Example sentences of "they [vb past] it [prep] [art] [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 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | It was a royal monopoly , and an earlier King Arkesilas is depicted on a Spartan vase of the mid-sixth century supervising his officials as they weighed it on a man-size balance ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate vi . |
| 7 | Two fifteenth-century archbishops of Canterbury , Chichele and Bourchier , write of ‘ the Church of England ’ in terms which show that they regarded it as a distinctive entity within the Church Universal , and one in which they could take considerable national pride . |
| 8 | They found it in the simultaneous detonation of 454,000kg/ 1m lb of explosives in deep tunnels under the German front line . |
| 9 | Both leaders admitted that several issues remained unresolved by the treaty , but they described it as a good basis for the development of future bilateral relations . |
| 10 | Erm I would imagine Tukuse that the the difference that you put in difference that you would get between the reportage , to use a French expression , of Princess Diana 's abdication from public life was probably quite pronounced between say for example the Sun newspaper and the Independent newspaper I would imagine that the Independent newspaper probably did n't play in any great significance , it was probably on the front page , perhaps not with a picture but erm there was a couple of columns of report erm the Independent is famous as being the newspaper which when Prince Charles and Lady Diana got married many years ago , they reported it with a single paragraph saying Prince Charles and Diana , the whole world went made at the Royal Wedding and the Independent had one paragraph , which many people , including myself , said right on . |
| 11 | They reported it as a negligent discharge during a change of the guard . |
| 12 | When the villains were unable to get the caravan up a small incline , they hitched it to a stolen vehicle and wheel-spun their way onto the road . |
| 13 | When they discovered this famous Plowden sentence about the importance of the child at the top of this chapter , they welcomed it with a great sigh of relief . |
| 14 | To the British , Jamaica was the ‘ key to the Indies ’ when they captured it from the Spanish as an afterthought in 1655 . |
| 15 | They slowed it to a steady well , but it would n't stop , and through it all there was the awful screaming . |
| 16 | Instead of sending back to Britain for a , a part , they took it off an old tank you see , and on that had been part was still all right you see , but the tank was er useless but there would maybe be a bit of the track alright , so we cannibalized them . |
| 17 | When the Knights first took over the island on their expulsion from the eastern Mediterranean , they saw it as a penitential desert exile . |
| 18 | It might have been oh so different had Northern Ireland capitalised on that early lead but instead they treated it like a hot potato and the two points were not safe until the Finish referee heralded it the Finish of the game . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They won it for the outstanding service that they had given two clients , Comfort Cooling and PSA . |
| 21 | They accepted it as a general statement of how things were in the past . |
| 22 | They carried it in the late-morning edition . |
| 23 | Born , they held it like a long skinned thing and for a moment she stared at it hanging in the air not knowing if it was alive or dead , good or bad , not believing it was over . |