Example sentences of "them for many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not often fish for them deliberately , for a coelacanth fights hard when it is hooked and a man might have to struggle with one of them for many hours before it could be hauled on board his canoe . |
| 2 | The ‘ wild ’ characteristics have been bred out of them for many generations and few would survive long if released into the wild . |
| 3 | But the speakers that you are observing ‘ know ’ how to use the resources of variation available to them , and they use them for many purposes , including the marking of varying social roles and functions . |
| 4 | I lived in one of them for many years and know how far ahead of their time they were . |
| 5 | Drugs are expensive in primary care , not normally because of the unit cost , but because many patients take them for many years . |
| 6 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
| 7 | If soft enough to show footprints and vehicle tracks , they retain them for many years . |
| 8 | That way you will be paying interest on them for many years . |
| 9 | The defendant firm lawfully terminated the employment of the plaintiff who had worked for them for many years . |
| 10 | Shoe-buckles , harness fragments and tunic buttons spread outwards from them for many yards when the gradients become steep , marking places where panting packmen and their contemporaries sought easier paths up the slopes . |