Example sentences of "for them " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the number of people ill with AIDS increases so does the need for volunteers to care for them . |
| 2 | Things have changed for them too , says Anne Burley , Head of Europe Region at the IS . |
| 3 | But they can be good at conveying what it was like for them to be there , and to be writing it down . |
| 4 | For certain self-aware people , however , this is not possible : to imagine themselves being themselves , living their own real , authentic , or genuine life , has for them all the aspects of a hallucination . |
| 5 | It is possible that your local authority may ask you to audition for them after you have been offered a place . |
| 6 | I feel confident because I know I came out to help : directly , by leading them as well as an officer can ; indirectly , by watching their sufferings so that I may plead for them as well as I can . |
| 7 | All the actors interviewed seemed to feel , and state quite naturally and simply that there was really nothing else for them to do but act . |
| 8 | But the church 's clerics still took offence , particularly at the point that local people should be encouraged to take an interest in the schools by having some financial responsibility for them through local government . |
| 9 | The Irish hierarchy immediately campaigned against what was for them a drastic solution . |
| 10 | Blow their noses for them ? |
| 11 | ‘ Only somebody who knew his weakness for them , ’ said Peggy . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , they never called him back , and lucky for them , ’ Mrs Clancy said . |
| 13 | ‘ It will be a lovely surprise for them both when they come in , Rita 's chance at last . |
| 14 | Girls are always trying to make you feel sorry for them , but they ca n't fool me . |
| 15 | Average-sized rooms , average-sized cockroaches — watch out for them , by the way . ’ |
| 16 | I mean people who are living in the old common lodging houses and in government resettlement units , people living in squats and dingy bed-and-breakfast hotels , and families living cooped up with their relatives because there 's nowhere else for them to go . |
| 17 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 18 | That they have cost me no more than my time makes such decisions much easier than if I had paid for them in gold . |
| 19 | When I first met Chris and Pauline Lloyd to discuss their garden and take a look at its one-in-three slope , I was filled with a mixture of admiration for them , and horror at the task ahead . |
| 20 | In addition their mottled leaves significantly extend the season of interest , so be quite sure to allow enough space for them to reach their full potential glory . |
| 21 | Most gliding instructors are aware of these problems and watch out for them in their students . |
| 22 | They often think that if their flying is good enough , it is safe for them to press on in any weather conditions . |
| 23 | However , as pilots become more confident about their landings , it is very important for them to develop the skills needed to co-ordinate the stick and airbrake during the final hold off , so that an even more accurate touch down can be made . |
| 24 | It would be paradoxical for them to be in the vanguard of social change , for as Templeton ( 1980 ) points out , they are ‘ there to preserve the structure ; to uphold the state of play ’ . |
| 25 | In consequence , police ethnography remains largely unwritten simply because it is unlikely the organization will be keen to reveal the ways this ‘ immense disorder ’ is constructed , for it is not in their nature to allow other individuals to create their classifications for them . |
| 26 | Lucy drove , deft competent hands guiding them through the suburbs , Jay lit cigarettes for them both , a secret kiss at the tip of each one ; houses blurred past beyond Lucy 's profile . |
| 27 | She decided to do nothing else by way of wooing Lucy until there was real time , time for them to be alone . |
| 28 | Jay poured cocktails for them all . |
| 29 | She and Donald had started to take risks — they wanted each other so much that the reality of other people had dimmed for them , half the time they felt cloaked in invisibility . |
| 30 | Up the slope , at the top of his semi-circular steps , Alexander Menzies was waiting for them in his best silk coat like a dandy at a ball , with a straightfaced young man standing by his side . |