Example sentences of "they [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gathered , however , that they expected it to continue to get worse and that there was nothing they could do except give me vitamins . |
| 2 | However , having made an investment they expected it to pay its way and any development towards being a full-time farmer would depend very much on market prices . |
| 3 | They had surrounded him with horror and stupidity , with all the paraphernalia of this so-called human excess , and they expected it to bring him down , to reduce him still further from the once proud state he had fallen from , but they would not succeed . |
| 4 | It took time , it took time , it took a period of years till they got it finalized but when we got it finalized , we had for example er welding areas , in which no one was allowed in unless they were a welder you know . |
| 5 | But I think it was built maybe in er in the er nineteen eighty or early eight maybe nineteen ninety five or thereabout but it took a while while they got it erected . |
| 6 | And they got it done at the Registry , very quiet . |
| 7 | The number of people who have died on our streets is equivalent to a hundred thousand people dying in the streets of Britain , if that were happening , then the House of Commons would be packed to the doors everyday , until they got it sorted out . |
| 8 | It was like a rubbish dump , and yet there 's good old erm , grounds man , as soon as the had gone , they were down there , there was half a dozen of them and they got it cleaned in two days . |
| 9 | They called him Toby in the boarding annexe , ‘ sir ’ in the school , except when they got it mixed up . |
| 10 | Later that evening when they were seated comfortably in the bar Mary brought up the subject of the eerie feeling in the cutting ; they agreed it had been a most disturbing experience and that there must be some explanation . |
| 11 | Instead , they manipulated it to legitimize their own rule . |
| 12 | But they made it grow , did n't they ? |
| 13 | Yesterday they chalked up their third win of the season … they made it look easy , the score thirty points to two … already the Oxfordshire American footballers are on target for making the National League playoffs . |
| 14 | ‘ They made it sound so wonderful … ’ |
| 15 | Barnsley always looked threatening on the aerial front and they made it count when Brendan O'Connell arrived at the back post to bury a Wayne Biggins cross with a power header . |
| 16 | Saucy gits , they 'ad it coming , I say . |
| 17 | They stopped it see , so I did n't gain anything out of it , me mates at work they made a collection for me in their way . |
| 18 | If the returns fell it increased labour output ; if they rose it felt no need to do so and opted instead for increased leisure . |
| 19 | It went to the flowers they crumpled it came weeping back |
| 20 | Whenever the film crew opened a cupboard in a shop to store some electrical equipment , they found it stocked high with food . |
| 21 | Unfortunately they were again delayed by rough terrain , and when they got to the road they found it choked with German armour heading for the front . |
| 22 | They found it had not been modified in any way and could not operate on the 27–28 MHz frequency ( the FM Citizens ' Band ) . |
| 23 | When they had left the cinema , they found it had been raining so Yanto decided the standing position would be favourite . |
| 24 | British brewers do not have to declare the ingredients they use but when American consumers ran a check of Miller Lite they found it contained corn syrup , propylene glycol alginate , papain enzymes and potassium metabisulphite . |
| 25 | They all heard clearly what he said , difficult though they found it to believe . |
| 26 | The committee 's proposed remedies for the defects of the law as they found it appear clearly from the foregoing paragraphs . |
| 27 | The patients were asked how easy they found it to maintain good control . |
| 28 | I had a what 's it today , from , something about the over fifties you see , so , cos they found it cost , it cost , it costs eight pounds a year to join you see , you know , you know , eh , pay on , so I 've joined it , I want to see what they 've got to say you know , you get , we get a lot of things you know |
| 29 | They used it to buy a truck , which earned more money , which they used in turn to create a new farm , with further grants from the government . |
| 30 | Yeah they they used it to get away . |