Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] them for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event , no effort was needed : the early years of the Great War caused great damage to the Edinburgh printing trade , with several firms going out of business , others laying off workers or releasing them for other jobs since trade was so poor . |
| 2 | Bank issuers have responded to the non-bank challenge with a blaze of publicity about how they are cutting their own fees , which are typically $20–40 a year , or waiving them for new card-holders in the first year . |
| 3 | The reason why they maintained these holdings in dollars , rather than selling them for some other currency , was that dollar investments in New York remained attractive despite the decline in the relative value of the dollar in the early seventies . |
| 4 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 5 | Do n't you come across many teachers who say something along the lines ‘ I 'd love to try this experiment ’ , or ‘ I 'd like to try this in a different way , but I have C S E or O level or A level coming up for my children in a term or a year and I ca n't possibly afford to do other than cram them for these examinations ’ . |
| 6 | Yeah , well you then just go and change them for that one drawing ! |
| 7 | The leaflet accused the Moslem of kidnapping children and using them for ritual purposes . |
| 8 | It achieved temperatures over a million degrees and sustained them for several milliseconds . |
| 9 | He did not like this and changed them for two of the same length . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Section 143 requires local authorities to compile registers of land that might be contaminated and open them for public inspection . |
| 12 | " To a pint of cream put a pound of double-refined sugar , the juice of seven lemons , grate the rinds of two lemons into a pint of white wine , add half a pint of sack , then put them all into a deep pot , and whisk them for half an hour , put it into glasses the night before you want it : it is better for standing two or three days , but it will keep a week if required . " |
| 13 | These are independent companies who are responsible for providing customers with their mobile communications equipment and a range of services , and billing them for these products and services . |
| 14 | Rather than modify anything to do with the external events that trigger your guilt you might decide to go for option 2 and identify the thoughts or beliefs that herald your guilt feelings and examine them for possible replacements . |
| 15 | Rather than modify anything to do with the external events that trigger your inadequacy , you might decide to go for option 2 and identify the thoughts or beliefs that herald your feelings of inadequacy and examine them for possible replacements . |
| 16 | Rather than modify anything to do with the external events that trigger your inhibition you might decide to go for option 2 and identify the thoughts or beliefs that herald your inhibition and examine them for possible replacements . |
| 17 | Rather than modify anything to do with the external events that trigger your jealousy you might decide to go for option 2 and identify the thoughts or beliefs that herald your jealousy and examine them for possible replacements . |
| 18 | Rather than modify anything to do with the external events that trigger your worry you might decide to go for option 2 and identify the thoughts or beliefs that herald your worry and examine them for possible replacements . |
| 19 | The application captures all sensor readings in real time and stores them for 30 years as required by law . |
| 20 | The application captures all sensor readings in real time and stores them for 30 years as required by law . |
| 21 | They pulled the chunky torches from their holsters , and primed them for high output . |
| 22 | Particular indignation was caused when Laud summoned noblemen and gentlemen before the Court of High Commission , an ecclesiastical body , and fined them for moral offences ; there was also wide resentment of his use of the Star Chamber to punish by cropping their ears those who libelled court or bishops . |
| 23 | General practitioners are available to identify problems and refer them for further investigation , and to cooperate with the hospitals for long-term treatment . |
| 24 | Also described as traditional ( or incremental ) budgeting , the pragmatic approach starts with the previous year 's allocation of resources and updates them for any anticipated changes in , for example , planned activities , prices , or the total money available . |
| 25 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
| 26 | Mr Quarmby describes himself as going ‘ cap in hand to the recording companies and asking them for advance rental income ’ . |
| 27 | DEFINITION : Research is ringing someone up and asking them for other people 's names . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The umbrella ants chew up leaves and use them for growing food . |