Example sentences of "and [verb] them [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have already drawn attention to the power there is in weakness and it is often the case that God is able to take ordinary weak things of this world and make them powerful for him . |
| 2 | 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) ) . |
| 3 | The suggestion is that this will reduce their chances of finding such work themselves and make them dependent for informal assistance on others whose circumstances are similar to their own . |
| 4 | Whether , for instance , concepts such as ‘ ethnicity ’ , ‘ class ’ , ‘ politics ’ are ‘ culture-free ’ , that is whether academics have succeeded in freeing them from their narrow everyday cultural uses and made them available for cross-cultural use , is a question of judgement and , ultimately , of ontology . |
| 5 | One county , Kopparberg , has handed over most of its budget to family doctors and made them responsible for buying services from competing providers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A Swedish study went some way towards achieving this aim by using soldier ‘ volunteers ’ and keeping them awake for about 72 hours in a constant environment . |
| 8 | As soon as she could , she resumed the normal pattern of her life , getting up at 7.30 a.m. to prepare breakfast for the older children and get them ready for school . |
| 9 | I said I would make them a hundred butterfly cakes , and they either they 'll eat them or they 'll sell them , and I 'll hav I 'll try and have them ready for when rings up at half past one and if they sell them and she brings me any I would n't mind knocking a few more up for tomorrow , but I 'm not gon na give them all |
| 10 | Theodora shuffled the documents and placed them ready for Tobias . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And keep them handy for when you do . |
| 14 | ‘ The beauty and interesting nature of this little bird ’ , Gould wrote , ‘ naturally made me anxious to bring home living examples ; I accordingly captured about twenty fully fledged birds , and kept them alive for some time ; but the difficulties necessarily attendant upon travelling in a new country rendering it impracticable to afford them the attention they required , I regret to say the whole were lost . ’ |
| 15 | The third section moves on to investigate the nature and effectiveness of British and American mechanisms for exercising democratic control over the police ( i.e. influencing their policies and making them answerable for their behaviour ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You will have to prepare them beforehand , of course , and have them ready for use before planting — plus the material to make the ties . |
| 18 | Two members were appointed to assist the Librarian to catalogue and number the books in the Library and have them ready for distributing at an early date . |
| 19 | 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 . |