Example sentences of "they [vb past] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To babies had this dried milk and some of them got it cheap and I suppose there was no work and then they were poor were n't they . |
| 2 | The plan for the evacuation to be in groups of three had to be abandoned , as it would have taken 40 hours to get all of the men out and the gas collecting near them made it imperative that the exercise be completed in much less time . |
| 3 | Many of them found it easier to move on to the North American mainland after their indentures had expired . |
| 4 | Both of them found it difficult to express their feelings on the war , except in the third person , so strong were their views . |
| 5 | but I think they got it first . |
| 6 | My bag , my writing , my camera , films — they got it all ! ’ |
| 7 | When they got it all home , the honeycombs were cut and drained through cloth into jars . |
| 8 | She spoke of tears at times until they got it right but accepted the suffering as he had no favourites and called them all his ‘ dolly girls ’ . |
| 9 | My guess is that , with a few exceptions , it wo n't but that in four years we 'll have another Mogg-Davidson book claiming that they got it right all along . |
| 10 | If they did not know the word less , their responses followed a pattern of chance responding ; if they did know it , they got it right nearly all the time . |
| 11 | ‘ They got it right , ’ he said to me , alluding to that household with its charming and honest children . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , ’ he repeated to himself gravely , ‘ they got it right . ’ |
| 13 | Dai knew only too well that the company mentality was to persevere until they got it right . |
| 14 | On this particular the Government have got it right , and I am proud that they got it right . |
| 15 | What they could n't read about , they guessed , and very often they got it wrong . |
| 16 | Shake-up in English as Government admit they got it wrong |
| 17 | Cos they got it wrong . |
| 18 | No , I think it 's just I think they plan well according er to John yesterday they planned it this way . |
| 19 | They planned it this way ? |
| 20 | ‘ They made it official just a couple of days ago . ’ |
| 21 | I know , but it 's too dear , I looked at that and thought it would be nice to have your name on a brick , but to me twenty pound , if they made it cheaper more people would buy it would n't they ? , what building is it ? |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | Rovers were bubbling and they made it two on 15 minutes . |
| 25 | They made it respectable to talk about it by linking grants with the proper adoption of equal opportunity policies . |
| 26 | they made it useful again . |
| 27 | Your mind became numbed to everything about human beings except that they pressed close around you all the time , that they slept above or below you , that you could never turn your head without seeing some evidence of their closeness — their clothes or their books or their photographs — that they made it impossible for you ever to be alone . |
| 28 | They made it impossible for me to stay . |
| 29 | They made it worse ’ |
| 30 | In go the Pyramids , Atlantis , the Holy Grail , the Knights Templar , the Freemasons , Napoleon , the Paris Metro map , Hitler , Ayers Rock and , unfortunately , much more besides ; out comes a dread secret to do with control of the ‘ telluric currents ’ which cause earthquakes or continental drift or something ; not that it much matters , since they made it all up . |