Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] [vb pp] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a band now irritated by most dance music — ‘ most of it 's cack , I hate going into bars where they 've got it blaring out from everywhere , you ca n't hear yourself think ’ — and uncomfortable with the accoutrements of clubbing — ‘ I ca n't stand being under strobes no more , do me head in , make me lose my balance ’ — it was inevitable the Mondays would rake up their rock roots , ‘ mature ’ their sound and make a major musical transition . |
| 2 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
| 3 | A well-established tradition holds owners to be morally entitled to their property where they have obtained it by way of an uncoerced transfer from someone who received it in a similar manner , subject to the property having been originally taken into private ownership by a legitimate process of acquisition . |
| 4 | The Quix supermarket had refused the box because they 'd ha although they 'd had it for a cert for quite a long time during the miner 's strike I think . |
| 5 | His father had wounded another bull in the same herd , but not mortally , and although they had tracked it by a faint blood trail for an hour , in the end , to the senator 's ill-concealed irritation , they had been forced to abandon the search . |
| 6 | They reached the gate in even quicker time than they 'd left it . |
| 7 | I would be very surprised if a property on at nine fifty would be dropped much below nine hundred because , obviously they have a , they have a certain that they need to get and I I 'd be surprised if they 'd go sort of much below fifty pounds less a month than they 've advertised it for . |
| 8 | I think most Prisoners would say that the sex problem worried them less than they had expected it to , but that is not to say that it did not worry most people some of the time and some people all the time . |
| 9 | A decline in activity may now come about if both accord the region less strategic value than they have given it hitherto . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It 's , what they 've done is they 've closed er er , erm branch , an office massive office in London and they 've moved them all over to Leeds because they ca n't get the people to take jobs in London so they 've transferred it all to Leeds , and erm there 's a chance of erm getting promotion , well , a very good chance of getting promotion down there . |
| 12 | When I am sitting up there working with the librarian , pupils will come trotting in with little notes from teachers saying " I have been sent in to ask for books on … " and off they will go for that lesson which is what she wanted , so they have achieved it . |
| 13 | The government put this here after ‘ Forty-six because they wanted one spot of safety in a wilderness of hatred , and because they thought they might as well get some good of this country once they 'd ruined it . |
| 14 | But I did n't realize that once they 'd said it like , you know , I just |
| 15 | He was , he said he 'd send us , once they 'd got it all sorted out he said he 'd send us a book , the book on it . |
| 16 | Dacia was not strong enough to beat off the barbarians , and not rich enough to satisfy them once they had conquered it . |
| 17 | Most of the children … had a verbal knowledge of how to select a book and how to find what they wanted in the right book once they had located it . |
| 18 | They declared that they would never again go willingly to war without clear political aims ; that when they did go to war for such aims , they would do so with overwhelming force ; and that they would discover , in advance , how they were supposed to get out of a job once they had started it . |
| 19 | it usually , it only takes a day once they 've received it , if that 's alright ? |
| 20 | and once they 've got it you see they 're not gon na take it away |
| 21 | Once they 've got it , they can do my layout and I do n't have to be there . |
| 22 | Horses soon get used to electric fencing if introduced to it sensibly ; once they have touched it with their noses and realised the outcome they will stay well clear . . |
| 23 | He then says that Caesar does n't seem to let his emotions speak more than his reason , but ( this is the next six or seven lines ) when ambitious young people are starting out , at the bottom of the heap , they are humble and look up with awe , but once they have made it to the top , they scorn all those below them , who have helped them to get there . |
| 24 | This defines the area and clearly specifies what they are going to do with the information once they have found it . |
| 25 | The fourth stage of the process concerns what they do with the information once they have found it . |
| 26 | ‘ People do n't often change their buildings and contents cover once they have got it it tends to be something they pay and forget about . ’ |
| 27 | I do n't know if they 've done it ! |
| 28 | Looks as if they 've cleared it all up , he 's looking all around . |
| 29 | I wonder if they 've let it get out of print ? |
| 30 | And if they 've got it , I 'll nick it . |