Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] [verb] it " in BNC.

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1 It is what they want to learn and at the speed they want to learn it .
2 ‘ Any artist thinking they have made it when they sign a recording contract is totally wrong , ’ warns Gatfield .
3 they took all the goodness out of it and then by law they have to put it back again do n't they , to er
4 No wonder they choose to attack it .
5 The teenagers claimed that the police had found a footprint on the embankment near where James 's body was found , that police had taken trainers from the boy they said did it .
6 When I phoned Kagan he told me that he had instructed his trustees in Israel to make the payment , but by some terrible misunderstanding they had paid it into the wrong charity . ’
7 Only unlike nature they 'd got it wrong .
8 I mean at the moment they 've got it short , but they have it long here and long at the back and then everywhere else short , short back and sides
9 The student 's friends said he was ‘ wacky ’ and ‘ into violence ’ , but until his murderous frenzy they had believed it to be entirely in his mind .
10 Judith Hurwitz , now head of the Hurwitz Consulting Group , says the whole tone of SCO Forum was different this year and obviously indicates they are jockeying to go public — even though they 'll need a couple more quarters at least to get the kind of track record they need to do it .
11 You see with maternity they have to do it anyway .
12 he put his business , he , he hired the , a unit , bought a unit and put the business in the unit somewhere er away from the house and they bought a house for one hundred and eighty thousand and she says and I 've got a lot of money in the bank now , so , she says I do n't have to work , but the business they want to sell it , and nobody 's buying
13 She carted all the junior nursing staff off during the afternoon for a training session in one of the treatment-rooms , and by the end of a vigorous drilling they seemed to have it firmly implanted .
14 Ever since the beginning they tried to stop it getting onto the market .
15 But instead of filtering food from huge quantities of water they have to extract it from a mass of indigestible vegetable matter .
16 She takes a sip of mineral water before launching into James Woods and his girlfriend , Sarah Owen : ‘ I 've a theory that James and his girlfriend had so many problems they had to turn it all on me . ’
17 The residents and traders do not seem overly worried about indiscriminate parking they seem to regard it as an advantage which the town has over others .
18 Most of all they were marvellously responsive to any sign of talent or ability and were wonderfully generous in the pains they took to foster it
19 But viewers may get the feeling they 've seen it all before .
20 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 .
21 Talk about the kinds of bread each likes — ways they like to eat it .
22 The 79 works on display offer an insight into the national psychology ; its effects on artists and the techniques they employed to represent it are placed under the spotlight .
23 and er that may sound er a bit exaggerated but I can assure you that 's what happened , that er , to go to , to be able to file these , these little scraps of paper they had to stick it on another sheet
24 According to them , crack is widely available in Birmingham and most prostitutes they know use it daily .
25 And when the snow thawed and took with it the paint they had daubed it with , he was out there picking off the remaining flakes of paint , and cursing with disappointment .
26 The police has simply forgotten to tell the owner they had found it .
27 She spends the next ten years taking in washing , slaving away to pay back the money they borrowed to replace it .
28 Later , Hazel had said that there was nothing for it but to cross the open pasture and under Silver 's direction they had crossed it , with Dandelion running ahead to reconnoitre .
29 If anyone wants specific spiritual direction they seek to give it .
30 King Francis became so rotten that when they took his corpse to St Denis they had to put it in a lead coffin .
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