Example sentences of "they [verb] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I think it 's just I think they plan well according er to John yesterday they planned it this way . |
| 2 | They planned it this way ? |
| 3 | Gloucestershire are soldering on without Syd … in the sunday league they made it two wins in a row with a five wicket victory over Lancashire at Old Trafford |
| 4 | our rugby action this week comes from the divisional championships … the South West are on course to win these because on Saturday at Gloucester they made it two wins out of two … this time out they beat the North by 29 points to 16 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | they want it both sides of the coin do n't they ? |
| 7 | I like to think they found it fun flying , too . |
| 8 | She often shrewdly suspected that they found it hard work too , and that for all their signatures of fondest love they did not really like her ; they wanted her , they thought that she would do , but they did not really like her . |
| 9 | ‘ They say it three times ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It 's what they put down the lavatory to disinfect the pan only they give it another name . ’ |
| 13 | Today , many of it 's current students made it clear they like it that way . |
| 14 | No when they hear it all day |
| 15 | The gravediggers got hold of the coffin and shook it ; they pulled it this way and that , twisted it , hacked at it with a spade , levered at it with crowbars ; but still it would n't move . |
| 16 | To distinguish it from the medieval part of the college which hugs the splendid fifteenth-century cloisters , they called it New Buildings . |
| 17 | was a digestive tea , they called it Digestive Tea in those days . |
| 18 | They called it smoked salmon and I immediately concluded it was some sort of rich man 's herring . |
| 19 | What do they call it that hall ? |
| 20 | I do n't know why they decided it that way . |
| 21 | yeah yeah what did you say they did it three times ? |
| 22 | ‘ They did it this morning . |
| 23 | They did it last year . |
| 24 | they do it that way . |
| 25 | They bought it all cash . |
| 26 | And they bought it last summer and they 've had trouble ever since ! |
| 27 | They bought it last August for general farm work on the 445ha ( 1,100-acre ) all-arable farm . |
| 28 | They gave it double smiles and blank silence |
| 29 | Now they call it defensive driver training and er what we 're really talking about is safe driving , nothing more and nothing less . |
| 30 | so I says it 's going , now as far as the , er , what they call it that fella that come to did that job |