Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] they [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
| 2 | Situations in which they can prove useful are in small and/or lightly-stocked tanks , and rearing tanks where feeding is rather heavy and regular , as long as the turnover rate is not too high so as to stress the young fish or drag them into the filter . |
| 3 | er to consider , as to whether whether it would be appropriate to invite the winning schools for er to bring a party in or involve them in the erm Gala Day or e I mean i erm or the open day or something . |
| 4 | If you can keep your characters partially obscured , or fly them behind the enemy lines and out of his fire arcs then so much the better . |
| 5 | I found the wire loops , though , having seen the boys set them , and I tore them out or put them under the grass on the paths the boys used to take when they came to inspect their traps . |
| 6 | Managers were encouraged by corporate head office to eradicate such excesses at the work-outs , not to refer them to committees or put them through the proper channels . |
| 7 | Yes , erm , that 's right , or put them on the |
| 8 | ‘ He would either go with the victims or meet them at the Macro warehouse in North Acton . |
| 9 | Perhaps he kept such books at Castle Street , or read them in the Advocates ' Library . |
| 10 | Please include your application for tickets on your postal booking form , or obtain them from the Festival House box-office from 15 October . |
| 11 | You can stamp on toes , feet or shins ; knee him in the thigh or groin ; grab and squeeze testicles or pinch the soft inside of thighs along the trouser seam ; elbow him or her in the ribs or stomach if the person is behind you , or knee them in the belly if in front ; grab the little finger of one of the hands that is holding you round the waist or arms , and bend it backwards , forcing him or her to let go ; bite the side of the neck or slap a cheek or ear ; bash the nose with the front or back of your head ; force the head back by pressing your fingers up nostrils or squeezing the flats of your thumbs into eyes ; or even spit into eyes to make them blink . |
| 12 | Whether this device would , in a crisis , have served to drive people away or draw them to the spot seems not to have been put to the test . |
| 13 | You purchase players or get them from the free-transfer market . |
| 14 | Ask your Ski Club Representative or Party Leader for vouchers or get them from the Clubhouse . |
| 15 | Only passing accounts of his life and work have appeared in the literature , and while brief references have been made to Nicholson 's excellence as a chemist , these have not done justice to his achievements , or set them against the London localities where they occurred . |
| 16 | Alternately , the Commissioner and his most senior colleagues invite them to Scotland Yard , or visit them at the ALA building nearby . |
| 17 | Most people keep a gun or two in the house ; some carry them around with them , or stow them in the glove compartments of their cars . |
| 18 | But at home you might put an open packet on a bench in the greenhouse or spill some seeds , or leave them on the grass while you run to answer the phone . |
| 19 | In the summer months do n't shut your plants in a hot car or leave them in the sun while they are waiting to be loaded . |
| 20 | Or leave them in the trolley . |
| 21 | or mark them with the black , persistent crows |
| 22 | You can align and rotate objects , group or ungroup them or move them to the front or back . |
| 23 | 1.7 , a point of some significance in the context of this essay , and one to which I shall return later ) , or take them to the Temple for the ritual redemption of the first-born ( idem ) ; they were exempt from making the thrice-yearly pilgrimage to Jerusalem at the feasts of Passover , Pentecost and Tabernacles ( Hag . |
| 24 | I mean the main thing is people can borrow on the true price of the house and then they can have an 80 or 90 per cent mortgage and when they come to pay the mortgage they have the £500 subsidy for twelve months or take them into the next twelve months . |
| 25 | Yet in spite of the drive to encourage employers to recruit more people with physical or mental difficulties — or retain them in the wake of ill-health — too many are still backing off from taking on such staff , according to the Department of Employment . |
| 26 | WHEN Mrs Norma Major first came to our attention , she was reported to either make her own clothes or buy them off the peg from John Lewis . |
| 27 | And although he is adamant that the hardware business will not be run down , he did say that in future the firm will carefully weigh up whether it is more more cost-effective to manufacture products and components itself or buy them on the open market . |
| 28 | You can either grown them in a pot , or sprinkle them on the cotton wool in the shape of your name or a pattern . |
| 29 | The muscles are strengthened by an increased flow of blood , as are the ligaments that attach them to the bones . |
| 30 | They have , therefore , fewer cultural resources with which to resist the forces that place them in the underclass . |