Example sentences of "they [vb past] it in the " in BNC.

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1 The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour .
2 So , I mean , er it 's the proof old folks that get it , they got it in the war time , they had to starve in war time to feed their children .
3 Frankie 's fall reflected the way they made it in the first place , through marketing rather than live performance .
4 They stopped it in the end did n't they ?
5 They found it in the simultaneous detonation of 454,000kg/ 1m lb of explosives in deep tunnels under the German front line .
6 Gill and Jackson go on to identify eight ‘ black and mixed race couples ’ , seven ‘ mixed race ’ children and three black children , and use this sample to demonstrate that racial identity confusion , as they found it in the transracially placed children , could also be found in black children in black families and ‘ mixed race ’ children in ‘ mixed race ’ families : ‘ They provide an interesting comparison … because … same race placements are increasingly regarded as the ideal by social workers … and it is in the black and mixed race couples that ( it is said ) the child will come to develop a strong racial identity ’ ( p. 129 ) .
7 Dinner was exquisite , even though they ate it in the somewhat strained silence of two people who had discovered they had absolutely nothing to say to each other .
8 They paid it in the day before .
9 Of course the police did n't know what it was : they threw it in the pig-bin .
10 And he 'd got a strip of steel about four inches the half inch and he stuck at the back of his , i it was a long seat that were a four of us sat on with iron legs and they stuck it in the wood and you 'd flip it and it i , you know how it would sto
11 There entered her mind a memory of the feast day of the Madonna della Bruna ; it fell in July in the time of the fierce lion sun , as they called it in the hills , and yet the shrine attracted crowds from all Ninfania and all around .
12 Suppose this chap was Alexandra 's special friend , her Significant Other , as they called it in the States , would n't he get a bit peeved if some strange man appeared at the door asking for her ?
13 They conceived it in the form of a puma and its heart was the ceremonial site which was now the Plaza de Armas .
14 It was fully half an hour before the farmer and the farmhands beat out all the flames , but they managed it in the end .
15 They did , they did it in the evening but they 're not in the , did n't do it the morning .
16 I do n't know how they did it in the end , but
17 They left it in the shop . ’
18 If they left it in the hands of it would be a much better song .
19 They carried it in the late-morning edition .
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