Example sentences of "[prep] it that they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its classical central waiting-room had a touch of the first Euston about it , eighty years removed , and South Australian railways were so proud of it that they promptly published a booklet providing statistics of its dimensions , quantities of building materials used , and so on . |
| 2 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 3 | I would like certainly to see schemes starting where people can be put into worthwhile jobs , where people can start jobs knowing at the end of it that they are not going to be thrown onto the dole queue again . |
| 4 | I have on occasion told students that they 're doing an arts subject , and tried to encourage them to think in those terms , because if they 're constantly thinking of the job at the end of it , then I do n't think they 're getting the most out of it that they can do … . |
| 5 | It would be interesting to hear just how much of the programme that I have outlined the Government support , those aspects of it that they do not , and why . |
| 6 | Locals call it ‘ The Wall ’ because so many people like it that they never venture outside it till it 's time to go home . |
| 7 | They are so keen to get on with it that they can be guaranteed to see the rabbit before any human and are fast off the mark . |
| 8 | It is true , certainly , that a number of workers who have investigated it with a view to debunking it were so impressed by the results which could be obtained with it that they became its champions instead of its detractors . |
| 9 | Immigration officers are so pleased with it that they are putting up more , along the Arizona-Mexico border . |
| 10 | Eye surgeons had learned to cut the ligament with complete success , but it was so different a procedure from the rest of the operation and so incompatible with it that they often dreaded it . |
| 11 | Almost everyone on yearly wages in the opera houses owes his or her job to party pull and , once hired , the unions see to it that they are not sacked . |
| 12 | Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner . |
| 13 | Coaching also means insisting at housegroup level that if someone makes a commitment to the group and does n't live up to it that they say Sorry to the group about it . |
| 14 | They grew big and strong and healthy , for he saw to it that they had all of the best , particularly in winter , and nothing to fear — except the running knot in the hedge-gap and the wood-path . |
| 15 | See to it that they do . |
| 16 | Cumulative selection will see to it that animals are well fitted to outrun their predators or outwit their prey , no less than it sees to it that they are well fitted to the prevailing weather conditions . |
| 17 | She could see to it that they got ugly . |
| 18 | But tomorrow , first thing , I 'll see to it that they are in full possession of the facts . ’ |
| 19 | Sometimes the skilled were actually a species of sub-contractor , paid by output , who hired their unskilled assistants at a flat time-wage and saw to it that they kept up the pace . |
| 20 | Years ago I had a class of very bright children and they did some really good projects , they were n't silly projects where they just scribble a bit an and draw some rubbish the they really worked and I saw to it that they produced really good work |
| 21 | I will have to take your word for it that they are a pair — but I wonder how you are so sure , as it is n't all that easy to sex these fish . |
| 22 | Listen , I know their sort , and take my word for it that they 're professionals . |
| 23 | or they 're so serious about it that they 'll probably be watching everything , you know , just to sort of make sure that they know everything about |
| 24 | And in the morning , when they went outside their hut to speed the traveller on his way , they found that the poor little cabin had turned into a handsome mansion , with everything around it that they could possibly need . |