Example sentences of "they [vb past] it [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from Christopher most of them managed it Paul especially Richard he 's really clever I know who that is , Lady Di . |
| 2 | Oh yes they made it Miss has just died erm then coming down there was the Post Office with old Pa and the , then the Miss , they used to keep the Post Office , then there was er well there was a gents outfitters and then there was a beautiful shop I always used to think , it was called , another , but it was confectioners , but it was all most delightful old oldy-worldy sort of shop and my mother often used to go in there then you 'd |
| 3 | They sold it Christmas Eve day it was gon na go through the twenty third , Christmas , the day before Christmas erm it was gone and they were supposed to fly over to Spain and they were gon na , gone , exchange a contract to sell it and then she phoned me back and she said I 've got some good news for you , we 've decided not to sell , it 's so beautiful up there and it 's called Los |
| 4 | At the end of the tunnel there was another crossroads , and as they entered it Jotan appeared , sword in hand . |
| 5 | On their way out they found it nose down in the field . |
| 6 | On their way out they found it nose down in the field . |
| 7 | They shipped it South you see . |
| 8 | Maybe that 's why they enjoyed it Andrew ? |
| 9 | They rehearsed the scene over and over again and as they repeated it Willie believed more than ever that he was the old man . |
| 10 | The committee became so unnerved at the thought that the club premises might be under threat that when I said I knew how to deal with these bounders , but it could only be as chairman , they swallowed it hook , line and sinker . |
| 11 | Oh they loved it Dennis . |
| 12 | As the Vikings rowed their warships round the north of Scotland , past Cape Wrath , their ‘ turning point ’ , down the ragged west coast of their ‘ South Land ’ , they saw Suilven as a single , dramatic pillar ; and they named it Sul Val , the pillar mountain . |
| 13 | They called it Framheim . |
| 14 | I said to her , I said : ‘ In my time they called it idleness , ’ I said , ‘ if it was n't stupidity . ’ |
| 15 | Spitsbergen was first mentioned in the old Icelandic annals of the year 1194 , and was said to lie ‘ four days sailing from Langanes , at the northern end of the sea ’ They called it Svalbard , the ‘ cold coast ’ . |
| 16 | It became mingled with the tales of a folk who lived in the east of your world ; they called it Adam 's Paradise . ’ |
| 17 | Little wonder then that when the students launched a magazine to spread information between their disparate groups , they called it Kavane , meaning Cafe . |
| 18 | They called it All-Heal and laid it upon their altars as an emblem of the advent of the Messiah . |
| 19 | They called it Windscale , after the power station . |
| 20 | There was a fire at Mr 's store and they called it arson . |
| 21 | They called it God , understood it in terms of Christian theology and used the terms " meditative " , and " contemplative " rather than " mystical " to talk about their experience . |
| 22 | Called it narro and that 's reason they called it Narrowmarsh . |
| 23 | They thought it time to take action on their own account . |
| 24 | When they reached it Sarah counted four children playing near the turf-sided lock , and fears for Angel 's safety immediately sprang to mind . |
| 25 | You do n't we were u we had to use the immersion did n't we cos w we moved in in the June and Lofty and Brian said well do n't have it done cos you 're not gon na use until August so we they did it August time for us so but we did n't use Servowarm cos it had blown up , they just disconnected it for us , so we used the ho the immersion heater |
| 26 | They gave it logic |
| 27 | They gave it a thousand letters they gave it money |
| 28 | But they did have a very clear idea of how they wanted the house to look and resigned themselves to living with the mess while they tackled it room by room . |