Example sentences of "it [verb] for them " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter how hard the Provincial champions tried to eat into the massive margin the worse it became for them . |
| 2 | Except in those countries such as Ireland , Greece and Portugal , where the benefits of Federalism are largely measured in terms of the largesse it produces for them , greater comprehension of what is going on has brought growing anxiety about it . |
| 3 | By virtue of the Immigration ( Hotel Records ) Order 1972 all guests over the age of sixteen are required upon arrival at a hotel to register their full name and nationality , or have it registered for them . |
| 4 | It posed for them the question , ‘ Are we still the people of God ? ’ |
| 5 | To argue over the logic or truth of an idea in absolute terms is to explore the nature of belief itself , but for an historian of ideas what is most interesting is ‘ who held a particular belief at a particular time and what needs it fulfilled for them . |
| 6 | Perhaps illogically , if there is to be any ‘ indulging in personalities ’ , voters prefer to do it themselves on the doorstep rather than to have it done for them . |
| 7 | What , for that matter , did it do for them now ? |
| 8 | Did it work for them ? |
| 9 | Would each have the patience to continue the play , the will to make it work for them ? |
| 10 | The Japanese take more trouble to find out how the US system really works , and who can make it work for them . |
| 11 | This is maybe one reason why increasing attention is being turned to methods by which the general public can ( a ) ‘ read the landscape ’ ( Muir , 1981 ) , ( b ) have it interpreted for them ( Countryside Commission and CCS , 1975 ) ; or ( c ) even interpret their own everyday landscape ( Meinig , 1979 ) rather than having experts trying to value the invaluable . |
| 12 | To improve the assimilation of new staff into CA and reduce the time it takes for them to be working to full potential |
| 13 | To improve the assimilation of new overseas staff into CA and Britain , and reduce the time it takes for them to be working to full potential |
| 14 | They have vague ideas of the type of pictures they 're looking for , so they 're trying to get the Designer to make it happen for them — to confirm their thoughts . ’ |
| 15 | If , alongside this , boys are allowed to develop e.g. their caring faculties and to contemplate traditionally female careers such as nursing and social work , we might also see fewer boys taking A level mathematics and finding it unsatisfying for them , as Sheila Russell 's research ( 1983 ) indicated is all too frequently the case . |
| 16 | Can they tell you , when they use it , what it expresses for them ? |
| 17 | Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business . |
| 18 | Out of role the teacher asks the children about the traveller — what did she say , what does it mean for them ? |
| 19 | In the West , the time of retirement for many people is the end of their usefulness and it means for them no more than a hopeless waiting for them . |
| 20 | It ate their future complete it waited for them |
| 21 | McManus notes that ‘ aggression does not pay off for girls in the way some boys find it does for them ’ , with the result that many girls adapt to the social world of school in a different way . |
| 22 | They want to know that you know it , and they want to feel confident that if they ask you question you can answer it , but they very much want to know what it does for them and how much it 's going to cost them basically . |
| 23 | Tell them about the aims of the Medau Society , what it does for them , and for others |
| 24 | The Italians have mae it work for them because they have been able to inject a comfortable , relaxed mood . |