Example sentences of "they [verb] it [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , they agreed it was in everyone 's interest to carry on working , and the show was not threatened . |
| 2 | Many French politicians take for granted a Europe in which France shares a lead ; they sense it is at risk . |
| 3 | They say it 's in the wrong place . |
| 4 | The Cherry and Whites are used to winning against Nottingham … last time they played it was for league points in the first division … |
| 5 | The first time they came it was for ‘ Bob-a-job ’ week , but now they just come . |
| 6 | At first , customers kept their mouths shut not just because they signed nondisclosure agreements , but because they figured it was in their interest to do so . |
| 7 | And now the FA must decide whether they feel it is in everyone 's best interests if they throw Taylor overboard into Boston harbour , just like the Yanks did 200 years ago to another unwanted English export . |
| 8 | I 'm not saying you will always be successful or that it will never cost you a penny , nor am I advising those almost too timid to open a can of beans to tinker with a complex and potentially dangerous machine if they feel it 's beyond them ; we all have our limitations . |
| 9 | They mean an easy , phonetic ( or rather phonemic ) system such as alphabetic literacy and they think of a ‘ literate society ’ as one in which such a script is widely assumed in public life , as they claim it was in sixth century Greece . |
| 10 | But I just said that it was for the Welsh Office cos I thought if er they knew it was for a Authority you know ? |
| 11 | They thought it was for real , and panicked . |
| 12 | Perhaps they thought it was for unwanted babies ; she did start to explain about the new home for blind children , but never had to finish . |
| 13 | When Pamela 's parents were interviewed they spent a lot of time emphasizing how necessary they thought it was to discipline Pamela . |
| 14 | Well erm erm had a word with erm who was about oh fourth in line in the erm education hierarchy in those days and erm then spoke to who was the Chief Education Officer and er , I think they were a bit erm , bit apprehensive about employing a blind typist because erm it was something that they had never had any experience of but in the end they thought it was worth a try and er especially after supporting me at the College and erm also perhaps they had in mind that many of the erm employees would be leaving if war broke out and erm , in fact by that time war had probably started |
| 15 | They thought it was worth around £100,000 , until a valuation for council tax arrived putting in the highest band — band H — for properties worth more than £320,000 . |
| 16 | The working classes rarely travelled far , and if they did it was on foot or , in the later years of the century , by tram , ‘ the gondola of the working classes ’ . |
| 17 | The training officer group were more likely to refer to joint or group decisions , none of them specifically mentioned the need for central approval , few mentioned relevancy to post as being essential ( or if they did it was within a wider framework of reference than relevance to post alone ) , and they were more likely to specify that the needs of the service and the needs of the individual were both taken into account . |
| 18 | They seldom dated their letters and when they did it was by the year of the king 's reign . |
| 19 | I 've just been at a two day conference at erm not very far from here , at Wisden House in which erm a number of erm top industrialists erm led by the former chairman of I C I have all unanimously been saying how bad they think it is for our future technological development and export development if overseas students get out of the habit of coming here . |
| 20 | Northampton you see and they think it 's up the north . |
| 21 | When they laugh it 's with sheer joy . |
| 22 | ‘ They said it was for the best , ’ said Gloria . |
| 23 | ‘ They said it was for lack of printing plates , ’ said Mohammed Salekh , the party leader , who has to submit articles to the authorities for approval . |
| 24 | They said it was for her own protection and they felt she might not surrender to the court . |
| 25 | They asked me to set up a buffet for a press launch , then they said it was for me ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ They said it was like Dante 's Inferno . |
| 27 | They said it was like a box you know , and they could up to tremendous heights , putting I do n't know how many layers . |
| 28 | they have it was on one night . |
| 29 | The state 's increasing insistence , for example , that what people study and how they study it are of government concern and to be directed at ends which a government finds acceptable is part of the character of our critical environment . |
| 30 | Did they say it 's worth buying it . |