Example sentences of "for [pron] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I offered to coach them for nothing but they said they did n't want me , ’ he added . |
| 2 | As one famous sportsman put it , ‘ Agree to do something for nothing and they 'll tell you where the bus stop is ; ask to be paid and they 'll send the limo . ’ |
| 3 | We had to change the lock on their door , and the bloody lock cost thirty seven quid and each key cost five quid to cut , so we 're giving them fifty seven quids worth of security for nothing and they complain because I 'm not out by twelve o'clock . |
| 4 | It was cheaper than the cinema , only a few pennies , and young people could sometimes get in for nothing if they attached themselves to an adult . |
| 5 | This active process is hindered for everyone if they use stereotypes . |
| 6 | At that point , they decided it would be best for everyone if they went home . |
| 7 | There were cases of families being made to leave by conditions being rendered difficult for them after they had made complaints to the corporation housing department . |
| 8 | A GROUP of 35 children from Dothill county infants school , Telford , will be visiting the Laura Ashley garment factory in Carno on Thursday to be presented with cotton aprons produced specially for them after they designed their own patterns based on the theme ‘ Around Our School . ’ |
| 9 | They all speak excellent English and going on last year , are so pleased to be in Britain and so appreciative of everything arranged for them that they make an easy and rewarding group to entertain . |
| 10 | We read that the apostles in Jerusalem sent Peter and John down to them and ‘ when they arrived , they prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit , because the Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them ; they had simply been baptised into the name of the Lord Jesus . |
| 11 | If you embark on using someone as your detective who is immensely superior to yourself either intellectually or in the social scale ( and by that I do not mean any conventional listing of dukes , earls , barons and honourables ) you will be heading for trouble when you try to have the sort of insights for them that they would naturally have . |
| 12 | He 's he 's out yes and there are two or three in which have erm you know they 're sorry that they 've gone back and er we feel sorry sort of for them that they 've dropped into and a lot of our young lads have got mortgages and all that but there are some gone back er they need not people erm they 'd finished rearing their families and everything . |
| 13 | How could you kiss someone properly when you knew they had let you sit there for hours waiting for them while they went off and had dinner with someone else ? |
| 14 | I 've looked after the kids for them while they 've gone to vote , anything to get them here , that was the thing . |
| 15 | As Anthony Alexander , the group 's chief operating officer in Britain , put it , ‘ If we think we can get more for them than they are worth to us , we will sell . ’ |
| 16 | So one reason why many women are less easily aroused in the morning may well be because social factors are more important for them than they are for men . |
| 17 | ‘ Councils are supposed to provide sites for them but they do n't , ’ I protested , feeling a sudden sympathy for an oppressed minority . |
| 18 | steps up and right footed he blasts it into the bottom corner , it subdues the Shrewsbury crowd somewhat , Blackburn fans are rampant because at last there 's some light for them but they 're still trailing Shrewsbury by three goals to two . |
| 19 | In the end they fell upon Southwell , and the earth has literally moved for them since they purchased it in March . |
| 20 | Most employers spoken to made clear that , were permanent vacancies to arise , temporary workers would be in the best position to compete for them since they were known to the organisation . |
| 21 | They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank . |
| 22 | Except that the first time round the Indians saw that Firmin survived and they ran away because they were afraid , and the second time round they saw they 'd killed Antonio , which was quite the wrong result for them so they ran away because it had all gone wrong . |
| 23 | He 's a young fellow , and there 's no work for them so they 're going to get money somehow . |
| 24 | Who begged and argued and fought for them until they were free to go ? ’ |
| 25 | Very big , and also for the West Germans , because they 've got to absorb these sixteen million or so new er citizens and they 've got to pay for them until they pay for themselves , and meanwhile they 've got to carry various international costs , especially payments to Russia for the Russian troops who are going to stay on for three or four years , and pay for them to withdraw and pay to build barracks for them in , in Russia so that they can withdraw . |
| 26 | Well they ai n't going to anyway does a two or three years , they 're old age pensioners , the house is too big for them cos they 're waiting for a place to move , that 's why I want to get it , get this hedge grow before the next one comes in |
| 27 | We shouted for them till they came out on their balcony . |
| 28 | I was going out with this guy called John Colley whose relations were sort of minor gangsters in London and I went to work for them because they did n't mind my not being English . |
| 29 | ‘ As Jesus saw the crowds , his heart was filled with pity for them because they were worried and helpless , like sheep without a shepherd . ’ |
| 30 | It was worse for them because they had kept their child and had time to form a bond with it . ’ |