Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] them for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Duc d'Orléans refused Stair 's demand to hand over the ships and their contents to Byng but did agree to unload the weapons and remove them for safe keeping to a French arsenal , a notable diplomatic triumph . |
| 2 | Section 143 requires local authorities to compile registers of land that might be contaminated and open them for public inspection . |
| 3 | They pulled the chunky torches from their holsters , and primed them for high output . |
| 4 | General practitioners are available to identify problems and refer them for further investigation , and to cooperate with the hospitals for long-term treatment . |
| 5 | Mr Quarmby describes himself as going ‘ cap in hand to the recording companies and asking them for advance rental income ’ . |
| 6 | Like , her politics were really cool … ’ she says , and explains how her mother would set up estate agents and expose them for discriminatory letting policies . |
| 7 | Randomizing algorithms are sometimes provided , but it is generally wise for the user to allocate and test them for each file on an individual basis . |
| 8 | The umbrella ants chew up leaves and use them for growing food . |
| 9 | They present short narratives of women 's lives , and claim them for feminist therapy on the grounds that they emerge from women 's personal experience . |
| 10 | erm I would suggest that anybody who 's really erm concerned in the way you were can either approach their local Education Authority and ask them for some kind of information on this . |
| 11 | These schools take children between the ages of about 8 and 13 and prepare them for competitive entry to the public schools . |
| 12 | The butcher chases them off the rock with kicks and abusive shouts , as though punishing them for bad behaviour . |