Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] them for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | She 'd taxed him with trading them for snuff , which was his passion , and he 'd not denied it . |
| 5 | The most effective way to guarantee rapid distribution is to let people try the program out before asking them for payment . |
| 6 | The most effective way to guarantee rapid distribution is to let people try the program out before asking them for payment . |
| 7 | Whether this is because their earlier success is an indicator that they have the appropriate capabilities , or because their earlier study has been important in preparing them for entry , or some combination of these , is difficult to say definitively without further research . |
| 8 | However , if the bailor was not the owner but had , for example , stolen them before leaving them for repair or treatment , etc. then the true owner will still have good title ( i.e. unless one of the other exceptions to the nemo dat principle applies ) . |
| 9 | If your supplier conditions newly arrived fish before offering them for sale you will usually avoid problems once the fish are transferred to your aquarium . |
| 10 | As musicians , jazz poets and exponents of hardhitting lyrics there are n't many outfits that come even close to matching them for dynamism or style . |
| 11 | Because photographs and line artwork processed through a scanner are captured as bitmaps all the earlier comments about painting programs apply equally when it comes to re-sizing them for inclusion within a page . |
| 12 | Both were constructed at the Chrzanow Locomotive Works in Poland , one in 1954 and work on restoring these , plus regauging them for use on the centre 's narrow gauge line will start in the near future . |
| 13 | They keep upsetting customers by pushing them for money . |
| 14 | So , against Clark , it must be argued that it is misleading to claim that because animals , imbeciles , and normal infants are all weak , defenceless , and at our mercy , to treat any of them in the same way ( say by killing them for food or using them in research ) is ‘ in moral terms , the very same act ’ ( Clark 1978 : 149 ) . |