Example sentences of "people [verb] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Whit ’ was dropped from the title but people failed to recognise it as the old Bradford Whit Walk , so the event reverted to the original name .
2 If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter .
3 Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time .
4 Some people get awarded it before the trial period is up .
5 If it is a popular tune , its spread through the meme pool may be gauged by the number of people heard whistling it in the streets .
6 People have done it in the past and have regretted it .
7 Only nine people have made it to the top in winter — and one died on the way down .
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