Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They just left it lying . |
| 2 | They said they just wanted it to stop |
| 3 | They just flattened it did n't they and and . |
| 4 | They just , they just did it to raise some funds , I ca n't remember why they did it . |
| 5 | For the last six days they had clung to hope , but they finally felt it pulling away from them — the miracle they wanted just did not happen . |
| 6 | As it grew gradually nearer , and larger , they soon found it towering over them — a mighty steel fortress . |
| 7 | So the funeral went on and the person was lowered into the grave that had been dug and the grave digger was asked to stay behind and they quickly got it put where it should be . |
| 8 | Not for a moment would I suggest that they deliberately passed it knowing it might embarrass him . |
| 9 | They also expected it to show a particular type of magnetic behaviour called paramagnetism because of its isolated electrons — and again , it does . |
| 10 | They then had it driven to Kent , where it was buried in a field behind Richens ' parents ' house in the village of Ightham . |
| 11 | They never used it to mean an earthly kingdom in the sense of an area of land which was ruled by God . |