Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 Usually , on reconnaissance escort , the Germans drove the camera plane home within ten minutes , and often they got it before it recrossed the Line .
2 We had the G A T talks held up for a lengthy period simply because the French wanted even more cash for agriculture and of course they got it and it 's rather silly when we 're spending two hundred and fifty million pounds a week on dumping and destroying food .
3 So they asked me if it was possible the Josephs were bringing drugs in from France along with their haul of works of art . ’
4 They asked me if it was my son , I said yes and I went out to tell Elizabeth .
5 And then they stopped it and it got spread about and then blah blah blah and then it came well it spread all through Europe and
6 They told me that it was of no use to me any more and that I 'd be better off letting them have it .
7 But you know on his log book , last person that had the car he went down to see them , and they told him that it were thirty thousand over from when they sold it .
8 No he 's got it , no but he 's gon na , start again if everything , they told him that it , he , he had no chance he said
9 I specifically asked if this upgrade would be possible and they assured me that it would .
10 Bits yes well Georgina round the corner apparently she has the lot new , because the bank moved them and they paid her and it was over four hundred pounds .
11 They had their they measured it and it was eight foot high and he jumps up , spins around and crash
12 and then they informed me that it was out of stock so I wrote them rather a a polite letter saying that it took them a long to realize it was out of stock when it had been ordered in March and erm I thought their communi communicative system in their office was er non existent .
13 I think some of them do , yes , I know s er some of them have said how much they enjoyed it when it started off first , but er but now it 's just got that wee bit more serious .
14 They knew that they needed us and it was a question of our integrity and our goodwill .
15 They disconnected it because it was faulty .
16 Someone had something some function of X here they differentiated it and it gave them X squared no what did they differentiate ?
17 The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish .
18 You had to have what they gave you and it was pretty revolting from what I remember .
19 They remembered it because it was so unusual for the Zosers to have a visitor , and because he came so late .
20 They were first introduced to me when I was 14 by friends who were 16 , 17 , 18 , who at that time were going to Art College and they introduced me as it was then to five-bob deals of black and stuff like that , y'know .
21 They accepted it and it was swiftly published , appearing before the end of 1938 .
22 You know , this is how it was first and I only come across that but , how it went , they felt I was genuine I suppose and they could trust me and they left it as it was and I had me own building .
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