Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there 's two ways of getting them off if they do latch on to you , one is to burn them off with a cigarette or a match and the other way is to use rock salt , and if you put rock salt on them they then just come off so that 's a little bit erm more humane for the leeches but it depends what you feel about them really as to whether you want to give them another chance . |
| 2 | He accuses the Americans of being xenophobic : ‘ It 's very difficult for the Americans because it 's most unusual for them to adopt a standard not written by the American National Standards Institute ( ANSI ) . |
| 3 | It 's as difficult for the stewards as it is for us , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Physically and erm emotionally writing can be very isolating and so , for example a few years ago , I was writing a huge piece on Africa about Africa and I found emotions growing that I actually did n't have names for , erm and it made it impossible to finish the piece I was working on , and then I , I went to see an Afro Asian exhibition of art and I saw portraying some of these paintings the same emotions and it , it did n't give me a name for the emotions but it , it made me feel an awful lot less isolated seeing that erm other people have also , have also felt this . |
| 5 | Life was fraught enough for the Stevenses as it was , with the constant care of Jennifer , without her adding to their problems , and besides , she had come to value her privacy and her independence . |
| 6 | But I I would n't er if I hear of a girl getting pregnant er you know now now it 's a very common thing I know , but sometimes I feel really sorry for the girls because it 's tying yourself fifteen , sixteen tying yourself down to children . |
| 7 | The second trial was going well for the Masons when it , too , was stopped after 11 weeks . |
| 8 | Jungle Boy and City Girl reach for the stars but it ca n't last , can it ? |
| 9 | again which they 've had have n't they ? , for how many weeks in the year do you actually attend cos I said that you do n't get grant for the holidays and it stipulates the term |
| 10 | There was an added incentive this year for the students as it was their last opportunity to catch the eye of Sue Rich , captain and selector of the British Team for the World Student Games which take place later this year . |
| 11 | With this in mind we have undertaken this year a review of the management team and staff resources with the objective of ensuring that LCCIEB is prepared for the challenges that it is likely to meet in the future . |
| 12 | It 's OK for the authorities because it 's not them you 're looking at — you wo n't be walking the beat with them . |
| 13 | It is recognised that these are important aspects of the learning and teaching approaches for the modules and it is recommended that they are used for formative assessment . |
| 14 | Well I 've got the window back in and working with the hand thing but I need drills to drill holes for the fittings and it really |
| 15 | How many come out and vote for the MPs when it comes to , when it comes to the er elections ? |
| 16 | ‘ It would seem the £100m needed to build the jail would be a ripe contender for the cuts and it wo n't go ahead for the next financial year at least . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It would seem the £100m needed to build the jail would be a ripe contender for the cuts and it wo n't go ahead for the next financial year at least . ’ |
| 18 | Nor can I forgive her for having blocked Moira 's appointment as BBC Governor for the Arts after it had been cleared by the Home Office . |
| 19 | The organisation would be unable to respond positively to as many requests for financial help for the arts as it would have liked . |
| 20 | Public opinion is growing too large for the channels that it has been accustomed to run through . ’ |
| 21 | Most fortunately for the Allies as it turned out , since within days Falkenhayn was to unleash all his troops from the area of fallen Antwerp , together with supplementary formations of volunteers , stiffened by regulars , in a massive stroke down the coastline , with the object of encircling the sanguine Joffre 's left flank . |
| 22 | It would be nice for the children when it was done , she thought . |
| 23 | Militarisation worked for the Nazis as it had for the Prussians in that it helped control large numbers of people , allowed a cheap and easy growth of populist emotion and nationalist identity and became the mainspring of industry by providing demand . |
| 24 | Also engineers are singled out here as the culprits when it could well have been social ( and technically incompetent ) scientists ! |
| 25 | Here they have been positioned between the strings and it is attention to minor details like these which make companies like Ibanez worthy of the laurels heaped upon them . |
| 26 | There should be a decent gap between the columns and it is often useful to place a vertical line in the middle of this gap , so physically preventing the eye straying from one to the other . |
| 27 | Lack of an alternative summer team sport protected cricket between the wars and it benefited from a brief post-1945 resurgence in numbers , but then numbers fell so dramatically that by 1965 they stood at about a third of the post-1945 years . |
| 28 | The reference may be invalid because there has been no agreement between the parties that it should take place . |
| 29 | I must advise the Minister that that is not what the construction industry is saying to others about the problems that it is facing . |
| 30 | ‘ And you did n't want her to know about the letters because it would rake it all up again ? ’ |