Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traps should wither kill them instantly or confine them for release elsewhere . |
| 2 | The humour inheres not just in the daffy selection of cultural allusions ( their native French accordion , some flamenco guitar , a few African horns ) but also in the way they take stiff , formal tempi ( waltzes and tangos ) and mockingly squeeze them for their stateliness . |
| 3 | I " fackins I commend thee for that ! |
| 4 | The corridors of the BBC are long and pea-green ( the 1984 setting of Orwell 's book , reputedly ) , and I followed a uniformed attendant through and round them for the obligatory ten miles before happening upon Studio B10 . |
| 5 | This is how they are currently treated when we use them as research tools or slaughter them for consumption at our tables . |
| 6 | ‘ Just go and lose yerself for a week , son . |
| 7 | When will the right hon. Gentleman give that consistency and leadership to the police and back them for a change ? |
| 8 | Simmer them for an hour . |
| 9 | Town says that , of Britain 's 100 most prescribed drugs , he can buy 67 abroad , sell them for 20 per cent less than the NHS price , and still make anything from 3 to 300 per cent profit . |
| 10 | Because another one was er we come down the houses in here , empty houses and in , in the summer they used to grow flowers , Marguerites , and we used to go in the backyard , we were n't supposed to , er and cut these flowers and make them into bunches and , and sell them for tuppence and thruppence a bunch . |
| 11 | " We sell them for a penny each , " Miss Poraway explained . |
| 12 | More and more horses are falling prey to rustlers who often sell them for slaughter abroad . |
| 13 | Bootleggers then copy the film onto hundreds of VHS tapes and sell them for up to £12 a piece . |
| 14 | Howar they used to work a lot with finishing the cattle sell them for . |
| 15 | But , I mean , they sell them round at Dash Hill for erm , they sell them for two hundred and fifty do n't , the shops |
| 16 | They trust me for my word and my attitude . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ When I said I was working with Michael Crawford , they said he would be a monster , eat me for breakfast , have me on toast and upstage me totally . |
| 18 | But who can tell the damage we do to our writing voices when we roughly silence them for long stretches ? |
| 19 | After abandoning an appeal against the decision , Barclays agreed to reinstate the women and compensate them for loss of earnings . |
| 20 | You reproach me for being stupidly repelled by a taste of which I have never dared to become fully aware . |
| 21 | ‘ And you hate me for all that , of course , ’ Luke accepted neutrally . |
| 22 | You probably hate me for saying that . ’ |
| 23 | I think that they only intend them for linings . |
| 24 | Yeah , well you then just go and change them for that one drawing ! |
| 25 | Cos if I lose twenty eight pound then you , then you sponsor me for |
| 26 | Whatever else such a strategy may achieve , it certainly does not manage to produce a situation in which children are politically indistinguishable from adults and it rests on premises which , unless they can be defended , gain nothing for any defence to the charge of arbitrariness . |
| 27 | All the iron men make them for keepsakes . |
| 28 | ‘ I make them for the shops to sell , ’ she told Virginia . |
| 29 | ‘ If your friends ’ mothers despise me for working in a supermarket , then they are to be pitied . |
| 30 | They will understand me too quickly ; they will turn my own generosity against me and despise me for the lovers I took ; and they will cast me as the woman who briefly threatened to interfere with the writing of the books which they have enjoyed reading . |