Example sentences of "or [verb] they [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The importance of locational specifications in general can be gauged from the fact that there seem to be two basic ways of referring to objects — by describing or naming them on the one hand , and by locating them on the other ( Lyons , 1977a : 648 ) . |
2 | By writ dated 6 August 1991 the plaintiffs in the first action , Barclays Bank Plc. claimed £389,431 from the defendants , Glasgow City Council , being moneys had and received to the plaintiffs ' use as having been paid under void contracts ; or contracts for which the consideration had totally failed ; which were traceable by the plaintiffs into the hands of the defendants , the retention of which would be unconscionable ; which would cause the defendants to be unjustly enriched ; or which the defendants held upon an implied or resulting or constructive trust in favour of the plaintiffs ; or to which the plaintiffs were entitled on the grounds that the defendants had spent the money on their lawful activities or applied them towards the discharge of their liabilities . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | The petitioning period expires , in the case of a November order on 22nd January and in the case of a March order on 23rd May , and the agent would normally then report to the client on petitions received , examine the petitions and advise on the action taken to settle them or to meet them in the inquiry . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Yes , erm , that 's right , or put them on the |
11 | Less practical is physical destruction like squashing or bashing them on the head . |
12 | From time to time Shelly Films held evening previews of certain feature films , either for clients , or to screen them for the local parent company . |
13 | This duty does not extend to protecting the economic welfare of the employee by taking out insurance or warning them of the need for insurance cover . |
14 | Congress is not empowered to make laws for the states or to substitute them for the laws of individual states and so on . |
15 | And then they started recruiting or or or promoting them from the ranks you know . |
16 | ‘ He would either go with the victims or meet them at the Macro warehouse in North Acton . |
17 | Perhaps he kept such books at Castle Street , or read them in the Advocates ' Library . |
18 | Prior to laying the information Mrs Bujok had not served an abatement notice upon the council or informed them of the alleged defects in the premises . |
19 | Please include your application for tickets on your postal booking form , or obtain them from the Festival House box-office from 15 October . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | In the early stages it was finding them a deal , or moving them to the next level up . ’ |
23 | You purchase players or get them from the free-transfer market . |
24 | Ask your Ski Club Representative or Party Leader for vouchers or get them from the Clubhouse . |
25 | I 'm never quite sure really to be honest whether these individuals had an interview with Jesus or Jesus had an interview with them , because whether they thought that Jesus or whether they thought they were doing the , the probing and the questioning really it was Jesus who was in charge of the interview , you may of watched er certain chat shows on the , on the television or heard them on the radio and er depending who the person being interviewed is , very often it actually changes , and its the interviewer who really is being put through it , its the , its the person who 's being interviewed is in charge of the situation and that was the case here Jesus . |
26 | You may have watched er , certain chat shows on the , on the television , or heard them on the radio , and er depending who the person being interviewed is , very often it actually changes , and it 's the interviewer who is really being put through it it 's the , it 's the person being interviewed who is in charge of the situation and that was the case here with Jesus . |
27 | If the last counter-offer came from the buyer , then the seller will signify acceptance ( depending on the type of goods and the nature of the transaction concerned ) when he ei ther appropriates goods to the contract , puts their manufacture in hand , or delivers them to the buyer . |
28 | Or he could wash cars , polish shoes or more lucratively , engage in the growing underground economy selling rare commodities at home or smuggling them across the border to nearby Zaire . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | Alternately , the Commissioner and his most senior colleagues invite them to Scotland Yard , or visit them at the ALA building nearby . |