Sentence examples for To procure for from inspiring English sources

He is lacking, however, the possibility of incarnation: he is left to rob others in order to procure for himself the appearance of personality and corporeality.

There were people to see, 20 or so tickets to procure for the game and a few moments to let it all sink in.

"My house in Scotland," he wrote to his Athenian agent, "... offers me the means of placing, in a useful, distinguished, and agreeable way, the various things that you may perhaps be able to procure for me".

In other cases, she said, some families would sell all their possessions, including their land, to bribe a Bangladeshi staff member in the United States Embassy to procure for their sons visitors' visas, which are hard to get.

To do so, he knew, he had to make the fantastical seem credible—"to procure for these shadows of imagination," he wrote, in a soon to be famous phrase, a "willing suspension of disbelief".

By some estimates, almost half of the circulating paper in America at one point had been counterfeit... Boggs' solicitor, Mark Stephens, had managed to procure for him the services of the barrister Geoffrey Robertson, a famous advocate of civil liberties... Robertson believed the trial was merely a futile prelude to his heart's desire: an appeal of the Boggs case before the Strasbourg court.

By that age, Dupuis was accompanying his father on seal hunts in a boat to procure food for older relatives for winter.

Knowing what a bother it can be for the players to procure tickets for relatives, he told his son, who is married with a second child due in March, not to worry about him.

While on a nocturnal grave-digging excursion to procure bodies for a crazy scientist, for instance, the pair encounter an assassin, who tells the twelve-year-old hero that he was "made for killing".

Plans are also underway to roll out the services in other districts and for the Government to procure machines for the production of birth certificates.

A teenage mission to procure beer for a New Year's Eve party, for example, occupies about 70 pages in book one.