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Example sentences for "obtain them"

  • That whenever they shall find it difficult to obtain such notes for the purpose of making their remittances (which is not likely to be the case in any short period,) they will naturally advertise to obtain them.

  • I have written to obtain them, and a commissioner is employed in adjusting them.

  • The profits of manufacturing stock, therefore, are not, like the rent of land, a neat produce which remains after completely repaying the whole expense which must be laid out in order to obtain them.

  • The travellers had great difficulty, in getting porters, who would never agree until the king's soldiers had seized their women and cattle, and they frequently had to zig-zag from village to village to obtain them.

  • Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

  • Have I not seen my fellow- citizens envy them--the nobles of my country sacrifice every thing to obtain them?

  • He bore all their insults with calmness, and to their reiterated demands, merely replied; "This is neither the time nor the way to obtain them from me.

  • The object of this measure was to enable merchants trading to foreign countries, and shipowners, to lay in their supplies in the ports of the United Kingdom, instead of being compelled to obtain them, as at present, from the Baltic.

  • Steele burned with indignation at the disabilities of his Roman Catholic fellow-countrymen, and joined in every exertion to obtain them justice.

  • He says, that the Spaniards, knowing he was master of these papers, had made him considerable offers in order to obtain them.

  • I have already, Sir, made you acquainted with the means we are making use of to obtain them.

  • To satisfy the vigilance of their economy we obtain them.

  • The desire for their acquisition was natural, and efforts to obtain them incessant, until the acquisition was made.

  • While they were gone to obtain them, he caused the multitude to sit down upon the earth.

  • Being without wives, and fearing to return home, they had adopted this plan to obtain them.

  • I have seen people, incapable of receiving visions with ordinary glass, obtain them in a tiny ball of natural crystal.

  • Psychical phenomena can be obtained in broad daylight, and an endeavour should be made to obtain them in this way.

  • Therefore we must not try to obtain them, until we are already familiarised with the observation of physical phenomena.

  • Replied the Princess, "I doubt not but thou knowest for a certainty the very spot where these wondrous things are to be found; and I pray thee tell me now the place and means whereby I may take action to obtain them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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