Example sentences of "they [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well ca n't they paint it straight on in the mi , on the ceiling ? |
| 2 | With them , they coordinate it themselves . |
| 3 | They live with a constant dread of the telephone ringing because they fear it will bring bad news . |
| 4 | But the Scottish Development Agency says manufacturers are reluctant to enter this activity because they fear it will be too complex for them to manage . |
| 5 | Young women may be reluctant to join long-established organizations which are patronized chiefly by older women , because they fear it will somehow drown their own up-to-date and dynamic image . |
| 6 | They have n't started packing their suitcases yet , but they fear it may be inevitable and they 'll have to come to terms with a completely new existence . |
| 7 | And they fear it could mean the end of traditional pubs . |
| 8 | It is sometimes argued that even if the sentences analysed in linguistics are abstractions , which sometimes sound very odd , they are still the best material for language study , because they isolate it from its context . |
| 9 | Had they heard it ? the horse-hoofs ringing clear-Tlot-tlot , tlot-tlot , in the distance ? |
| 10 | Had they heard it ? |
| 11 | Had they trebled it they would have been nearer the truth . |
| 12 | They announced it just a couple of weeks ago . |
| 13 | ‘ It is a coincidence that they announced it on the eve of my press conference , ’ he admitted . |
| 14 | No they announced it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Well why have they stopped it now ? |
| 17 | They owned it consecutively until , in 1598 , Winterthur took it over . |
| 18 | If very dirty they lay it in the stream , securing it with a large stone , and let the water flow through it for some time , after which they proceed as before … the linen is spread upon the rocks in the river , or the walls near at hand , and secured , like everything else by a stone at each corner … |
| 19 | It spread to the Chinese around 2 , years ago and then reached Japan where they cultivated it into the art form it is today . |
| 20 | They hopped it . |
| 21 | There was a ditch the other side of it , which should present no problems provided they met it on the right stride . |
| 22 | Yet they concede it would also be more complex and bureaucratic , and not really a runner until general taxation is more widely perceived as unable to deliver adequate funding . |
| 23 | However , having made an investment they expected it to pay its way and any development towards being a full-time farmer would depend very much on market prices . |
| 24 | Whether or not they expected it when they were first elected , nearly all of them will have learned to accept ant to derive fulfilment from the ‘ welfare ’ function . |
| 25 | I gathered , however , that they expected it to continue to get worse and that there was nothing they could do except give me vitamins . |
| 26 | They had surrounded him with horror and stupidity , with all the paraphernalia of this so-called human excess , and they expected it to bring him down , to reduce him still further from the once proud state he had fallen from , but they would not succeed . |
| 27 | But Jews know a good thing when they taste it and alighted on the herring because it was inexpensive , piquant , nutritious and versatile . |
| 28 | They wanted blood and they got it . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |