Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , not only are legal firms unable to maximise the amount of extra business they can sell through cross-fertilisation of other specialised services , they are losing it to other providers of information and advice . |
| 2 | If they 've got any sense at all they should be I mean they 're getting it for free except for the telephone calls you might use |
| 3 | They 're pushing it like crazy . |
| 4 | Oh er they 're for some job at Street , they 're wanting it for some job or other . |
| 5 | That 's why they 're putting it on this week . |
| 6 | So they 're taki it 's I think it 's daft because they 're introducing it in nineteen ninety three and they 're taking two age groups instead of taking one . |
| 7 | So they can enter the secondary schools and they 're selling it to these young kids that just do n't know any better . |
| 8 | No , cos they 're doing it for all , they 're all doing for all over different places anyway . |
| 9 | It 's er , it 's not pleasant for them , and they 're doing it in wet weathers , but I mean whatever erm , I find for them you know , to wear , I mean , time after time they get their feet down and slip and get them in . |
| 10 | They 're changing it to more exams I mean , it changes to G C S E in the first place to get rid of having |
| 11 | ‘ They were sawing it in half and heaving all these rocks around on the Saturday morning trying to make it look like anything other than a total abortion . |
| 12 | They were rolling it on rusty ball bearings . |
| 13 | Well they were doing it at eleven o'clock last night , it must of been something like that because I heard every word |
| 14 | That was gathering it in and if they were putting it into little into tramp coles I had to get up and tramp hay round and round the boss and er I did that . |
| 15 | I 've I 've got a , a piece of this , this stuff I I bought it a piece sort of square they were selling it off cheap |
| 16 | See this was after the nationalization and the policy of the railway executive at that time was to instead of two stations in one town , they were all they were reducing it to one station you see . |
| 17 | that he 'd got a form and he was fetching it back in this afternoon and they was handing it over this afternoon . |