Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They have admitted some of the questions on this paper are too difficult for the children and in Anthony 's school , where they took it as a class test , I believe the highest marks were about 40 or 42pc . ’ |
| 2 | It spread to the Chinese around 2 , years ago and then reached Japan where they cultivated it into the art form it is today . |
| 3 | most of the changes that have been made to those houses have been er erm at the request of Newton Sherwood District Council , they the the they lifted the room pitch , we had a lower one , they wanted a higher one , erm , and you know , erm , all all basically erm the the although they counted it as a change since application |
| 4 | MacDonald concludes with the view that non-traditional students are an advantage to higher education although they present it with a challenge . |
| 5 | The managers I interviewed appeared to lack commitment to improving motivation , although they identified it as a problem . |
| 6 | Although they see it as a step in the right direction , people working in the area fear that it may take another generation before Karamoja cools down . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | she goes to part-time so they get it at a reduced rate . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | In sufficient numbers innovation-weary teachers can make any change a change for the worse if they implement it in a resentful , half-hearted or half-baked fashion , and under these conditions even the brightest and the best schemes are going to flop . |
| 13 | cunt , wonder what that would be if they put it in a dictionary . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Parents , on the other hand , however much they have suffered at school , or even if they left it with a sense of failure , usually attribute the shortcomings to themselves rather than to the system , and thus find it difficult to envisage school in any form other than the one that they themselves experienced . |
| 16 | If they left it in the hands of it would be a much better song . |
| 17 | Why do n't they have a big old disaster and see if they feature it on the news |
| 18 | ‘ If they locate it outside a house , then they establish when it is there , and prepare an attack for that period . ’ |
| 19 | Does that mean they would have if they have it at the ? |
| 20 | There was a ditch the other side of it , which should present no problems provided they met it on the right stride . |
| 21 | Being a war correspondent is a genuinely dangerous job , just like they portray it in the movies . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | The world and its leaders reacted very differently to the news of Ceauşescu 's fall : Westerners , even those who had flattered him , rejoiced , but the rulers of Third World or Communist states mourned him — not only for his own violent end , but also because they saw it as a premonition of their own impending fates . |
| 25 | Coloureds and Indians have tended to support the National Party — one estimate is that 60% of them gave it their backing in mid-1992 — because they saw it as a bulwark against black domination . |
| 26 | Such people have been disappointed , to say the least , that the Government postponed the community care programme by two years because they saw it as an opportunity for the balance of resources between residential care and community care to be readdressed . |
| 27 | That 's because they see it as a threat to their political authority as the only representative of the people . |
| 28 | Right , er another situation where there 's men and women differences is in multilingual communities , er you find that men and women 's attitudes to varieties or language varieties or languages can carry so some men will try and avoid using one of their languages because they see it as a low prestige variety whereas some women will use it because for them it 's a high prestige variety . |
| 29 | They have exempted it from public expenditure cuts because they see it as an investment for the future . |
| 30 | 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 . |