Example sentences of "they [verb] it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is a coincidence that they announced it on the eve of my press conference , ’ he admitted . |
| 2 | If very dirty they lay it in the stream , securing it with a large stone , and let the water flow through it for some time , after which they proceed as before … the linen is spread upon the rocks in the river , or the walls near at hand , and secured , like everything else by a stone at each corner … |
| 3 | It spread to the Chinese around 2 , years ago and then reached Japan where they cultivated it into the art form it is today . |
| 4 | When they got it to the surface , they had seen a writhing mass of jelly , from which two fierce eyes had peered at them . |
| 5 | Oh well they got it during the War . |
| 6 | They got it out the back of my hand . |
| 7 | So , I mean , er it 's the proof old folks that get it , they got it in the war time , they had to starve in war time to feed their children . |
| 8 | The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour . |
| 9 | For those people who can sever their own feet and lurch away , they got it round the neck later from a special breed of Tightness that lives in the baskets of flowers up lamp posts . |
| 10 | But they made it to the boat , which sailed in the early hours of 1 September , two days before war was declared . |
| 11 | They made it to the end of the road in Bombay where all the cars had to be steam cleaned inside and out for the last leg of the journey . |
| 12 | The Pollexton dynasty had finished by 1747 , and from then on various relations spurned Mothecome until eventually they sold it at the end of the eighteenth century to a Mildmay forbear . |
| 13 | They read it on the printer |
| 14 | ‘ They recommended it to the Department of Employment but were told that things had been tightened up because of a Bulgarian footballer who was signed by Ipswich Town and then found to have less international caps than at first thought . |
| 15 | Sixty six she was , so in we go , and it 's got open to the general public , so this man said to her something about I ca n't serve you I 've had a robbery , she said I do n't know why they advertise it on the window if he 's , if he 's not prepared to serve me and when I looked round there was all the taken over , they had a burglary . |
| 16 | They stopped it in the end did n't they ? |
| 17 | They moved it round the stack . |
| 18 | They honour it in the manner of warring tribes observing a precarious truce , waiting nervously for hostilities to reopen . |
| 19 | They found it on the corner of Bread Street , a narrow , two-storeyed tenement with a shop below and living quarters above . |
| 20 | Someone 's phoned in to say they found it on the grass . |
| 21 | They used it of the sun , did n't they ? |
| 22 | Stab the heel and they drip the blood out onto a piece of blotting paper and it dries and they send it to the laboratory and they punch it out and they examine it and they test it . |
| 23 | I think they mentioned it on the video . |
| 24 | And then when he gave it up when his wife died , he stopped it then and they changed it into the West Mainland Horse Breeding Society . |
| 25 | Whatever is necessary they have , they receive it from the community , and the magistrate takes care that no one receives more than he deserves . ’ |
| 26 | After sorely abusing the corpse , they buried it at the foot of the gallows , intending the burial as a final disgrace . |
| 27 | For them , they played it on the ground , and so their forwards could get to the ball … or pressure the defence for a back pass , or a throw in . |
| 28 | but he did , anyway last night when these , this car arrived , they parked it down the road outside George 's , well I 've never known that and I reckon Alan 's put a note through the door |
| 29 | Because of the recent return to figuration in the last ten years there is an enormous interest in British portraiture , but they put on a show like the ‘ Swagger portrait ’ only at the Tate Gallery ; why do n't they do it at the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome ; why not the Palazzo Reale , Milan ? |
| 30 | because they do n't give a specific definition as to what a landlord is or a rich peasant or a middle peasant meant that how that there was a lot of flexibility within that and it 's only later that they have to reissue those two documents on how to analyze the classes which erm which had been published in nineteen thirty which they felt that you know the Party 's moving too far away , but why did n't they do it at the time ? |