Example sentences of "that they [vb past] [vb pp] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first he thought he 'd been burgled , but he was astonished to find when he called the police that they 'd done it . |
| 2 | If I gave them an order to couple up a full line of maybe ten coaches , I would n't take it for granted that they 'd done it , I 'd walk up the coach , one walk up one side , down the other side and I would n't If there were a heating valve not open , if they forgot that you see , I would n't do it for them , I would go back and I 'd say , that S K third from the back end , the heating valve is not pulled down , you 've missed it , you 'd better When you 're up that way , just pull it down you see . |
| 3 | A few people sat on the floor ( no chairs in the drama studio ) and jumped straight to their feet again as an outbreak of jeering laughter told them that they 'd got it wrong . |
| 4 | More than that , he felt insulted that they had hidden it from him . |
| 5 | The problem with the building was that they had made it suicide-proof , so there were no windows you could open on the front . |
| 6 | Although many of them had starved in the past and were therefore well equipped to recognize starvation now that they had met it again . |
| 7 | How could it have come about , he marvelled afresh , that they had parcelled it out and tied it up with strings of law ? |
| 8 | However , there were many instances cited where GPs felt that they could not ‘ help ’ users even when this was the first time that they had sought it . |
| 9 | In a sense they were victims of a paradox ; they had chosen their middle way in order to retain their identity ; yet it was to be this very middle way which convinced others that they had relinquished it . |
| 10 | It was over , and some were complaining that they had missed it . |
| 11 | She implied that they had heard it in the shop and Tony said reassuringly , ‘ Do n't worry about it . |
| 12 | Hysterectomy ca n't be too bad : 96% of a group of Australian women who have had the operation say they are pleased to have had it , while 55% say they wish that they had had it sooner ! |
| 13 | Indeed , Hamilton suggested crisply that they had got it wrong and left it at that . |
| 14 | According to second-hand reports of the conversation Krishchaty said that the body was lying on the ground at about 8,250m and that they had passed it two or three times . |