentive for them to invest in Britain since it was more profitable for them to invest in countries where profit margins were higher . |
| 11 | Whilst social provision allows retired people to exist , there is little scope for them to grow or make full use of their later years . |
| 12 | Their uniform ‘ acted like a red rag to a bull ’ on the population ; people had lost all respect for them held them to blame for their plight , and vented their anger o At the beginning of September , the SD agency in Kitzingen felt that the loss of confidence in the Party and the regime 's leadership was rapidly moving towards a dangerous level . |
| 13 | And there is nowhere in that area for them to go . |
| 14 | The other tenants say that life for them has never been better . |
| 15 | The best that I can say for a personality explanation is that it prevents executives from thinking about changing their behaviour , because it understandably makes little sense for them to undergo some kind of therapy . |
| 16 | It had a long , narrow study , a bedroom , an antechamber , and a big kitchen , and there was enough room for them to hold a private New Year 's ball . |
| 17 | Whether he come from this or not , but erm we were dredging the West Bank cos er the kind of ship we got there then were the big tankers and there were n't enough room for them to swing round , so we had to dredge part of the bank out to make the swinging berth and erm there we dredged a bone up about that size |
| 18 | In addition their mottled leaves significantly extend the season of interest , so be quite sure to allow enough space for them to reach their full potential glory . |
| 19 | Simmer potatoes slowly to reduce any tendency for them to break down during cooking . |
| 20 | Erm I must confess to doubting whether such a pool of talent exists and I share the views er of the Noble Lord , Lord Motterstone who in a very powerful and commonsense speech made this point an and a number of other ones , but I have to say that what I do think exists is the temptation to create posts for friends of the Government , a process of which has been going for far too long and I mem and I wonder if er members on the other side would defend this position as my Noble Friend Lord Allen said earlier , quite sincerely if , say , another party were in power before when such a time arrives it will then be of little avail for them to run around complaining , for they will have sown the seeds of their own dissatisfaction . |
| 21 | The Sainsbury 's Pictures for Schools scheme , launched by Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover , KG , on April 20 , will give a set of eight framed reproductions of specially selected paintings to each school for them to display for all the pupils to see . |