Example sentences of "they [vb past] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is a coincidence that they announced it on the eve of my press conference , ’ he admitted . |
| 2 | This often seemed to be taken to excess and getting drunk or ‘ blind drunk ’ was described as common practice , at least within their world as they revealed it to us . |
| 3 | It spread to the Chinese around 2 , years ago and then reached Japan where they cultivated it into the art form it is today . |
| 4 | There was a ditch the other side of it , which should present no problems provided they met it on the right stride . |
| 5 | With some , like Tony Jacklin or Susan Hampshire , it is perfectly obvious they got it through hard work in their particular calling . |
| 6 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |
| 7 | When they got it to the surface , they had seen a writhing mass of jelly , from which two fierce eyes had peered at them . |
| 8 | Somehow not unnaturally , I 'd say — they got it into their heads that you 'd be … well , I do n't want to get my nose punched here , do I ? |
| 9 | Oh well they got it during the War . |
| 10 | Gloucester needed an early score , an early lead and they got it after just 9 minutes when they won a penalty right in front of the posts . |
| 11 | They got it out the back of my hand . |
| 12 | The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour . |
| 13 | So , I mean , er it 's the proof old folks that get it , they got it in the war time , they had to starve in war time to feed their children . |
| 14 | Who had tried what , where they got it from , what it cost , and how they balance the accounts of risk and pleasure . |
| 15 | Hereford were due a break as well and sure enough , they got it against Gillingham at Edgar Street . |
| 16 | For those people who can sever their own feet and lurch away , they got it round the neck later from a special breed of Tightness that lives in the baskets of flowers up lamp posts . |
| 17 | But even saying that , if they doubled it to two hundred pounds , it 's a lot of years before we reach four thousand pounds . |
| 18 | The South Koreans are rated because they made it to the last World Cup finals , but personally I will always think of the North Koreans in ‘ 66 . |
| 19 | But they made it to the boat , which sailed in the early hours of 1 September , two days before war was declared . |
| 20 | They made it to the winning post fairly creditably . |
| 21 | They made it to the end of the road in Bombay where all the cars had to be steam cleaned inside and out for the last leg of the journey . |
| 22 | And here 's how they made it to the semi-finals ; not an easy run , Wakefield was their last step . |
| 23 | they sold it and somebody bought and er they made it into private er |
| 24 | it look just like a ski resort all the bright jackets and the woolly hats and it was lovely , I mean they made it into , into an absolute skating ring for driving on |
| 25 | Frankie 's fall reflected the way they made it in the first place , through marketing rather than live performance . |
| 26 | The Monastery of Saint James had been quite destroyed , and they passed it without halting . |
| 27 | They passed it on 19th April when it obtained the Royal Assent and became law with the short title , The Public Offices Extension Act 1859 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Pollexton dynasty had finished by 1747 , and from then on various relations spurned Mothecome until eventually they sold it at the end of the eighteenth century to a Mildmay forbear . |
| 30 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |