Example sentences of "they [verb] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Goncourt brothers noted in their Journal in the 1860s that the new Paris resembled ‘ some future American Babylon ’ , they were nearer to the truth than they knew , though they got it the wrong way round , for it was in many of the cities of the United States that French influence was predominant . |
| 2 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 3 | They made it a rule never to pay , never to bribe , never to threaten to prosecute except in the case of dealers who could sell a young orang for several hundred pounds on the black market . |
| 4 | They made it a rule that she was never to be alone . |
| 5 | Accordingly when a pare of men went underground formerly , they made it a rule , to sleep out a candle , before they set about their work ; that is if their place of work was dry , they would lay themselves down and sleep , as long as a whole candle would continue burning ; and then rise up and work for two or three hours pretty briskly ; after that have a touch pipe , that is rest themselves for half an hour to smoke a pipe of tobacco , and so play and sleep away half their working time : but mining being more expensive than it formerly was , those idle customs are superseded by more labour and industry . |
| 6 | There is a history of heart disease in her family so Doc D gets her cholesterol checked every now and then and they make it a policy not to keep cheese in the house . |
| 7 | And the other thing about visual things , let's , let's say there is a reference to somebody having piles , but they make it a visual gag |
| 8 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 9 | Harrington and Lewis both said they found it a pleasant change from their usual routine . |
| 10 | And although Whigs under Anne liked to claim that James had been deposed for breaking his original contract with the people , they found it a credible way of embarrassing their political opponents to argue that it was the Tories who had been responsible for James 's downfall . |
| 11 | The timbers are badly shaped and put together ; such a structure can only be a vehicle for plants and the sooner they cover it the better . |
| 12 | Well that 's what I said why did n't they surround it a mile away . |
| 13 | Yeah , it 's pretty good but erm the older ones think they run it a bit ! |
| 14 | And his collaborator Donovan Wylie 's superb photographs do n't merely illustrate or complement his text ; they give it a further dynamic depth and dimension . |
| 15 | They give it a . |
| 16 | So we can now advise people that if they take a bird in that 's been injured by a cat , they give it a shot of antibiotics — great , cures the septicaemia . |
| 17 | JUNE 9 : Two months AFTER the deal has been completed , BRDC 's financial advisers , Rawlinson and Hunter , report they consider it a ‘ high risk ’ investment . |
| 18 | JAMES : Ian says that when Dorky Caswell and Sexy Phil ( ? ) reviewed R3 they awarded it an overall mark of 92% . |
| 19 | When they heard it the sepoys threw back their heads and uttered a howl so piercing , so harrowing that every window in the Residency must have dissolved if they had not been already broken . |
| 20 | They rebuilt it every year out of slats of wood and branches , with sheets of birch-bark for a roof . |
| 21 | They get it every time . |
| 22 | This Meeting know they have no title to impose a Tax upon the Community at large towards this purpose , but they feel it an indispensible duty to express how desirable it would be for the use and service of the inhabitabts of Islay . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , they overdid it a bit . |
| 24 | That was the reason they named it the Deathbed Room . |
| 25 | EPC 's expertise brings significant benefits to its members in the water and process industries , and the club 's continuing expansion indicates that they find it a cost-effective extension of in-house resources , as well as a focal point for keeping abreast of developments in the field of effluent treatment . |
| 26 | Why did they take it a stage further with him ? |
| 27 | In the old Tarzan movies they used drums , and they also used natives and the warriors carried a stick , they called it a forked stick and it looks like the assembly might need a new set of forked sticks |
| 28 | And erm that 's when you er when you had your a a a new new rig out as they called it in those days , they called it a rig out , new rig out in those days . |
| 29 | THEY called it a tax on knowledge and they were right . |
| 30 | They called it The Shrine — even then secular sanctity was in vogue ! |