Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] it [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if they do , they tend to cordon it off from other feminist issues . |
| 2 | Their houses , the tall , crumbling tenements with their cracked roof tiles and their creaking balconies huddle together round the church as if they want to shoulder it out of the way . |
| 3 | Whether to you know sort of try and pick up the guys who are getting thrown out of Heathrow and make a long-term go of it or whether in the long term , em , they want to flog it off for gravel and you know mining it for gravel and sending it for houses and you know , that sort of thing . |
| 4 | They tried pushing it back into the hole but the force of the water was too great . |
| 5 | What did they do built it out of concrete or sand ? |
| 6 | And , they 'd handed it over to us and then obviously they wanted it back , but then |
| 7 | They 'd cleaned it up since then and taken the soot out . |
| 8 | Then on , they 'd got it on from time to happy time , eaten together every week , seen movies , theatre , films , drag , done disco , reggae , boogie … |
| 9 | Internal finishing is laudably neat and clean , all sanded smooth and completely glue-free , and I only wish they 'd finished it off by putting the label on straight ! |
| 10 | What I was wondering was when you said that the dock stopped the money for payment for damages , they 'd paid it back to you . |
| 11 | They were all built round and round and up until they came to what they called the the e the part of the stack where they begin to make it up to the top , you see ? |
| 12 | It was not scheduled until later that night , but since the ATO team are there they decide to get it out of the way . |
| 13 | The H B F figure for Greater York was twelve thousand three hundred , the Barton Willmore figure was twelve thousand seven hundred , but they did break it down on a district basis , and they gave five six five o to Ryedale , and then Michael Courcier , represented by Mr Sedgewick , a much more modest figure of ten thousand six hundred , for Greater York . |
| 14 | Well he mixed with all the stars and of course , I suppose part of the underworld , but er they reckon that he did n't kill himself , I mean they did bring it in as suicide but er they reckon that you know , there 's people think he was murdered . |
| 15 | I bet they do put it out in the |
| 16 | They preferred to sit it out on the Fosse Way . |
| 17 | You 're hopeless at keeping a secret for you make it so obvious that people are sure to keep probing until they 've winkled it out of you . |
| 18 | well you know , John Smith laid out his budget for the next , study for the , to cover the next two years and there , I mean there 's no intention to , to change it in the foreseeable future , I mean they 've laid it out for two years so that the basic rate stays the same , that the personal allowances are being increased so that this will take a lot of lower paid people out of tax and that coupled with the child benefit will make everybody up to about twenty two thousand a year better off , and then from there they 'll be a , a , a range of people who to it wo n't make much difference |
| 19 | All over Austria , children are included in adult activities to a much greater extent than in Britain , but in the Alpine province of Vorarlberg they 've got it down to a fine art . |
| 20 | There was er she said , Blue Peter , and they should have put it in because they 've got it in for the kids . |
| 21 | So they 've knocked it off from everybody ? |
| 22 | It is , they 've give it out on the trains as you 're coming in |
| 23 | They 've put it from that wall , and they 've stuck it on to this wall . |
| 24 | They had to forward it up to the Pentagon . |
| 25 | Rufus had called her a waif and Adam had immediately ridiculed this word , said it was a romantic novelist 's word , so they had looked it up in Hilbert 's Shorter Oxford Dictionary and found illuminating things . |
| 26 | It had been they had put it out to the what they call peat moss . |
| 27 | Three men were needed to do the actual fitting of the tyre : two holding the tyre after they had taken it out of the oven , and one with a bucket of water to pour on to the felloes to stop them from taking fire as the tyre was clamped on . |
| 28 | They had talked it over in the Rose . |
| 29 | But North had at least a half-promise of another honour : Adolfo Calero revealed that the contras had plans to put up a statue of him in Managua , just as soon as they had won it back from the Sandinistas . |
| 30 | Perhaps , he thought , they hoped to link it up to a Euphrates Valley railway , which would make Baghdad a Russian southern capital . |