Example sentences of "they [vb base] it [prep] [art] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Now that is a large part of our culture , which in a sense gets sucked into the educational establishment and sucked into teaching relationships , and because it 's such a consistent part of the way in which women are seen , I think they perceive it as a greater problem . |
| 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 | When we have a little technical problem they transform it into a big one . ’ |
| 6 | Or they place it in a busy part of the house , near the back door , where people are always walking past . |
| 7 | No , they send it in a bloody big one . |
| 8 | These become almost like rituals as the cat grows older — little routines that reward the animal because they involve it in a social interaction with its owners or their guests . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And then you find that when they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to realize . |
| 11 | They they deserve it to a certain extent . |
| 12 | They put it on a bigger scale but the entertainment far below ours ! |
| 13 | They project it through a special lens . |
| 14 | It is of course difficult to ‘ police ’ this objection , and there is a certain ambivalence in the attitude of some countries ; recognising the usefulness of postal service , they welcome it as a supplementary method designed to back up the ‘ official ’ service effected in other ways , but are unhappy to see the postal channel treated as appropriate or sufficient in itself . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They describe it as a terrifying ordeal and although it was around two o'clock in the morning , they say a number of people were in the area and could help their search for the rapist . |
| 17 | So really you 're you ca n't lose they come they give you the best advice , they give it in a written form . |
| 18 | Auto-exposure systems work by measuring the average brightness of the incoming picture , and they control it to a standard level by varying the lens iris opening and the ‘ gain ’ of the camcorder 's video amplifier . |
| 19 | Of course er they have about erm well I 'm not sure , about twenty eight or thirty thousand gallons of diesel stocked up there , and of course in them buying it in bulk like that they get it at a cheaper rate . |
| 20 | she goes to part-time so they get it at a reduced rate . |
| 21 | When workers which have been out foraging return with crops full of honeydew and nectar , they feed it to a replete , which swells until its abdomen , once no bigger than a grain of sand , has swollen to the size of a large pea . |
| 22 | When Christians in this tradition talk of reason , on the other hand , they dismiss it as a human work , tainted therefore by sin and liable to mislead . |
| 23 | Ultraviolet light is so important to insects that they use it as a main component of their colour vision . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The dealers do n't get a penny ; they do it as a public service . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | The Olympic athletes , the cricketers and the tennis seeds are just playing games , although one can hope that they do it in a sporting fashion . |
| 29 | They do it in the Labour Club , you can go in there |
| 30 | ‘ Well , they do it in the normal way usually . |