Example sentences of "it [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I frequently perform funerals three deep : that is , I do it for one person , who does it for another , who does it for the relatives of the deceased , he being the first person applied to . |
| 2 | This is to inform you all that me and my Companions have Unanamously agreed and likewise made Oath to Each other that if There is not a speedy Altaration made for the Good of the poore that you have corn thinking to make your fortunes of shall have it burnt to the Ground whether it Be in Stacks or Barns for the fire that took place Last Week was but the begining of your Troble , we know every Stack of Corn about this Country , and Every Barn that hath Corn concealed in it for the Purpos of starving the Poore But we are Determind if thare is to Be Starvation it shall be a General thing not a parcial one for both Gentle and Simple shall Starve if any Do . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's right , do n't leave it for the rats , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke called . |
| 4 | This was not the rich pap of the commercial world and there was little money in it for the artists . |
| 5 | And that 's that 's about it for the acids . |
| 6 | Hakim was used to transactions where ‘ all parameters are not known , you leave it for the times that things are known ’ , but this business proceeded on a plane that was ‘ intangible ’ . |
| 7 | What 's in it for the businesses ? |
| 8 | What 's in it for the businesses is this : at the moment they can see Eastern Europe as an emerging market , but it 's very difficult to get in there because the hard cash and the skills that they need do n't exist in those countries , but they want to do something , they want to demonstrate their interest , they want to make contact , and what Enterprise Europe gives them is the opportunity to make a good business contact amongst one the young generation of er of business leaders in those countries er in order , and keep those contacts in order that when they do have an opportunity to go into those markets they 've got some young people there to start off with . |
| 9 | No I think it was the rose fertiliser , they said use it for the tomatoes as well . |
| 10 | Jim 'll Fix It For The Boys |
| 11 | That 's compensation , is it for the tenants living in the flats ? |
| 12 | I used to make it for the girls when they were little |
| 13 | In the previous May Prince Rupert had captured the town for the Royalists from Colonel Dukinfield , who had held it for the Parliamentarians . |
| 14 | It was not just that they helped out at the occasional by-election , but that they ‘ pointed to new sources of support whose eventual accommodation , and to new issues whose eventual resolution , would ultimately modify the party itself and help equip it for the challenges of post-war politics ’ . |
| 15 | The thick shaggy coat of the mountain goat prepares it for the rigours of the Rocky Mountains ' winter . |
| 16 | Worth it for the anecdotes about thumbwrestling Norman Mailer alone . |
| 17 | Most of the 25,000 audience in the Palais Bercy could not see the platform because of the enormous scaffold bridge built across it for the cameras . |
| 18 | Save it for the birds |
| 19 | And do n't save it for the birds . |
| 20 | Rather like the English WILL O'THE WISP , this light bobs at eye level and invariably presages death or mishap to any traveller who follows it , mistaking it for the lights of a welcoming farmhouse . |
| 21 | Dad , dad used to use it for the bonfires but when he , when he did n't have any petrol he used to use it on the bonfire and he had it in a secret bottle and erm he got it too near and he did n't realize and all of a sudden it goes really really hot and he threw it and everywhere . |
| 22 | Used to get deliveries of it for the pigs that 's how they started up . |
| 23 | These can be obtained free from Marketing and Resources and are well worth it for the ideas and information contained in it . |
| 24 | Yeah but I want it for the men that 's going to alter the gas . |
| 25 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 26 | We either treat as a corporation a group of persons — usually the governing body of the institution , though it may include individuals who are beneficiaries and have no share in the government ( for instance , the scholars of a college ) — or else the property of the institution must be vested in a number of individual trustees , who are bound to apply and deal with it for the purposes of the institution . |
| 27 | For the soul does not easily yield to those who will steal it for the purposes of evil … |
| 28 | His aims are thus established from the outset both to record the evidence he has gathered and to evaluate it for the purposes of determining the truth . |
| 29 | It is not always possible to deliver a module just at the time a trainee needs it for the purposes of SVQ assessment . |
| 30 | I have therefore not attempted to consider that point , but have assumed it for the purposes of this judgment … |