Example sentences of "[coord] they [vb past] [vb pp] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose she went out into the woods with … him , and they were going to make love … or they 'd done it … and she said ‘ I 'm pregnant , you 're the father , what are you going to do about it ? ’ |
| 2 | The truth was that the two women between them had raised the nine million dollars needed to make The Dawn of Dreams , and they had done it with such consummate feminine grace that the handsome , silver-haired head of the family did not quite understand that his title of producer was merely honorary . |
| 3 | But they were climbers , and they had made it . |
| 4 | It was the traditional fare and they had agreed it might be something worth trying . |
| 5 | He could do nothing to persuade them to join him and they had left it too late . |
| 6 | A time out procedure had been discussed with the parents and they had used it unsuccessfully at home . |
| 7 | It had been a deep and tub-like pram , and they had used it to convey her from place to place long after she had been of an age to be confined in such a vehicle . |
| 8 | It was the same look she 'd directed at the men all through lunch and they 'd loved it . |
| 9 | But he had it , and they 'd lost it , so he ran it . |
| 10 | It took them what she reported it as soon as the office opened and they 'd done it at about ten twelve time . |
| 11 | They 'd heard this awful racket you see and they 'd thought it was me coming and falling or something on the stairs . |
| 12 | Anyway they went in this big store Dickens and they 'd got it in there |
| 13 | A short time before , estate agents ' men had put up a board to say that five houses were to be built — but they had erected it in the flower garden of the house instead of in the field as they had been instructed . |
| 14 | But they had meant it , and he was eager now to bring everybody together in a fine , hard point of resolve , in case zeal slackened and died away in the holiday atmosphere of this soft , comfortable afternoon . |
| 15 | But they had left it too late . |
| 16 | No , he did n't know what , if anything , they had taken away , nothing , he rather thought , but they had left it untidy . |
| 17 | I 'd have loosened my tie , but they had taken it away along with my wallet , gun , belt and shoelaces . |
| 18 | As we have seen , repeal feminists had not been opposed to moral disciplining but they had promoted it through the more ‘ feminine ’ domain of voluntary agencies , attacking the statist solutions of male professionals . |