Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They undertook to do it for the whole of the Caldmore area did they ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | So erm anyway they they they did do it in the end . |
| 6 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 7 | No I think it was the rose fertiliser , they said use it for the tomatoes as well . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 11 | Instead , they had fed it with the only food he knew . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When someone discovered something , they had to explain it to the others , and this reinforced their own understanding . |
| 15 | She implied that they had heard it in the shop and Tony said reassuringly , ‘ Do n't worry about it . |
| 16 | They had relayed it through the Royalbion representative there , Jim Fletcher . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | When I phoned Kagan he told me that he had instructed his trustees in Israel to make the payment , but by some terrible misunderstanding they had paid it into the wrong charity . ’ |
| 19 | The purpose of this and of other victim studies was to elicit from respondents whether they had been the victim of a crime , and if so , which types of crime and whether they had reported it to the police . |
| 20 | As we have seen , repeal feminists had not been opposed to moral disciplining but they had promoted it through the more ‘ feminine ’ domain of voluntary agencies , attacking the statist solutions of male professionals . |
| 21 | We happen to know from the historian Livy that a city called Morgantina was settled by the Romans with a group of Spaniards who were fighting on their side in Sicily , after they had captured it from the Carthaginians in 211BC , and the coins thereby enabled the site to be identified as that of Morgantina . |
| 22 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |