Example sentences of "and [verb] they for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh he 's terrible there , he even had them he had young girls working for him up there , and they found out they were paying he was paying them too little and then he got caught up with 'em , and erm what he done after he charged for taking them up there in the morning and charged 'em for taking them down in the evening with a Land Rover . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | How right we were : he drew plans with all the details we needed and submitted them for planning and building approval . |
| 4 | I am careful not to leave even the smallest scrap of yarn lying around as mother birds pick up the pieces and use them for lining their nests . |
| 5 | On previous tasks he has usually been on the cordon ringing the incident that the EOD team has been involved with , and cursing them for taking so long . |
| 6 | But what , then , are we to make of it when , in 1939 , writing an obituary of Ford , Pound lumped together two old associates of his , Fred Manning and Henry Newbolt , and excoriated them for continuing to use the ‘ poetical ’ diction from which Ford 's timely polemics had weaned Pound himself ? |
| 7 | People come up to them daily and thank them for helping with ‘ the best thing that 's happened to the valley in decades . ’ |
| 8 | This training was to elucidate the objectives of the study , to familiarise interviewers with the questionnaire , and to prepare them for conducting interviews on intimate and possibly sensitive questions . |