Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [conj] they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doing their best for the glory of Canada , the whole field of eleven swept round the bend and went down the far side as if welded together , and it still seemed when they turned for home that that was how they might finish , in a knot . |
| 2 | But it quickly vanished as they got on with the morning 's proceedings . |
| 3 | I said that I just happened to have my travelling rod with me … though it hardly mattered as they had more than enough gear . |
| 4 | It always seemed that they reappeared around Palm Sunday when people were pouring out of the churches carrying little sprays of olive leaves that looked silvery in the hard sunlight . |
| 5 | It also discovered that they earned up to 40 p.c. commission on every policy sold . |
| 6 | It later emerged that they had loaded crude here for third parties to whom they had been chartered-out . |
| 7 | And I have to say that it was after we had done a course for them on really bad press releases , because we , they had done some pretty awful press releases in the past , and we were delighted when that one came out because it actually showed that they 'd picked up the message . |