Example sentences of "they [vb past] it [prep] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Think of that story getting passed down the generations , each time they handed it on it became more colourful and exaggerated . |
| 2 | Launching a sugar plantation took a great deal of capital and the planters were always short of money ; many of them had bought estates at the high land prices of the boom , and most of them felt they owed it to themselves to live in a gentlemanly way that ignored debts . |
| 3 | In those early years the horrors of travel merely reminded him what a long , long way Anna was from her own country , and he used to say that they owed it to her to make up for it . |
| 4 | Great big when they you know when they brought it in you know , a great big thing you know and we said , What 's this about ? |
| 5 | Fagg and company were upset about Blenkinsop going , but since they trusted him utterly they left it to him to choose someone just like himself . |