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

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1 One was that all people knew about me was that I was making trouble about the caravan site and a lot of them assumed that because it was at the bottom of my own garden , I must naturally be on ‘ their side ’ , whatever my political colour : that is , I wanted the site disbanded .
2 They felt that if it set the wages of very poor people , the next thing it would do would be to start setting the wages of trade unionists .
3 I hope they saw that because it was n't going to last .
4 Cos they advertised when before it became illegal to advertise .
5 ‘ I had n't expected the papers to pick up on Thomas 's birth , ’ she went on , ‘ but when they did and when it was taken for granted that he was Simon 's I let that be , too . ’
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