Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It spread to the Chinese around 2 , years ago and then reached Japan where they cultivated it into the art form it is today . |
| 2 | ‘ They spent a fortune developing the place , ’ the Maggot said , ‘ but the rich folks never came , so they sold it to the rich dickheads instead . ’ |
| 3 | They could n't come to a decision so they put it to the vote when — as the book put it — a pair of bearded anarchists , one with flame red hair , appeared out of nowhere and took their decision for them , smashing down the gates with sledgehammers . |
| 4 | ‘ Lots of women who have fine hair hanker after long , thick hair , so they grow it in the mistaken belief that the longer it gets , the more hair they have and the fuller it will look , ’ explained Charles . |
| 5 | Vince has has raised a point about er erm , informing er and consulting local people and to let local people know erm when the meetings are then local ca n't go , I 'm sure that if they really wanted people to come they 'd make it much more er , in erm with the advertising so clear that er people would be able to and also if they had it at the times when a their meeting at the times when it was mostly convenient to er , the general public . |
| 6 | If they left it in the hands of it would be a much better song . |
| 7 | Why do n't they have a big old disaster and see if they feature it on the news |
| 8 | Does that mean they would have if they have it at the ? |
| 9 | There was a ditch the other side of it , which should present no problems provided they met it on the right stride . |
| 10 | Being a war correspondent is a genuinely dangerous job , just like they portray it in the movies . |
| 11 | The South Koreans are rated because they made it to the last World Cup finals , but personally I will always think of the North Koreans in ‘ 66 . |
| 12 | So they park that up on the pavement outside our wall did n't come to our gate but , and then did n't it obstruct Alan 's because they had it on the pavement , so anybody going down the pavement |
| 13 | From the carrier 's standpoint , these as well as any other clauses or notations that indicated apparent irregularities made legal sense because they protected it from the allegation that the goods had been delivered in a sound condition and could have been damaged only because of improper loading , stowing , or care . |
| 14 | One minute he was talking about Leeds struggling against Wimbledon because they hoof it into the air , next minute that Wimbledon do/can play some nice football , the very next statement that they always just kicked it as hard as possible into the air . |
| 15 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |
| 16 | Dried their own grain afore they took it to the mill . |
| 17 | Of course , Marx and Engels focused most on this late stage , since they saw it as the cause of the rise of capitalism . |
| 18 | Parties must not give effect to a merger before they notify it to the Commission and for three weeks thereafter . |
| 19 | West Ham look a good outfit , they pass the ball around well in the midfield but are crap when they get it in the box . |
| 20 | When they got it to the surface , they had seen a writhing mass of jelly , from which two fierce eyes had peered at them . |
| 21 | Ultimately , the fragmentary nature of the Habsburg empire led to its fall , leaving the Spanish in control of Italy , a position they would maintain until the early part of the eighteenth-century when they lost it with the War of the Spanish Succession . |
| 22 | And then they 're gon na have an eleventh one when they , when they do it with the form tutor . |
| 23 | And then you find that when they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to realize . |
| 24 | To the British , Jamaica was the ‘ key to the Indies ’ when they captured it from the Spanish as an afterthought in 1655 . |
| 25 | Dinner was exquisite , even though they ate it in the somewhat strained silence of two people who had discovered they had absolutely nothing to say to each other . |
| 26 | ( Apart from these Yiddish songs , Judaism did not really have any modern music of its own , its practitioners — Mendelssohn , Meyerbeer , Rubinstein , Schonberg , for example — all incorporated the best as they saw it from the past . |
| 27 | Medley is ‘ everywhere infinitely a picture ’ ; Lockleigh , ‘ as they saw it from the gardens , a stout grey pile , of the softest , deepest , most weather-fretted hue , rising from a broad , still moat … a castle in legend ’ , is another ‘ noble picture ’ . |
| 28 | Or as they put it in the locker-room , once you 're in , you 're in . |
| 29 | The challenge which Gandhi posed to the British , as they perceived it at the time , was not to their consciences but to their authority . |
| 30 | The heart of the matter is the provision of a physical and social environment through which the members of society may gradually withdraw from it as securely and as worthily as they enter it through the environment of home and education . |