Example sentences of "[verb] them [noun] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miners may strike in support of nurses , but that does n't make them fighters for the equality of women or for women as women . |
| 2 | NEWSAGENTS have rejected a move which would see them campaign for the restoration of capital punishment . |
| 3 | Galwey and Popplewell , and to an extent O'Hara and the much-maligned Francis , produced outstanding performances which , if repeated against Wales and England , could secure them tickets for the trip to New Zealand . |
| 4 | The officials who sent them off from the ports with the loaded railway-wagons gave them rations for the number of days which the grain would in normal times take to its destination . |
| 5 | This gave them sympathy for the victims of the slave trade and slavery and , as the abolitionist John Bowring stressed , formed a strong bond of union between them . |
| 6 | These changes gave museums the right to retain what they earned , to privatise some of their services such as restaurants , publishing etc , and also gave them responsibility for the maintenance of their buildings . |
| 7 | A source of particular vulnerability for the agencies is that in its reorganization of the water industry the 1973 Water Act gives them responsibility for the management of the great majority of sewage treatment works , which in many areas are themselves significant — often principal — sources of pollution . |
| 8 | Their only hope was to find a farmhouse where a friendly farmer might be able to offer them shelter for the night . |