Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They have admitted some of the questions on this paper are too difficult for the children and in Anthony 's school , where they took it as a class test , I believe the highest marks were about 40 or 42pc . ’ |
| 2 | It spread to the Chinese around 2 , years ago and then reached Japan where they cultivated it into the art form it is today . |
| 3 | Who had tried what , where they got it from , what it cost , and how they balance the accounts of risk and pleasure . |
| 4 | Chukar-type partridges Alectoris are longer , more upright and slightly more pheasant-like than smaller Perdix , and readily distinguished where they overlap it in W and S Europe by black and white eyestripes , white chin and throat , broad black band extending from eye down neck to form breast-band , conspicuous black and white barring on flanks , and red bill and legs . |
| 5 | most of the changes that have been made to those houses have been er erm at the request of Newton Sherwood District Council , they the the they lifted the room pitch , we had a lower one , they wanted a higher one , erm , and you know , erm , all all basically erm the the although they counted it as a change since application |
| 6 | MacDonald concludes with the view that non-traditional students are an advantage to higher education although they present it with a challenge . |
| 7 | The managers I interviewed appeared to lack commitment to improving motivation , although they identified it as a problem . |
| 8 | Although they see it as a step in the right direction , people working in the area fear that it may take another generation before Karamoja cools down . |
| 9 | Room echo back then was virtually unheard of in recording , although they used it in motion pictures for sound effects . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | she goes to part-time so they get it at a reduced rate . |
| 12 | The second one the second man says I want a year 's , I want ten years ' supply of whisky , right , so they sling it in there . |
| 13 | They could n't come to a decision so they put it to the vote when — as the book put it — a pair of bearded anarchists , one with flame red hair , appeared out of nowhere and took their decision for them , smashing down the gates with sledgehammers . |
| 14 | Just as we need encouragement from others so they need it from us . |
| 15 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |
| 16 | ‘ Lots of women who have fine hair hanker after long , thick hair , so they grow it in the mistaken belief that the longer it gets , the more hair they have and the fuller it will look , ’ explained Charles . |
| 17 | And then she checked Well anyway the week after he 'd phoned there was no what you call in it so he wrote it in to the damn thing and said why is it when some people puts adverts in they not only put it in once they put it in three or four times the same week |
| 18 | In sufficient numbers innovation-weary teachers can make any change a change for the worse if they implement it in a resentful , half-hearted or half-baked fashion , and under these conditions even the brightest and the best schemes are going to flop . |
| 19 | cunt , wonder what that would be if they put it in a dictionary . |
| 20 | If they accepted it of course . |
| 21 | If this were the case then a junction would only be more likely to be recalled if the subject had actually felt at risk even if they knew it to be a generally dangerous junction . |
| 22 | In other words teachers and schools will readily seek to improve their practice if they regard it as part of their professional responsibility , whereas they are likely to resist change that is forced on them . |
| 23 | But even saying that , if they doubled it to two hundred pounds , it 's a lot of years before we reach four thousand pounds . |
| 24 | The Mitchells were granted permission to burn charcoal from coppiced timber at Hangman 's Wood if they returned it to this state of management . |
| 25 | If this is missing write to : Information from Records , DVLC , Swansea , SA99 lAN , who can give you the information ( if they hold it on their microfilmed records ) . |
| 26 | Vince has has raised a point about er erm , informing er and consulting local people and to let local people know erm when the meetings are then local ca n't go , I 'm sure that if they really wanted people to come they 'd make it much more er , in erm with the advertising so clear that er people would be able to and also if they had it at the times when a their meeting at the times when it was mostly convenient to er , the general public . |
| 27 | They would support the union if they thought it to be in their interest to do so . |
| 28 | Parents , on the other hand , however much they have suffered at school , or even if they left it with a sense of failure , usually attribute the shortcomings to themselves rather than to the system , and thus find it difficult to envisage school in any form other than the one that they themselves experienced . |
| 29 | If they left it in the hands of it would be a much better song . |
| 30 | Erm if they took it from minus ten to plus ten |