Example sentences of "they [verb] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | There was a ditch the other side of it , which should present no problems provided they met it on the right stride . |
2 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |
3 | They made it to the winning post fairly creditably . |
4 | The South Koreans are rated because they made it to the last World Cup finals , but personally I will always think of the North Koreans in ‘ 66 . |
5 | Frankie 's fall reflected the way they made it in the first place , through marketing rather than live performance . |
6 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
7 | ‘ They spent a fortune developing the place , ’ the Maggot said , ‘ but the rich folks never came , so they sold it to the rich dickheads instead . ’ |
8 | 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 . |
9 | ‘ 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 . |
10 | They found it in the simultaneous detonation of 454,000kg/ 1m lb of explosives in deep tunnels under the German front line . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | And then you find that when they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to realize . |
13 | If the Government can do it for the Bosnians , why ca n't they do it for the homeless ? |
14 | To the British , Jamaica was the ‘ key to the Indies ’ when they captured it from the Spanish as an afterthought in 1655 . |
15 | Why ca n't they take it through the back door and up the stair ? |
16 | The surprise here is that they did it with the best , very purest intentions , poor lambs . |
17 | Can there be anything more telling about the deviousness of these people than his account of how they actually put on television and interviewed a man who was said to have died while in a prison cell , and that , moreover , they did it with the sole motive of demonstrating that he was alive and in good health . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
21 | They do it in the Labour Club , you can go in there |
22 | ‘ Well , they do it in the normal way usually . |
23 | it 's not a reflex action that the Labour Party somehow engages in , but there are things that we need to rave raise revenue for , such as investment in the economy , like our social policies , and that the way that we will raise revenue is that we we will have a fair taxation system , that is very straightforward , and agreed by the Party , unlike the Conservatives who firstly do n't recognize there is any purpose in investment in the economy , public investment , or investment in social policies they do n't agree with , and secondly , when they do have to raise money they do it in the unfairest possible way , penalizing most those who can least |
24 | At least that 's what they call it in the remote and rugged Star Mountains of Papua New Guinea . |
25 | They play it in the Soviet Union . |
26 | They won it for the outstanding service that they had given two clients , Comfort Cooling and PSA . |
27 | Last season they won it for the second year in succession with some ease , and without their players being seriously extended . |
28 | It was a thin day , and they ran it on the four o'clock news . |
29 | Yeah , and then from that they 've now got these fucking things that show the direction , the sign , the speed and oh its incredible sonar 's been going longer than radar , but only just we were the world leader 's now , I mean we cos we , cos we preserve fuel , we knew exactly , they left it for the last minute to get up there and intercept them . |
30 | In the replay they left it to the 90th and won in extra-time . |