Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] they for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
| 2 | he advanced above three hundred debased field negroes who had never before moved without the whip to a state resembling that of contented , honest and industrious servants and after paying them for their labour , tripled the annual neat [ sic ] clearance of his Estate . |
| 3 | After watching them for a while I suggested that they might try to keep most numbers constant and change just one . |
| 4 | Joseph and his mother , after watching them for a moment , turned and strolled away to inspect the dead calf . |
| 5 | If you used floats on your model during the initial learning period and have since removed them , it would be well worth replacing them for your first circuits . |
| 6 | The Greeks were fond of using them for mounting on earrings , but it was the Romans who developed a passionate interest in pearls . |
| 7 | The trial judge directed the jury if at the time he collected the coins the defendant had formed the dishonest intention of keeping them for himself he was guilty of theft . |
| 8 | That this ‘ slippage ’ is so slight is due to the fact that the other Enterprise staff have worked a great deal of extra time and taken on extra responsibilities and I take this opportunity of thanking them for their hard work and support during this period . |
| 9 | He spent as long as he could going round the Smoking Room at a snail 's pace , cleaning clean ashtrays and polishing polished tables , and when summoned once or twice to wait on other members he dragged out the process of serving them for an inordinate length of time . |
| 10 | Similarly , ‘ vocational ’ training was regarded more as a means of making prisoners work hard than of training them for a task to which they were individually suited . |
| 11 | To round up clans of Ayoreo Indians with the dubious intent of rescuing them for Christianity , massacring those resistant to ‘ taming , imprisoning the remainder and allowing them to sink into ill-health and torpor , seems monstrous . |
| 12 | Instead of blaming them for a small error , I praise them for being 99 percent perfect . |
| 13 | It 's just a matter of hoarding them for a discount on your Sovereign holiday . |
| 14 | Though they can not detain us here , an examination of them could well be a step towards dispelling them for ever . |
| 15 | The interpretative work of field staff , particularly the procedures by which they graft meaning onto the behaviour of polluters for the purpose of categorizing them for future decisions about enforcement , is , then , a central theme . |
| 16 | This speech style urged on little girls is , however , a way of preparing them for their subordinate place in adult society . |
| 17 | A curving drive amongst trees leads up to the side of the lake and continues thence along the edge of the water in beautiful surroundings richly endowed with lovely trees planted by the Farrers in the days long ago when woodlands were intended for ornamental display and were allowed to develop to full maturity with no thought of slaughtering them for profit . |
| 18 | Existing contractual arrangements are inadequate as a means both of attracting sufficient high calibre practitioners to work in London and of rewarding them for providing an appropriate range of services . |
| 19 | Derek and I kind of study them for we for hours do n't we ? |
| 20 | Of course , I despised myself for despising them for showing such genuine and unselfish emotions , but that 's just one of the things you have to get used to when you 're in a serious self-destruction spiral . |
| 21 | ‘ Well over half of the clients that approach IMRS for consolidation software are currently using spreadsheets , and have discovered that there are all sorts of horrendous problems associated with using them for consolidation . |
| 22 | She 'd taxed him with trading them for snuff , which was his passion , and he 'd not denied it . |
| 23 | The seller has no difficulty in producing them for the buyer in any quantity provided he has sufficient notice to schedule production , and purchase needed materials and components . |
| 24 | The principal method is the study of hoards , since coins have frequently been deposited in hoards for safe-keeping and their owners have often been prevented from recovering them for a variety of reasons such as death or forgetfulness . |
| 25 | I have no hesitation in recommending them for steady moving water and out of the two I feel the series X is more versatile . |
| 26 | Nomura was also censured for breaking a rule which barred securities firms from holding more than 5 per cent of any company 's stock for their own investment purposes ( i.e. as distinct from holding them for clients ) . |
| 27 | The most effective way to guarantee rapid distribution is to let people try the program out before asking them for payment . |
| 28 | The most effective way to guarantee rapid distribution is to let people try the program out before asking them for payment . |
| 29 | Men frequently fear women 's sexual power and feel justified in blaming them for acts of male violence . |
| 30 | There may in fact be some differences in these time intervals and in other pathogenetic factors between Kock pouches and pelvic pouches , but in view of the general clinical similarities between the RP syndromes in these two forms of pouch ( Table V ) , we have felt justified in combining them for the purposes of our analysis . |