Example sentences of "[verb] them [adj] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You did n't run — that only made them eager for the chase . |
| 2 | ‘ We have here not a few whose high office would make them suitable for the position , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Britain 's main clearing banks are reviewing their lending policies in the light of a draft EC directive which would make them liable for the clean-up costs of their industrial clients , should the latter go into liquidation . |
| 4 | This is the idea that crime and deviance have positive qualities and consequences that make them necessary for the healthy functioning of society . |
| 5 | As far as the debtor 's obligations are concerned , he must retain possession of the goods and make them available for the creditor to collect , taking reasonable care of them in the meantime ( s72(4) ) . |
| 6 | I usually keep him in when I wash his clothes and I got them special for the cold weather so he should be all right . |
| 7 | Probing with his narrow hands he located the organs he sought , and , using another slender knife , dislodged and withdrew them , handing them to his assistant , who placed them in bronze trays and took them to another table where he covered them with natron salt , to dry and preserve them ready for the four jars which would stand in a chest at the head of the coffin . |
| 8 | THE problems of keeping walls in mortuary and undertakers ' premises clean and hygienic , while still keeping them attractive for the staff , is one which has been around for many years . |
| 9 | The CD and cassette versions of the single contained five tracks and Gallup deemed them ineligible for the singles charts . |
| 10 | RICHARD GOUGH and Trevor Steven will be examined by Rangers ' medical staff today but the injuries sustained at Fir Park last night have made them doubtful for the European tie with FC Brugge . |
| 11 | But even when it does occur it does not provide too much of a problem , for the sea slugs are capable of quickly regenerating them ready for the next naïve fish to attack . |
| 12 | ‘ These new lambs would die if I could n't keep them warm for a while . |
| 13 | ‘ This 'll keep them happy for a while . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Can you keep them busy for an hour or so ? |
| 15 | I get another star , thing is he does n't actually , I can remember them cos he can read them , I do n't know whether she 's got them wrong for the test it 's a bit of a really is n't it eh ? come on |
| 16 | South Korean President Roh Tae Woo dismissed two members of his Cabinet and the governor of North Chungchong province on Sept. 19 , after holding them responsible for the massive damage which resulted from severe flooding earlier in the month in Seoul and the central region of the country . |
| 17 | The typical pattern was for the local parties to meet only once a year in 1915 and 1916 , to re-elect their officers for another year ; agents who had enlisted were kept on the books by retaining half their normal pay , to compensate them for loss of earnings in the national interest and to keep them available for a resumption of partisanship . |
| 18 | The emeralds must go , they would bring in enough money to pay some of the debtors sufficient to keep them quiet for a time . |
| 19 | The other thing I mean to be healthy it 's more important to dry things and keep them dry for a while than to boil them . |
| 20 | Nobody would now hold them responsible for the Revolution in France , but the Encyclopedie , which Diderot inaugurated ( and edited with D'Alembert ) and to which he contributed hundreds of articles himself , undermined the authority of the regime , and argued for a re-ordering of society on rational grounds . |
| 21 | It has been loosely referred to as any mode of policing other than the rapid-response crime control type ; an alternative which specifically seeks to make constables part of the community by making them responsible for a geographical area , known as ‘ permanent ’ or ‘ home ’ beats ; a means of developing communication between the police and the local community ; and a process by which responsibility for crime control and prevention is shared with the community , both also known as ‘ community relations ’ ( Weatheritt 1983 : 4–5 ) . |
| 22 | The realisation that this is a racist society , a society which wishes them dead for the colour of their skin , accentuates their loneliness , and their isolation in turn makes it harder for them to fight against racism . |
| 23 | Made the barrels in the Wintertime , to have them ready for the Summer . |
| 24 | It is little known that poll tax collectors not only have the authority to arrest those they suspect of defaulting on poll tax and strip them naked for the purposes of search ( without any obligation to mend or replace clothing which is destroyed in the process ) , but they can also apply torture in cases where they have reason to believe poll tax is being withheld — at any rate until such time as the defaulters reveal where their money is hidden . |
| 25 | These are simplified forms of the results of the self-consistent models of Hill and later workers together with engineering approximations to make them suitable for the designing of composites . |
| 26 | The London County Council had found that it simply was not worth trying to recover the cost of milk from the 25% of London parents whose income was high enough to make them liable for the full billeting contribution , since ‘ the few pounds they had succeeded in recovering over a period of several months were far less than the cost of its collection ’ . |
| 27 | Otherwise they 're going to have another sleepless night , and we need them fresh for the next stage . ’ |
| 28 | In his Autumn Statement in November 1989 the Chancellor of the Exchequer accused local authorities of ‘ massive overspending ’ , and held them responsible for the fact that public expenditure for 1989/90 was expected to be £1 billion higher than originally planned . |
| 29 | Unfortunately the position makes them ideal for the kid to cut over and leap frog over , especially straight into the oncoming traffic and the er bearers . |