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Example sentences for "for them"

  • For them, after seventy-five years of trial, it has almost the weight of inspiration.

  • Under such circumstances, the sooner such countrymen should cease to be their fellows the better it would be for them.

  • They wanted to know something of that blockade on the Potomac; but such knowledge was not good for them.

  • For them too it is a monistic insight, in which the OTHER in its various forms appears absorbed into the One.

  • If it be his will, then injury is for them a blessing and no calamity at all.

  • The mere outward form of inalterable certainty is so precious to some minds that to renounce it explicitly is for them out of the question.

  • A day stripped so staringly bare would be for them appalling.

  • Such a time, of all times, for them to have it, when their hearts were made tender!

  • The whole power of mankind belongs to them, forever and beyond recall--do what it can, strive as it will, humanity lives for them and dies for them!

  • To my thinking it is their duty to be controlled, because that's their vocation, and there is nothing humiliating in it for them.

  • She would write and post letters for them to their relations.

  • Relations of the prisoners who visited the town, at their instructions, left with Sonia presents and money for them.

  • The unbelievers,-for them a terrible punishment!

  • God gone forth; as for them, a punishment not to be averted is coming on them.

  • But believers and doers of good works, for them is mercy, and a great reward!

  • Had God so pleased, He had made them one people and of one creed: but He bringeth whom He will within His mercy; and as for the doers of evil, no patron, no helper shall there be for them.

  • For them, the gardens of Eden, under whose shades shall rivers flow: decked shall they be therein with bracelets of gold, and green robes of silk and rich brocade shall they wear, reclining them therein on thrones.

  • Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.

  • And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.

  • Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.

  • He also threatened, that if any one of them escaped, their own lives should go for them.

  • But the young men professed they would give them any assurance they should desire; nor did they at all contradict what they requested, so great was the passion they had for them.

  • The rest of the eighty millions, like Mihalitch, far from expressing their will, haven't the faintest idea what there is for them to express their will about.

  • There had been a great deal of talk about them, and great preparations were being made for them.

  • All the most cruel words that a brutal man could say, he said to her in her imagination, and she could not forgive him for them, as though he had actually said them.

  • A total rupture from the Old World and all its habits was necessary for them.

  • The houses are not all built at once, but there are the places allocated for them.

  • Many men of mark in the colony were still anxious--I believe are still anxious--to put an end to the Ottawa scheme, and think that there still exists for them a chance of success.

  • And for the boys--for them it will be good to begin as he begun.

  • We must suffer in their cause; when they sacrifice us to the interests of their throne we may perish, for we die as much for ourselves as for them, but our name and our families perish not.

  • What are you going to do for them at court?

  • It is for them to protect themselves from death,--the whole purpose of alchemy lies there, sire.

  • But those are opinions which I never found supported by any experiments, or heard of others that had seen it; so I leave them as I find them; only with this remark, namely, that I think the probabilities are very strong for them.

  • I; 'and how much hast thou gotten for them?

  • All that we can do for them is to leave to them a memorable example of the manner in which great reforms ought to be made.

  • But they had been paid for dearly; for them a hundred or better from the Bavarian land were slain.

  • They thought, a short and speedy death were better for them, than to be longer racked with monstrous pain.

  • Nor could he end it for them; angry of mood (6) they grew.

  • All that they craved stood ready for them, for mickle wonders had been told about these knights.

  • And so you must use these charitable societies, remembering all along what a fearful and humbling sign the necessity for them is of the diseased state of this England, as the sportula and universal almsgiving was of the decadence of Rome.

  • She is so generous, she will sew her fingers sore for them, and I shall not have to make a task of it.

  • He had had all night since half-past ten to consider what next was most important for them to know; and a very difficult question it was, you will observe.

  • Four chairs had been turned down for them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    for good; for having; for his mercy endureth for ever; for not; for the same purpose; for the second time; for there; for they know not what they; for whom; for years; force the; force them; forced laugh; foreign court; foreign ministers; foreign prince; foreign princes; foreign service; forget what; forgive them; forgiving sins; former occasions; former page; former times; fortnight since; forty miles