Example sentences of "they [vb past] it the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Goncourt brothers noted in their Journal in the 1860s that the new Paris resembled ‘ some future American Babylon ’ , they were nearer to the truth than they knew , though they got it the wrong way round , for it was in many of the cities of the United States that French influence was predominant . |
| 2 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 3 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 4 | When they heard it the sepoys threw back their heads and uttered a howl so piercing , so harrowing that every window in the Residency must have dissolved if they had not been already broken . |
| 5 | That was the reason they named it the Deathbed Room . |
| 6 | They called it The Shrine — even then secular sanctity was in vogue ! |
| 7 | My husband and the boys cleared a path through the undergrowth when we first came here , and they called it the Burma Road . ’ |
| 8 | Well I 'd one come from Malta to England again , in nineteen sixteen and went on an old boat , they called it the Gurkha . |
| 9 | That were the same kind o' place : they called it the Six Mile House . |
| 10 | ‘ They called it the Blitz . ’ |
| 11 | Clatting the neeps and in Aberdeen they called them yowing And y We had your clatt as the yow they called it the hoe , the yow They cleared the Did that to the drill . |
| 12 | Twenty-five years later , when Thérèse and Léonie at last began to talk to each other about that time , they called it the odd summer . |
| 13 | You see and they called it the , the church of Saint Constantine , and it shifted from here and they built one down at the and then they shifted from the to the present site in about seventeen forty . |
| 14 | And they called it the number one . |
| 15 | Years ago they had all these narrow looms , about this size , and this is where women worked , they called it the narrow section , and maybe mostly for hotels or you know , in the olden days they had stair , your mother 'll probably , stair runners or holes and the , the carpet just went like that and there 'd be a piece of lino up the side , |
| 16 | They called it the deal of the decade . |
| 17 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 18 | They called it the drill hall then it 's now the community centre but it 's the drill hall . |
| 19 | They called it the old comedians |
| 20 | They land in a field among crop circles ( they bought crop circle footage off National Geographic , and when they watched it the only car you could see in it was — synchronicity ! — a red station wagon … ) and then pick up a hitch-hiking alien . |
| 21 | The elements of the curriculum considered essential by LEAs were varied and some were reluctant to make any statement on this because they felt it the job of schools . |
| 22 | The Waste lay on a high part of the forest so that when they reached it the sun , which had already sunk from sight in the valleys , was still poised above the dark low edge of the distant forest . |
| 23 | Farnham reached their second cup final of the season — and they did it the hard way when they met Cranleigh in the semi-finals of the Class Elite Cup at the Memorial Ground on Saturday . |
| 24 | Scientists did not help matters when they gave it the generic name Oreamnos , meaning ‘ mountain lamb ’ . |
| 25 | When Europeans saw the animal alive for the first time , they christened it the mountain goat because of its unusual agility on narrow , icy ledges . |
| 26 | And do you believe it , they wanted it the next day . |