Example sentences of "[pron] they [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had their they measured it and it was eight foot high and he jumps up , spins around and crash |
| 2 | She felt her hand being placed against his cheek , and then his lips pressing kisses upon it ; she pulled his hand back , and casting all caution to the winds pressed his palm to her own lips , fondling it , examining the scratched and chisel scars on his knuckles until he wanted her hand back again — and the manner in which they took it in turns to kiss hands through the wall became a competition between them to see who could demonstrate the greatest fondness , a competition that Jennifer was now desperate to win because all her instincts were telling her that Tristram was the only man she could ever love , and that through him lay her path to freedom and independence . |
| 3 | When the Foreign Office List made its first appearance " it was strongly objected to in certain quarters , as likely to afford information to the general public with regard to the office , which they thought it advisable they should not possess , and much information was for a time withheld " . |
| 4 | Life insurers used to be able to show any profit from selling a bond in the year in which they traded it . |
| 5 | The dominant male of the period , like Kenneth More or Michael Dennison , was sexless , full of ‘ common sense ’ , above all , decent : the exaggerated nature of the Edwardians ' dress , its appropriation from middle-class roots , and the obsessional nature with which they pursued it , all spoke of people who did not know their place . |
| 6 | Well I 'm telling you they stuck it they had a sort of flat bottomed cart and they used to stick it in and when they came there they , they lifted it off and stuck it in the ground and it was just similar to that only it was hooped |
| 7 | It gave me a temporary Equity card — mind you they took it away again as soon as I had done the four weeks work . |
| 8 | I assure you they did it 's hard working down there for so long it |
| 9 | You do n't we were u we had to use the immersion did n't we cos w we moved in in the June and Lofty and Brian said well do n't have it done cos you 're not gon na use until August so we they did it August time for us so but we did n't use Servowarm cos it had blown up , they just disconnected it for us , so we used the ho the immersion heater |
| 10 | A paper cup , empty coke can or washing-up liquid container placed in the right position will explain to even the most ardent disbeliever that their swing really is out-to-in and not the most beautiful inside one they thought it was ! |
| 11 | It reflects a conception of themselves inherited from the theory of their nature and place in a slave society , a theory they shared with the slave owners , and from whom they learned it . |
| 12 | Even in front of me they did it . |
| 13 | Even when she crash-landed into the middle of them they found it funny . |
| 14 | The kind of friends she had were loyal by definition , and they liked her , in their eyes she was a woman who could do no wrong ( she was only separated , mind , not divorced ) , they were ready to do any thing for her and when she would not let them they did it for the girl . |
| 15 | They had not yet got Richards , however , and when Collis King joined him they decided it was time to entertain the crowd . |
| 16 | And I mean I have , I I remember that on some T V programmes they they said it 's all bogus |
| 17 | Nobody knew they they they said it was something to do with tanks but nobody knew |
| 18 | Can I deal with your main point , er and in 's very important , er , to understand this , er , the vast majority of the parliamentary party supports strongly what we 're doing , because they believe it will improve passenger services , it will deal with getting freight on , more freight on to rail , now they they backed it throughout the party conference backed it almost unanimously |
| 19 | and then er they they found it at the polic , the police station |
| 20 | so they they pinched it and got a buyer out there ! |
| 21 | Yeah they they used it to get away . |
| 22 | They asked for it they got it , they ca n't turn around and say we 're too busy to deal with it it was their idea |
| 23 | Now that is massive because of all the new er erm it they made it very difficult for independents to survive . |
| 24 | Other bits , is n't it they took it back , you say . |
| 25 | So everything that would hold water was put on the stove and er he did and then it they took it out to the |
| 26 | That 's what they said it is . |
| 27 | Yeah must be want what they swallowed it and they 're swimming round |
| 28 | A very early and most interesting use of this technique was that of Jahoda who asked young people at school to write an essay about their first day at work and what they envisaged it would be like . |
| 29 | Fair Isle , that 's what they called it . ’ |
| 30 | Into care — yes , that was what they called it , care . |