Example sentences of "but they [vb past] [vb pp] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But they had left it too late . |
| 4 | No , he did n't know what , if anything , they had taken away , nothing , he rather thought , but they had left it untidy . |
| 5 | I 'd have loosened my tie , but they had taken it away along with my wallet , gun , belt and shoelaces . |
| 6 | 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 . |