Example sentences of "i [vb base] them for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I make them for the shops to sell , ’ she told Virginia . |
| 2 | All the perennials are bought in containers and I grow them for a year in their pots to see how they cope with the conditions , then I plant them out in the garden . " |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If any of our political masters , the faceless bureaucrats , the time-serving , vote-chasing , career politicians who sanctioned this devastation , ever read these lines , then I curse them for their crass stupidity and their wanton rape of my native land . |
| 5 | There 's a man and a woman sitting at a table by the window , and I watch them for a bit . |
| 6 | I watch them for a bit , but they do n't win nothing . |
| 7 | I watch them for a bit . |
| 8 | I watch them for quite a while . |
| 9 | Having read both books for the first time , I really enjoyed them , but once I read them for the second time , I saw how little there really was to them . |
| 10 | I wear them for my own enjoyment but equally for theirs . |
| 11 | Councillor is on record , in fact not long after taking his job , that he does n't care much for state education , he prefers , grant maintained schools , the assisted places scheme , which I 'm pleased to say , Lord Mayor , we do n't operate in this district and neither did the Tories when they were in power and I applaud them for that |
| 12 | I like them for being different , ’ said Corman . |
| 13 | I get them for Bill for snap . |
| 14 | Then I produce them for them and erm if they need any help reading them and so on I give them that . |
| 15 | That 's right , yes , I run the Search Room there , which means that erm people come in to Pelham House , they usually meet me at a desk on the end of a telephone and I put them onto the documents that they want to look at and I make sure they 're ordered up from where they 're kept in one of the various repositories and strongrooms that we 've got , and then I produce them for them and erm if they need any help reading them and so on I give them that . |
| 16 | Whenever I am working with someone I know and trust I ask them for a quick trim . |
| 17 | I use them for breaking down annual goals , to monthly goals . |
| 18 | Anyway , the people at SIS are big enough to take it and I respect them for that . ’ |
| 19 | I respect them for the medieval certainty of their beliefs and for the casuistical cunning of their arguments . |
| 20 | Instead of blaming them for a small error , I praise them for being 99 percent perfect . |
| 21 | I admire them for their attitude . |
| 22 | I admire them for being so up front about their religious activity because it puts them right in the front line against anti-Semitism . ’ |
| 23 | I LIKE The Cult , I admire them for the sheer daftness of their post- ‘ Electric ’ output — all gung-ho riffing and ludicrous lyrical conceits — and even found much to savour in the absurdly ambitious ‘ Sonic Temple ’ , where they attempted to sound like all their favourite bands all the way through each song , but ‘ Ceremony ’ is an extremely dull affair . |
| 24 | Other women do and I admire them for it . |
| 25 | I admire them for being able to sit there in front of everybody and say they actually , what they 've been through because it must have been sheer hell er , trying to come off and withdrawal symptoms , I mean , I do n't know much about it cos I 've never taken well I smoke |
| 26 | And when , as shadow education spokesman , I was a frontline campaigner in the nineteen eighty seven election , it was the G M B which provided me with the necessary facilities to carry out that role , and I thank them for it . |
| 27 | We have enjoyed the loyal and industrious support of our employees throughout and I thank them for their individual contributions to the year 's achievements . ’ |
| 28 | This is not because I take them for granted — On the contrary I marvel every year at the miracle of that never-empty basket in The Undercroft and the crowds round the stalls . |
| 29 | ‘ If , for any reason , Elinor ca n't sign cheques , then I suggest I sign them for her , ’ Adam said . |
| 30 | Charles , her husband , jokes all the time about what I 'm wearing , insists that I join them for formal dinners late at night , and then teases me throughout them because I 've never eaten squid before , and I do n't know what haggis is made of . |