Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The top management did n't bother about that , they know left it to the local you see . |
| 2 | Or they thought they were and the only people they 're going to get any more from is the parents , nowhere else , nobody else is going to give them anything I 've got no illusions about it , I do n't expect you to get anything from anywhere else , and I know that you , you would n't get anything from anywhere else because they , they 've cut it , they 've cut it to the bone and the only people that can afford to go now and to live in anything like |
| 3 | I 'd actually go a bit further and say yes we 'd like to do this , can we also look after road maintenance as well , because the road maintenance is sent out to contractors , contractors are so busy , they ca n't actually do half this work , they 've got a list as long as your arm , so pit pitfalls in in the pavements as well as as some of the motorways are n't being done because the contract 's been placed , but they 've placed it with the wrong people . |
| 4 | I 'm sure Linfield would rather have got to the first round proper by playing football but at least they 've played it by the rules and good luck to them against Copenhagen . |
| 5 | They 've done it in the Vale . |
| 6 | And they 've clouted it from the outside going in . |
| 7 | They 've put it in the sun whatever it is . |
| 8 | They 've got it at the Law College and I 've I 've spent some lunchtimes fiddling with it and thinking I want ! |
| 9 | ‘ They 've got it up the stairs and through the front door , ’ he told them , the practical words giving nothing away about his mood . |
| 10 | In this respect , the French government is right to have made the Minister of Culture also Minister of Education ( although whether they have done it for the right reasons , and with the right man is another matter ) . |
| 11 | He then says that Caesar does n't seem to let his emotions speak more than his reason , but ( this is the next six or seven lines ) when ambitious young people are starting out , at the bottom of the heap , they are humble and look up with awe , but once they have made it to the top , they scorn all those below them , who have helped them to get there . |
| 12 | They have received it in the shape of detailed educational theory carefully worked out to see them through the maturation process from infancy to adulthood . |
| 13 | They have roughed it around the world ever since , at an age when most people would be content with a game of bowls at Eastbourne . |
| 14 | They have put it to the test and found it true . |
| 15 | So you try it with the sixes see if they work try it with the sevens try it with the eights see what works . |