Example sentences of "they [vb base] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never found it to be a boring job , erm if it is boring I think it 's because they 're only making it , if they make it that way and I think it 's partly due , if they , if people do talk that way then I think it 's partly due to the sort of duty systems that people work now , and erm the number of hours they work , and , and strangely for little things like the introduction of television , I think television , very nice in its way but it 's killed life on fire stations and in certain areas , cos the whole business of conversation and learning and so on has gone , people would much sooner sit nowadays in front of the television and be entertained for an evening , instead of using all the other skills and , and erm things that are offered to them . |
| 2 | they want it both sides of the coin do n't they ? |
| 3 | ‘ They say it three times ? ’ |
| 4 | They are intended for those who like to probe into the whys and wherefores of things or who like to assess fully the credentials of a subject before they give it serious consideration . |
| 5 | But er , I was giving this er I 'd been giving it a stroke , and er it 's sort of dying to be fussed , but I do n't think they give it any attention across there . |
| 6 | It 's what they put down the lavatory to disinfect the pan only they give it another name . ’ |
| 7 | Today , many of it 's current students made it clear they like it that way . |
| 8 | No when they hear it all day |
| 9 | they do it that way . |
| 10 | Now they call it defensive driver training and er what we 're really talking about is safe driving , nothing more and nothing less . |
| 11 | so I says it 's going , now as far as the , er , what they call it that fella that come to did that job |
| 12 | At the moment , Mrs Thatcher and her ministers are playing the role they seem to like most , that of school bully — they call it strong government . |
| 13 | what they call it desperate dye faces |
| 14 | You know they do But anyway the point I was making was that they call it distant intimacy . |
| 15 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
| 16 | First you grow your flowers , and then you have to cut them and then display them , now I call that flower arranging , but here , they call it floral art , and you can understand why . |
| 17 | they call it this week , it changes names every week |
| 18 | ‘ They prefer it this way , I 'm telling you . |