Example sentences of "they [vb base] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sometimes argued that even if the sentences analysed in linguistics are abstractions , which sometimes sound very odd , they are still the best material for language study , because they isolate it from its context . |
| 2 | If very dirty they lay it in the stream , securing it with a large stone , and let the water flow through it for some time , after which they proceed as before … the linen is spread upon the rocks in the river , or the walls near at hand , and secured , like everything else by a stone at each corner … |
| 3 | They bring it with them memories , attitudes and relationships . ’ |
| 4 | Also , more is understood nowadays about the balance of life within a pool , so the much quoted passage of the father of English gardening , William Robinson , in his classic The English Flower Garden ( 1895 ) scarcely applies now : ‘ Unclean and ugly pools deface our gardens ; some have a mania for artificial water , the effect of water pleasing them so well that they bring it near their houses where they can not have its good effects . |
| 5 | Cos they sell it at Cleethorpes market with little pot pou pure , yeah them . |
| 6 | Yeah , they buy gas at eighteen P and they sell it for forty three P . |
| 7 | They do n't , once they 're empty they do n't take long till they sell it over there and there |
| 8 | Only at the Opéra do they beat time without obeying it ; everywhere else in Europe they obey it without beating it . |
| 9 | It is not true that elsewhere they obey it without beating it , since one beats time wherever choruses are sung . |
| 10 | The other children all try to catch it and , when one of them does , they hide it behind their back . |
| 11 | ‘ They eat it with oil and pasta , ’ said Mr Lewis . |
| 12 | Since some people regard them as the ultimate madness and evil they deem it to be their moral right to break laws , mostly in a non-violent manner , as a form of protest . |
| 13 | As a result they push it beyond its design — a bit like trying to fly a plane at twice the speed and height that it was designed for . |
| 14 | The reasons they push it on you is that young people particularly do activities that are liable to get infection . |
| 15 | But we used to turn it over , not like they push it in front , new stuff in front of old , we never had that , we never did that . |
| 16 | A common result of this is that when the philosophers deny autonomy to women , they do so for the same sorts of reason that they deny it to children and cite lack of rationality , capriciousness and vulnerability among their characteristics . |
| 17 | Now , the recent boom in advanced home computer games has meant that fool boys like me do n't sit at home flicking the channels for blood , guts and gore : they recreate it by playing silly silicon war games . |
| 18 | Well is quite nice in the Gaelic but er when they change it into English they |
| 19 | Like there is today , I mean things are altered when you get a ship now , when you get the dredger what was in the East Anglia Daily Times er yesterday , where a ship open in half , so th they load it with a grab and that go to sea and ship open in half , drop it down so there 's no doors . |
| 20 | The second one the second man says I want a year 's , I want ten years ' supply of whisky , right , so they sling it in there . |
| 21 | But you can see why if you 're selling inappropriately , if you sell someone for example , a savings plan , and they cash it in the first four years , and they do n't even get what they paid in it , how they 're going to be very annoyed , because from what they could see , they were getting a savings plan . |
| 22 | Now that is a large part of our culture , which in a sense gets sucked into the educational establishment and sucked into teaching relationships , and because it 's such a consistent part of the way in which women are seen , I think they perceive it as a greater problem . |
| 23 | They make it for you , ’ he said with the same lack of expression . |
| 24 | Built into a doorway , they make it into a gateway — an impressive entrance , leading into the space beyond . |
| 25 | ‘ Though they make it in bags here , elephant tea they call it , is n't that funny ? ’ |
| 26 | They make it in lots of places . |
| 27 | Sixty six she was , so in we go , and it 's got open to the general public , so this man said to her something about I ca n't serve you I 've had a robbery , she said I do n't know why they advertise it on the window if he 's , if he 's not prepared to serve me and when I looked round there was all the taken over , they had a burglary . |
| 28 | Additions such as these certainly enrich the idea of the longue durée ; but at the same time they complicate it by broadening the notion of constraint on which it depends and obscuring its relationship with conjonctures . |
| 29 | ‘ Lots of women who have fine hair hanker after long , thick hair , so they grow it in the mistaken belief that the longer it gets , the more hair they have and the fuller it will look , ’ explained Charles . |
| 30 | They solve it by using some of their numbers as jars . |