Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] them for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before 1688 kings had been able to choose their ministers and to wield sufficient power to keep them in office unless the Commons used the exceptional procedure of impeachment to try to prosecute them for political misdemeanours . |
| 2 | Sheep would not safely graze nor would spring lambs nor calves ; the average farmer could hardly be expected to stock them for old times ' sake . |
| 3 | That gives us the potential of raising two thousand pounds , because we intend to sell them for one ninety nine . |
| 4 | Waterlife Research Industries have kindly replaced the test kit , even though they were not at fault and I would like to thank them for this . |
| 5 | The latest grab , the BBG 46 , will now pick up the bales in either direction , allowing the operator to cross stack them for safer transport and storage . |
| 6 | For those nurses relocating from the acute sector to community services , training will be needed to prepare them for new ways of working . |
| 7 | Mr Charlwood was a widower with two teenage daughters and did not want to leave them for longer than necessary . |
| 8 | And I did return to nurse them for two years |
| 9 | And why not have placed them for safe keeping in a pocket , satchel or valise ? |
| 10 | I 'd have got them for five or six quid a window |
| 11 | The President had also apparently abandoned his aim of holding the first round of legislative elections on Oct. 25 [ see p. 39086 ] , and agreed to reschedule them for late November ( with a number of opposition parties still calling for a further postponement ) . |
| 12 | I 've lots of ideas for these , but as they are all quick to make I 've left them for next month when you have finished your special presents and they are neatly folded and packed away in all their glory of tissue paper and gold and silver ribbons . |
| 13 | There was a rush by speculators to buy the true classics , subject them to extremely expensive rebuilds , and then to attempt to sell them for sky-high prices . |
| 14 | What could be anticipated with confidence was the beneficial results of redistribution , for Unionists had expected them for some time . |
| 15 | In addition to securing Commonwealth support for their position , the British sought to consolidate their own aviation policy into some definable form , something which had eluded them for several years . |
| 16 | They had known all along they had a good , competitive car ; a single mistake had mired them for three races ; it was now solved and they could build for the future . |
| 17 | Tony 's mother had made them for this occasion , and though recipes vary slightly the end result is a large currant biscuit . |
| 18 | they had to sell them for three and threepence , three farthings . |
| 19 | They 've had them for two months . |
| 20 | ‘ This is a young side and I 've known them for four years and watched them mature and get stronger . |
| 21 | As a church architect , I have visited , I believe , all the cathedrals in Europe — Chartres , Burgos , Canterbury , Cologne , Saragossa , Milano , Ely , Zagreb , Gozo , Rheims — ’ I continued to name them for some while as we tramped down the nave . |
| 22 | Then in late July I had my clubs stolen again I had left them for ten minutes at about 9.30pm and when I came back they were gone and it was at the time when I was about to play in two large junior competitions . |
| 23 | And er then we after the war was finished , we continued making them for several years , but we had to transfer it to another factory . |
| 24 | The results showed that capercaillie had vanished from 12 of the 56 forests which had held them for 20 years , and numbers had declined in nearly all the other forests . |
| 25 | We 've paid them for fifty percent of the F O B costs , er because they said , Unless you pay us , we wo n't load . |
| 26 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 27 | Some people I know have used them for departmental budgets , but quite how they do that I do n't know . |
| 28 | In spite of all the powers with which he was armed , and routinely used for routine ends , it is clear that the Northern Nigerian Resident too often failed to use them for good : being , rather than doing , good came to define the limits of his aspirations . |
| 29 | Some said that their wives did not have ideal looks , but that they had chosen to marry them for other qualities . |
| 30 | I have kept them for two years and found them naturally inquisitive and great characters . |