Example sentences of "i [verb] they for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price . |
| 2 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Whenever I am working with someone I know and trust I ask them for a quick trim . |
| 5 | I respect them for the medieval certainty of their beliefs and for the casuistical cunning of their arguments . |
| 6 | 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 . |