Example sentences of "they [verb] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't know what they had been doing to him , but whatever it was he did n't like it , and he was going to let them know it in the only way he knew — by making as loud a noise as he could ! |
| 2 | A series which is broadcast each week has a number of features designed into it to help viewers recognise " their " programme and encourage them to watch it at the same time every week . |
| 3 | There was a ditch the other side of it , which should present no problems provided they met it on the right stride . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They made it to the winning post fairly creditably . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Frankie 's fall reflected the way they made it in the first place , through marketing rather than live performance . |
| 8 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | But you can see why if you 're selling inappropriately , if you sell someone for example , a savings plan , and they cash it in the first four years , and they do n't even get what they paid in it , how they 're going to be very annoyed , because from what they could see , they were getting a savings plan . |
| 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 | They found it in the simultaneous detonation of 454,000kg/ 1m lb of explosives in deep tunnels under the German front line . |
| 13 | And then , when you find they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to look at yourself and realize what colour you are . |
| 14 | And then you find that when they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to realize . |
| 15 | If the Government can do it for the Bosnians , why ca n't they do it for the homeless ? |
| 16 | To the British , Jamaica was the ‘ key to the Indies ’ when they captured it from the Spanish as an afterthought in 1655 . |
| 17 | Why ca n't they take it through the back door and up the stair ? |
| 18 | The surprise here is that they did it with the best , very purest intentions , poor lambs . |
| 19 | Can there be anything more telling about the deviousness of these people than his account of how they actually put on television and interviewed a man who was said to have died while in a prison cell , and that , moreover , they did it with the sole motive of demonstrating that he was alive and in good health . |
| 20 | They do it through the Social Services , erm they do it through the various schools erm they will probably give some places to the media so that they can run competitions which would encompass all the youngsters . |
| 21 | They do it through the Social Services , erm they do it through the various schools erm they will probably give some places to the media so that they can run competitions which would encompass all the youngsters . |
| 22 | ‘ There are a hundred ways a firm can get rid of pollution into the river , ’ said an experienced officer , ‘ so long as they do it at the right time . ’ |
| 23 | They do it in the Labour Club , you can go in there |
| 24 | ‘ Well , they do it in the normal way usually . |
| 25 | it 's not a reflex action that the Labour Party somehow engages in , but there are things that we need to rave raise revenue for , such as investment in the economy , like our social policies , and that the way that we will raise revenue is that we we will have a fair taxation system , that is very straightforward , and agreed by the Party , unlike the Conservatives who firstly do n't recognize there is any purpose in investment in the economy , public investment , or investment in social policies they do n't agree with , and secondly , when they do have to raise money they do it in the unfairest possible way , penalizing most those who can least |
| 26 | At least that 's what they call it in the remote and rugged Star Mountains of Papua New Guinea . |
| 27 | They play it in the Soviet Union . |
| 28 | They won it for the outstanding service that they had given two clients , Comfort Cooling and PSA . |
| 29 | Last season they won it for the second year in succession with some ease , and without their players being seriously extended . |
| 30 | It was a thin day , and they ran it on the four o'clock news . |