Example sentences of "for [pers pn] [conj] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 'll be the press gang for thee if we do n't run off , and God knows what 's for me without thee . ’ |
| 2 | It is possible that your local authority may ask you to audition for them after you have been offered a place . |
| 3 | He 's he 's out yes and there are two or three in which have erm you know they 're sorry that they 've gone back and er we feel sorry sort of for them that they 've dropped into and a lot of our young lads have got mortgages and all that but there are some gone back er they need not people erm they 'd finished rearing their families and everything . |
| 4 | They all speak excellent English and going on last year , are so pleased to be in Britain and so appreciative of everything arranged for them that they make an easy and rewarding group to entertain . |
| 5 | I 've looked after the kids for them while they 've gone to vote , anything to get them here , that was the thing . |
| 6 | Huh , you have more sympathy for them than I do . |
| 7 | This is going to be a very er difficult and expensive application for them but we have a successful coal industry the jobs associated with it we 've got to balance economic interests and environmental interests and I believe we can do so . |
| 8 | ‘ Councils are supposed to provide sites for them but they do n't , ’ I protested , feeling a sudden sympathy for an oppressed minority . |
| 9 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |
| 10 | I do n't know how long it was that things had been going badly for them but I do know there were problems . |
| 11 | Very big , and also for the West Germans , because they 've got to absorb these sixteen million or so new er citizens and they 've got to pay for them until they pay for themselves , and meanwhile they 've got to carry various international costs , especially payments to Russia for the Russian troops who are going to stay on for three or four years , and pay for them to withdraw and pay to build barracks for them in , in Russia so that they can withdraw . |
| 12 | They 're OK , we guess , which does n't say much for them until you realise that thousands of their guitar-laden brethren are desperately striving to funk up and freak out and end up sounding merely like a 15th rate version of something that was once quite good . |
| 13 | ‘ I really do feel sorry for them because they know how hard their parents have worked to raise money for the computers , ’ she said . |
| 14 | The Italians have mae it work for them because they have been able to inject a comfortable , relaxed mood . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's worse for them because they blame themselves for having provided me with the financial means to take a plebeian job . ’ |
| 16 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 17 | You 're making it easier for them because you want to believe what they 're saying . |
| 18 | Music is a means of catharsis for them and they say they like to do things in extreme . |
| 19 | This apparently is the system which works in the family : ‘ He does favours for them and they do favours back ’ ( Pahl R.E. , 1984 , p. 340 ) . |
| 20 | Users have to ensure that the software works for them and they do not end up working for the software . |
| 21 | Now the thing that worries me is that the N R A and our linkage with them is I do n't think it 's early days for them and they have n't got the the power and the erm law behind them to enforce it as the way which I think most of us would like to think of have a erm erm an organization tha that can in fact start bringing the law in that if people fail to do what they say erm so that aspect I think I now Chris also mentioned this erm tilting in West Sussex and again that mentioned in the structure plan , because I six mill a year but in ten years that 's two and a half inches . |
| 22 | To , to make people feel sorry for them and they have no shame at all in breaking limbs and distorting their features and all so that kind to make themselves look as pitiful as they possible can because they 're going to live a life of a beggar and they tell us it 's very profitable being a beggar in some lands , people can make in this country they reckon up to in places like London a hundred pounds a day being a beggar that 's more than you earn a day is n't it ? |
| 23 | check it out for them and they want a quote , say it takes two blokes an hour each |
| 24 | As for the others : we 've trained hard for them and we think we have a good chance in the swimming . |
| 25 | They do n't set their own terms about what they expect for a good quality of life , so other people do it for them and we do a bad job of it . ’ |
| 26 | No , I know , well I mean what is there for young people to look forward to these days and I feel really sorry for them and I mean all I hope is that Jenny will get a job |
| 27 | You 'd expect about ta , thanks you used to think cor christ and then I , I mean all the bits I did for them and I remember one woman getting up saying come on Flo come and stretch and she said who are you ? |
| 28 | Sometimes you have the same person and you have lots of different scores for them and you see whether they 're correlated but most o more often than not what we 're talking about is a number of people and to see whether the pairs of scores in some way are related Now this is probably a bit more important . |
| 29 | ‘ The country areas are a softer option for them where they know some areas are no-gos for us because of manoeuvrability and the terrain . |
| 30 | Criticizing a scooterist do n't want them in town and then put functions on and cheap beer for them when they come . |