Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them seemed to view it as a sort of health cure . |
| 2 | Twenty years later , after including a pledge to abolish the Lords in the 1983 manifesto and dropping it from the 1987 manifesto , the Labour party again committed itself to reform of the Lords : now they planned to replace it with an elected chamber designed more to reflect the diversity of the nation and the regions , but with less legislative power . |
| 3 | The citadel bacame a furniture warehouse , before it was bought by Tamara Malcom and her husband in 1973 and they applied to convert it into a theatre . |
| 4 | We 'd keep them for a fortnight in those pigeon holes because most people claim stuff if they realize where they 'd left it within a day or two and then as the weeks went round we used to take stuff out of there and just lump it altogether , having duly labelled it up and erm record it and used to have tuppence an item if anybody lost anything . |
| 5 | The Quix supermarket had refused the box because they 'd ha although they 'd had it for a cert for quite a long time during the miner 's strike I think . |
| 6 | Bob Rafelson had been toiling with Nicholson 's friend and associate Carol Eastman on a script for a new film and as it came towards completion , they began to see it as a perfect vehicle for BBS to capitalize on its success with Easy Rider . |
| 7 | They undertook to do it for the whole of the Caldmore area did they ? |
| 8 | They decided to price it in the middle of the range , at the ‘ black label ’ level , but they issued the actual record with a special Royal Purple design . |
| 9 | They may not have a reason to prefer one way of going about things to another , but the fact that they chose to do it in a particular way gives them a reason to prefer that way from now on . |
| 10 | But we do think that the fact that they chose to launch it on the last day of our Conference is quite a compliment ; it was after all the Green Party that forced the government to produce the White Paper as a result of our fifteen% in the European Elections last year . |
| 11 | ‘ When our family shareholders decided the time had come to sell the company , they offered to sell it to the management team if we could match the price a trade bidder could pay . |
| 12 | So erm anyway they they they did do it in the end . |
| 13 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 14 | No I think it was the rose fertiliser , they said use it for the tomatoes as well . |
| 15 | King Francis became so rotten that when they took his corpse to St Denis they had to put it in a lead coffin . |
| 16 | And then they decide , found out they had to put it in the fridge for twenty four hours , so there was I sitting there expecting a biscuit , I did n't get one . |
| 17 | He discovered that two Spitfires from 602 Squadron had actually met the ME110 head on — quite fortuitously — but it had been going so fast they had lost it by the time they 'd turned around . |
| 18 | By the time they had received instructions to follow and observe , they had lost it in a swirl of speed at one hundred and forty miles an hour . |
| 19 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 20 | Instead , they had fed it with the only food he knew . |
| 21 | A short time before , estate agents ' men had put up a board to say that five houses were to be built — but they had erected it in the flower garden of the house instead of in the field as they had been instructed . |
| 22 | They had discovered it in the bed last night when one of them had found themselves lying on it , and it had been pitched out into the darkness . |
| 23 | When someone discovered something , they had to explain it to the others , and this reinforced their own understanding . |
| 24 | In 1899 , when the New York , New Haven , and Hartford Company had built their magnificent new station at Providence , Rhode Island , they had planned it without a train-shed . |
| 25 | They had swapped it for a modern flat in a concrete skyscraper . |
| 26 | She implied that they had heard it in the shop and Tony said reassuringly , ‘ Do n't worry about it . |
| 27 | His father had wounded another bull in the same herd , but not mortally , and although they had tracked it by a faint blood trail for an hour , in the end , to the senator 's ill-concealed irritation , they had been forced to abandon the search . |
| 28 | They had relayed it through the Royalbion representative there , Jim Fletcher . |
| 29 | Well it should n't it it did i but if you just went up to the top they got a pair of I should think about four or five lengths they had to take it off the sprocket and er course you see they |
| 30 | ‘ When they had read the publicity material offering help for the recently bereaved they had read it as an opportunity to be out and meet people again . |