Example sentences of "it [subord] they [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Puffins leaving their homes join it immediately and travel round within it until they reach the seaward side and relative safety . |
| 2 | A Tory headquarters spokesman denied they disclosed her name to the press , claiming they did not know it until they saw the Independent newspaper on Wednesday . |
| 3 | Now what we have to know is whether or not they are in fact getting these contracts because they are the best and the cheapest , or whether they are getting it because they have the best connections and they are paying the most money . |
| 4 | When Sarah told her that he had been offered and refused a foreman 's job , Anne was bitterly angry that he had said nothing about it when they met the previous evening , but now she was unable to resist saying , ‘ Yes , that would be great , ’ as coolly as possible . |
| 5 | Could n't believe it when they got the first goal after ten seconds |
| 6 | They will conclude , as people on a South London council estate expressed it when they observed the middle-class congregation going into their local church each Sunday , ‘ That church is n't for the likes of us . ’ |
| 7 | Well I love it when they do the acrobatic part of it ! |