Example sentences of "they [vb past] it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after extracting the bone from the stream they cured it in jading substances . |
| 2 | And this er oh dear what was the name of it , they had a special title for the man that sort of ran the stall as they called it for getting the coal out and he he chose who he wanted to go to work . |
| 3 | They solved it by getting you to leave the bottom half of the Spectrum case attached to the PCB , hardly the neatest of ways around the problem . |
| 4 | They took it for granted that this was Ramsey . |
| 5 | They took it for granted that the international world was one of competing powers and that their duty was to make the most of whatever assets were available to them . |
| 6 | Without such a stimulus , Libyans lived comfortably enough with Truth ; that is to say , they took it for granted , and ignored it . |
| 7 | Until recently , they took it for granted that their supplies from domestic sources could be obtained on credit and that , when these bills matured , any shortage of funds would be made good by the banks . |
| 8 | This year , as well as his old regulars , the Hoflins , Busacher , and old Anton , the répétiteur from Vienna , he had invited his friends on the theatre committee who had assisted so nobly in quelling the Gesner revolt , and Luiza , Freddi and Alfred , who came nearly every year but not so often they took it for granted . |
| 9 | They had won , as they will always have to , against the odds , but they did it by capitalising on their best players , by utilising every ounce of available experience and by trying as hard as they knew how . |
| 10 | ONE group of men turned the tide of the Gulf War against Saddam Hussein — and they did it by tying up thousands of Iraqi soldiers in a deadly , sophisticated and top secret game of cat and mouse in the desert . |
| 11 | It 's a very special house for Kaye and Max because they bought it after spending 10 years abroad . |