Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the act the holder of information has to disclose the type of information they hold , where they 've got it from , and who they intend to disclose it to . |
| 2 | If girls deviate , they tend to do it in a way that causes far less disruption than boys , such as pretending to write when they are bored . |
| 3 | The cost of weapons often means they are in potentially short supply , all the more so because once commanders find that a weapon works , they want to use it for everything . |
| 4 | I am talking about prisoners who do not want problems in serving their sentence ; they want to serve it in a civilised fashion , where that is possible in any prison regime . |
| 5 | She says they want to spend it on recreation , holidays , books , equipment and special aids which will help them have a better life . |
| 6 | They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living . |
| 7 | ‘ They just want to do the job they are paid and trained to do and they want to do it in suitable clothing , ie in uniform . ’ |
| 8 | Think later , be about five o'clock or quarter to five , or something like that depends when it 's on , have to come in early if they want to have it with us . |
| 9 | They say who they want to send it to , add a few notes , send it off and are dropped straight back into the spreadsheet . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Many British and American tourists feel that they have connections with some part of Scottish history and they want to experience it for themselves . ’ |
| 11 | For example , although they may initially over-extend a word like dog to a variety of different four-legged mammals , they cease to apply it to any part of the domain newly taken over with the acquisition of a new word . |
| 12 | And what they used to do is they say coat it with silver , they might coat it with copper first . |
| 13 | The couple have been offered a decoration grant of £210 , hardly enough , they say to turn it into a home . |
| 14 | The staunchest opponents of reform strike a revealing pose : rather than argue against it , they seek to undermine it by espousing an extreme version . |
| 15 | They hope to have it by then |
| 16 | He says they seem to regard it as a holiday and those birds that are over twelve months old have been through this before and seem to look forward to it |
| 17 | The residents and traders do not seem overly worried about indiscriminate parking they seem to regard it as an advantage which the town has over others . |
| 18 | They have got enough money but they like to keep it for as long as possible . |
| 19 | The top management did n't bother about that , they know left it to the local you see . |
| 20 | ‘ Everybody who carries a knife should know that if they try to take it into a club , they wo n't just be banned from that club , but all the clubs in town . ’ |
| 21 | They try to hide it in a wardrobe , but it will not fit . |
| 22 | But because she 's back here , she still sometimes does it , and in fact they do do it for her . |
| 23 | but I have actually worked for organizations where they do see it in terms of those centimetre arr erm measurements and that 's a you know I mean it 's funny when I 've been giving talks on communications erm one of the things I say to people is erm where your stuff appears is crucial do n't worry about one and page three . |
| 24 | They aim to finance it by attracting a minimum of one million households paying £10 a month each for access to the football-only channel . |
| 25 | People with valuable secrets ought not to allow subordinate employees … to obtain knowledge of this kind , and if they choose to do it without warning them they will find it very difficult to claim interlocutory relief successfully " . |
| 26 | Or they thought they were and the only people they 're going to get any more from is the parents , nowhere else , nobody else is going to give them anything I 've got no illusions about it , I do n't expect you to get anything from anywhere else , and I know that you , you would n't get anything from anywhere else because they , they 've cut it , they 've cut it to the bone and the only people that can afford to go now and to live in anything like |
| 27 | The bothy was in Pat 's family , and they 've made it into a lovely home . |
| 28 | John McFarlane , Donald Brydon , the Katherine Howards , the Iain Dobbies , they 've made it for me . ’ |
| 29 | But they do n't actually scoop it out off from the blast furnace , they drill a hole in the side where they 've plugged it with a lump of clay . |
| 30 | I 'd actually go a bit further and say yes we 'd like to do this , can we also look after road maintenance as well , because the road maintenance is sent out to contractors , contractors are so busy , they ca n't actually do half this work , they 've got a list as long as your arm , so pit pitfalls in in the pavements as well as as some of the motorways are n't being done because the contract 's been placed , but they 've placed it with the wrong people . |