Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [conj] they [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 2 | ( The Health and Safety Department would close the place down if they saw it ! ) |
| 3 | And they said May which we thought was it a bit really but they said it had the the Spring wood but not the Summer wood on it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This was about a year before I joined John Mayall and in fact the band I was in , The Crusaders , had a gig there after they opened it up for rock'n'roll . |
| 6 | They were as relaxed as you 'd expect a couple of dogs to be in the midday sun in the West Indies and clearly had life exactly as they wanted it . |
| 7 | But members turned the application down as they felt it would cause more late-night trouble . |
| 8 | Painting was to become intellectual , and the painters would depict the world not as they saw it , but as they knew it to be . |
| 9 | But because they had taken out a personal accident insurance , they or their beneficiaries received a substantial cash lump sum just when they needed it most . |
| 10 | If this were the case then a junction would only be more likely to be recalled if the subject had actually felt at risk even if they knew it to be a generally dangerous junction . |