Example sentences of "they [vb past] 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 | They found it in the simultaneous detonation of 454,000kg/ 1m lb of explosives in deep tunnels under the German front line . |
| 9 | To the British , Jamaica was the ‘ key to the Indies ’ when they captured it from the Spanish as an afterthought in 1655 . |
| 10 | The surprise here is that they did it with the best , very purest intentions , poor lambs . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They won it for the outstanding service that they had given two clients , Comfort Cooling and PSA . |
| 13 | Last season they won it for the second year in succession with some ease , and without their players being seriously extended . |
| 14 | It was a thin day , and they ran it on the four o'clock news . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the replay they left it to the 90th and won in extra-time . |
| 17 | In the replay they left it to the 90th and won in extra-time . |
| 18 | I ca n't understand why they left it till the last moment ? |
| 19 | They carried it in the late-morning edition . |