Example sentences of "[verb] them for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm could could I suggest that the committee might like er to ask me to right to the W I to thank them for getting a new piano ? |
| 2 | We have also had support from our colleagues in Brussels ( see article on page 21 of this issue ) and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for taking the lead and to appeal to Johnson Matthey sites around the world to take up the challenge . |
| 3 | A dark giant of a man , possibly Tonio , leaned out of the lorry 's cabin to thank them for pulling out of the way . |
| 4 | And critics of the men inside both black and white communities have criticized them for causing bloodshed . |
| 5 | But environmentalists have criticized them for failing to address Southern countries ' real needs . |
| 6 | The Greeks were fond of using them for mounting on earrings , but it was the Romans who developed a passionate interest in pearls . |
| 7 | How should I prepare them for repainting ? |
| 8 | . And they were n't the Victorian prizes , that I won , I we got them for getting through an exam , because you could write or something , and er tt well , they were quite good books , and it was one way of getting a book . |
| 9 | ‘ You can take them off the instant you do n't need them for reading . ’ |
| 10 | Until this week , they had all their lessons together , but following a governor 's meeting , the school has agreed to segregate them for swimming lessons in the school 's pool . |
| 11 | Although McGregor was to be paid £50 000 , the same as the man he replaced , the British government had to pay Lazard Freres $4.1m. over five years to compensate them for losing McGregor . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Here their superiors criticise them for failing after they have been given such brilliant training . |
| 14 | The experts have only to accept that the joint sessions also used groups of models kitted-out for each occasion by Rembrandt from his well stocked theatrical wardrobe and used them for painting as well as for drawing , to come to realize that their efforts over the last seventy years have been largely misdirected . |
| 15 | The BBC Monitoring Service used them for deciphering ‘ jammed ’ radio broadcasts , and my solicitor , at least , was still dictating into an Edison Voicewriter in 1973 . |
| 16 | There are other delicious gestures drawing attention to the feet in La Fille Mal Gardée such as Mother Simone gently tapping her clogs as if thanking them for allowing her to show off her particular style of dance . |
| 17 | I bet they 're thanking them for getting two hundred and fifty nicker |
| 18 | The second was a letter to everyone who had volunteered , thanking them for offering to come , and saying when to turn up and what to bring . |
| 19 | And they have had many letters too — thanking them for giving the people of Tawau an electricity supply that is the envy of the rest of Eastern Malaysia . |
| 20 | If charges are intended to raise money , it seems odd not to impose them for staying in hospital or visiting a GP . |
| 21 | Below are some guidelines you could give them for using video on their own . |
| 22 | A policeman had suspected them for loitering about , they would n't give a reasonable explanation or account of themselves . |
| 23 | People think you could be there waiting to arrest them for drinking and driving in the car park . |
| 24 | Her parents offered no explanation when police boarded their plane at Chicago airport yesterday to arrest them for abandoning their children . |
| 25 | The booklet goes on to hail them for combining ‘ the warmth of sound and delicacy of nuance associates with European performances with the vigour and drive of the North American chamber ensembles — a stimulating blend of the best of the Old and New Worlds ’ . |
| 26 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 27 | No , I 've always admired them for doing it their own way and getting away with it all the way to the end . |
| 28 | Many teachers feel that their training inadequately prepares them for dealing with behaviour problems in schools ( Mongon 1984 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ But how can President Aquino overhaul the leadership of the armed forces after she has already commended them for putting down the coup ? ’ asks a congressman and former military officer , Mr Bonifacio Gillego . |
| 30 | It would have suited his purposes admirably well to have had the police arrest them for responding to his antagonism . |