Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
| 2 | ( We only asked them to comment here if it did not meet expectations — either they all had low expectations or the conference was a high standard . ) |
| 3 | That 's what I used to do with Marie — look for food they chucked away cos it was bashed up and that . |
| 4 | Strangely they came easily because it was all so right . |
| 5 | Taking the radical students ' ideals at face-value one might have expected them to see this incident as yet another example of oppression by a fascist regime and protest against it — after all , they protested enough when it used such methods against its own people . |
| 6 | They kissed lightly when it was time to say goodbye . |
| 7 | Today they were going to replaster the house : not just the floor , which they did regularly when it became cracked and dusty , or on special occasions , such as when the house had been polluted by childbirth or death . |
| 8 | Ah I bet they do though if it 's the same people that 's operating , they 're going round murdering people |
| 9 | Except that the first time round the Indians saw that Firmin survived and they ran away because they were afraid , and the second time round they saw they 'd killed Antonio , which was quite the wrong result for them so they ran away because it had all gone wrong . |