Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tried to keep it a secret but you ca n't keep secrets long in television . ’ |
| 2 | Well if er , if they 'd left it a bit later |
| 3 | Nothing much doing at the pond , they had set the rods up and were wandering around , looking for frogs and newts , then they returned to their rods ; nothing stirred , so around 10pm they decided to call it a day . |
| 4 | The Indians ran out of arrows — they decided to call it a day |
| 5 | Then I went through the samples in my kitchen and realised that , rather than look at the non-mainstream areas , I could look at wines from perfectly accepted areas that broke the usual conventions ; or in one brilliant example , I could see what great traditional winemakers — in this case a pair of Burgundian grandees — could do when they decided to rough it a bit in France 's far south . |
| 6 | If they had questioned it the chances of the orders being carried out would 've been much less of course . |
| 7 | They had to give it a quarter turn you see with a spanner . |
| 8 | Returning Edward the proofs of his book , Helen commented : ‘ This has indeed been a fair spring for us , though they had made it a winter . |
| 9 | They had followed it every morning and would continue to follow it until their sentences were up . |
| 10 | They had patronised it the previous night , taking to heart its motto ( in Latin ) , ‘ drink yourself to hell ’ . |
| 11 | They wanted to make it a game to remember for their boss , for birthday boy , Glenn , but on the night , sadly , there was no icing on the Town cake . |