Example sentences of "they [vb past] it [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hereford were due a break as well and sure enough , they got it against Gillingham at Edgar Street . |
| 2 | The Monastery of Saint James had been quite destroyed , and they passed it without halting . |
| 3 | Instead of transferring the ball from defence to attack with the trajectory of a mortar shell , they passed it to feet , and were even allowed to run with it . |
| 4 | The point in both appeals was whether the jury should have been allowed to hear the tape recording of the appellant 's interview with the police when they requested it after retirement , it not having been played to them during the course of the trial . |
| 5 | and they get that one back in Thursday and they read it to teacher , so it 's two a week and up till |
| 6 | They never actually moved in and they promised it to Daddy . |
| 7 | On another occasion he described how he had ‘ once spent several hours on a bicycle with a friend in a serious attempt to discover the real spot but the search ended in failure though tourists assure me positively that they found it without difficulty ’ . |
| 8 | They found it in Alec d'Urberville 's heart . |
| 9 | Room echo back then was virtually unheard of in recording , although they used it in motion pictures for sound effects . ’ |
| 10 | I think I 've made the right decision because Foyly scored two goals , and I do n't think you stop a player of his quality , I mean they tried it with George Best , they 've tried it with , you know Manfred Mann and they always do something special do n't they ? |
| 11 | They mentioned it on BBC TV yesterday . |
| 12 | And so er well they hired it from Moss Bros they did , Uncle Jonathan paid the fee , for the rental of the of the gown and whatnot to try this case . |
| 13 | They filled it with period furniture and even had an antique staircase installed . |
| 14 | It seemed a simple system when I got to know it , but wondered what it was all about , with chaps standing in different places and shouting and bawling where they wanted this waggon that was being pushed off , as he came running without the train they diverted it into siding , you see , sorting out a train . |
| 15 | And they mapped it in Summer School |
| 16 | I could not go to it but they showed it on television . |
| 17 | They showed it to Murray and he confiscated it immediately . |
| 18 | You remember when they screwed it in daddy 's old |
| 19 | They regained it in February , clinching the Championship outright this time , with a draw at Notts County , while the reserves won the Central League . |
| 20 | Responsibility for the replacement of parliamentary rule by bureaucratic dominance , Benn argues further , must be shared by the successive prime ministers ; they encouraged it in order to maximize their personal power within their administrations . |
| 21 | Until they supplemented it by jadeite from Burma during the eighteenth century , the Chinese relied on nephrite . |
| 22 | They always liked it , she declared , and rice pudding too , come to that , though heaven alone knew why , the way they cooked it in Wisteria Lodge . |
| 23 | This left a greater disposable income in the hands of Californians and , as anticipated , they spent it on consumer goods , creating an estimated 250,000 new jobs in the process . |
| 24 | Jews despised and hated Gentiles : despised them because they did not belong to the elect ; and hated them because they lorded it over God 's chosen people . |
| 25 | It was a terribly long journey , even though they broke it in Florida . |
| 26 | When it was ready , they padded it with straw and blankets . |
| 27 | There was a case in Lothian last year where the health board objected to the conversion of somewhere into a 75 bed registered nursing home and they lost it on appeal . |
| 28 | ‘ They brought it from France . |
| 29 | They took it off ITV ; in a survey , WOMAN readers said no , they did n't want it back ; it 's fixed , it 's theatrical and , at the end of the evening 's entertainment , you feel every so slightly tacky . |
| 30 | Erm if they took it from minus ten to plus ten |