Example sentences of "for [verb] them [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Severe overcrowding in the urban areas was usually cited as the reason for keeping them in the countryside , but there were probably underlying political motives . |
| 2 | Each local authority was required to estimate the needs of primary , secondary and further education in its area , and to submit plans for meeting them to the ministry . |
| 3 | Yet both museums blame the politicians for pushing them to the edge . |
| 4 | And erm my used to tell me about er when they were serving their time , all the apprentices used to clump their work on a Monday afternoon to go to the panopticon And at that particular time , they had turns on and if they did n't like them they pelted them with tomatoes and oranges and they had a big hook for for pulling them off the stage . |
| 5 | There were thus good reasons for holding dollars but not for holding them in the USA . |
| 6 | Mr Thomson also felt undermined because ‘ untoward occurrences ’ , including allegations of staff threatening residents , were not being relayed to him for up to three weeks , even though he was legally responsible for reporting them to the county council . |
| 7 | For instance , Tomsk , founded in 1604 on the orders of Tsar Boris Godunov , around 60 kilometres from the confluence of the Ob and Tom rivers , ‘ served as a defensive post for protection against attacks by the local population and for subjecting them to the payment of yasak ’ . |
| 8 | One Harvard dealer on his way to London & Norwich Investment Services Ltd left a carrier bag of leads at a nearby sweetshop , giving £10 to the silvery haired owner for hiding them behind the counter . |
| 9 | Words are essential tools for formulating and communicating thoughts , and also for putting them into the storage of memory , but words can also become snares , decoys or straight jackets . |
| 10 | The rules began by clarifying the ‘ special advisory committees ’ for juveniles and spelt out in some detail the procedures for registering them at the exchanges . |
| 11 | Man needs to have some understanding of how this , and other atrocities , are possible as one of the major ways for avoiding them in the future . |
| 12 | Freedom of choice is no longer on the agenda , especially now that American Jews have discovered that it is easier to raise money for absorbing Soviet Jews in Israel than it is for resettling them in the US . |
| 13 | SEX-STARVED women in Japan blame their husbands ' bosses for working them into the ground and leaving them limp and lifeless in the bedroom . |