Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Josh for younger girls , they must think it keeps them young . |
| 2 | They must know it 's been going on at domestic and international level for a long time . |
| 3 | Nowadays there 's an enormous amount of information about us kept in computers , and there are laws which certainly sound as though they should stop it falling into unauthorized hands . |
| 4 | There is talk of setting up a ‘ proud to be perverted ’ pressure group along the lines of Act Up ) , ( perhaps they should call it Strapped Up ) , which will campaign around the issue of consent , the idea that whatever two adults agree to do in the privacy of their own homes is no concern of the courts . |
| 5 | They should get it moving again . |
| 6 | ‘ Mind you , you 'll have to write out the replies yourself in your own handwriting and in your own words — they 'll expect it to come from you . ’ |
| 7 | If you start with a quarter page like any sale if you start with the cheapest they 'll take it forget the rest . |
| 8 | ‘ But you 'd better go and check the car , or they 'll have it stripped . ’ |
| 9 | okay and they 'll get it cut onto vinyl . |
| 10 | Donleavy had thought seriously about the chance encounter with Hurley , and , on balance , had decided that they might turn it to account , although … |
| 11 | They might have it done in white black and wood . |
| 12 | Tension choked them : they could feel it rising up their throats , threatening to swamp their brains . |
| 13 | When Dulé and his companions regained the beach , they were so stunned and wearied by the water and the flames , the howling and frantic clangour of their rout , that they dragged themselves and their boat to the first cover they could find , and lay face down against the earth ; they could sense it trembling as if it were an animal alive beneath them . |
| 14 | The friction of their two radiances created a third ; they could sense it building up between them and around them . |
| 15 | In the light from the glowing pillars they could see it twist and settle slowly as they disturbed it . |
| 16 | They could see it racing across the ground ahead of them — grey around the edges , spreading into the darkness of night . |
| 17 | They could have it done professionally , he supposed , wearily imagining a pile of builders ' estimates . |
| 18 | They walked regardless of the weather : on early spring mornings when the sky was remote and pale as a plover 's egg ; on stormy autumn afternoons when they felt they could reach up and touch the lowering clouds that covered the land like a bruise ; and on frozen winter days when the sky was a white membrane stretched so tight that they could imagine it cracking with the cold . |
| 19 | She says in Belgium they 'd give it scraps that people did n't want . ’ |
| 20 | Like they 'd want it to look . ’ |
| 21 | Well I would the only thing I can say in this is this cash , I know they said they 'd get it got in the piggy bank before the poll tax , but as they keep shouting about they 've got to put the poll tax up , they 've got no money , they they 're putting the staff off and one thing and another . |
| 22 | He was given four options : default and risk losing his good name ; pay everything immediately ; make six monthly payments of $400 and they 'd call it quits ; send in $70 and they 'd get back to him later . |
| 23 | They 'd call it Beatpop . |
| 24 | So they thought they 'd have it checked out ? |
| 25 | Er medical and then sometimes people with a lot of money if they needed a not a particularly dangerous operation they 'd have it done in their own homes . |
| 26 | The Aymaraians ( Andes dwellers ) are very shy people and if , and when , they did consent to be photographed , they 'd insist it did n't take long . ’ |
| 27 | My work had to be spontaneous so I have n't time to work out lighting etc … = The Aymarians ( Andes dwellers ) are very shy people and if , and when , they did consent to be photographed , they 'd insist it did n't take long . ’ |
| 28 | They used to call it drawing or clipping and scalloping you see . |
| 29 | said that they would want it increased by 2p and 11 per cent . |
| 30 | Eldorado 's death knell has been heralded since the week it started on July 6 , although BBC bosses had said they would keep it going for five years despite the torrent of criticism . |