Example sentences of "they [vb past] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely they realised that it had all been a mistake once you explained ? ’ |
| 2 | The nurses topped it up again as soon as they realised but it took time to go through and have any effect so I had about twenty minutes of real labour pains . |
| 3 | Students ' reactions to the pattern of the original version were interesting : they argued that it felt too " top-heavy " , too 'symmetrical " and was on the whole rather unsubtle . |
| 4 | Among other matters , the G-7 Finance Ministers reaffirmed their concern over the yen , although they noted that it had stabilized since their last meeting in April . |
| 5 | Sometimes the dog would bark for no apparent reason and they assumed that it had sensed a wildcat or a leopard stealing up in silence through the darkness . |
| 6 | When pressed by the US Federal Trade Commission for an explanation they replied that it meant that the inside of the car was 700 per cent quieter than the outside . |
| 7 | They stated that it cost taxpayers 3bn to 4bn per annum in overrun defence contracts . |
| 8 | The children had no complaints about the refreshments , and when it was time to leave , they decided that it had been a pretty good party . |
| 9 | A keen breeze had sprung up and they watched as it chased fallen leaves along the pavement , blowing them into little heaps against the red brick wall . |
| 10 | The aggressive marketing of seats to foreign cosmonauts on short duration Soyuz flights to the Mir space station in order to recoup some of the costs [ see pp. 37437 ; 37932 ; 38219 ] was also unpopular among many officials involved in the space programme ; they felt that it devalued the space programme at a time when the Zenit and Energia super boosters remained grounded with technical problems [ see p. 37797 ] and the first manned mission of the Soviet Buran shuttle had been postponed , at least to 1993 . |
| 11 | Perhaps they felt that it had been a dream all along , always doomed , this fantastical idea that their young brother would go on and get himself a serious education , even go to college . |
| 12 | These industrialists welcomed foreign capital , because they felt that it stimulated economic activity in general , from which they could all benefit ( Petras and Cook 1973 ) . |
| 13 | That 's why sometimes they got mad at him because they knew he was talking to them and about them and they knew that it applied to them . |
| 14 | Far from perceiving social work as too adversarial , they insisted that it remained too bland , welfarist and optimistic in its assumptions and operational strategies with potentially abusive parents . |
| 15 | Aye they did although it takes me a bit of time to think about it but erm they did have a a er a black book , aye . |
| 16 | Once the excavation is over , the vast majority of sites revert to the anonymity that they possessed before it started . |
| 17 | It had taken a war to do that , Vi realized ; though she would n't mind betting that on the day peace came , all the caring would end and people would go back to minding their own business again , just as they had before it started . |
| 18 | Perhaps they had and it had been kept dark . |
| 19 | They suggested that it had been created by fusion within the metal and that muons from cosmic radiation might have been the catalyst . |