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

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1 All right , there had been two of them involved and it was unfair , but he would be feeling tricked … and trapped .
2 Some of them believed that it would be brought about by an ideal representative of God , an anointed one , a Messiah ( see chapter 8 ) .
3 of them believed that recession would get worse under a Labour Government , and not one of them believed that it would get better .
4 This , at least , is the view of Gair ( 1978 ) , who reports that a Gallup Poll in May 1978 showed that 40 per cent of Americans did not know that the United States imported oil at all , and that hardly any of them knew that it imported about half its crude oil and refined products at that time .
5 They relented when it was explained that the alternative was to exhume the bodies of other relatives .
6 He did not say much when they met and it was always muffled by the lapels of his coat .
7 The scene was filmed , but the problems started when they realized that it would not be possible for them to be lowered to the ground , as planned .
8 In the end they agreed that it was a fair way of sharing the inheritance , and so the legal steps were taken to transfer equal shares to all of us .
9 I asked that the link road from to Lane , which had been omitted , should be included in the town plan and Councillor has written on that matter to District Council and they agreed that it should be .
10 The fighting continued for a few seconds before they realised that it was no longer dark .
11 They abandoned this idea when they realised that it would mean the end of the NSDAP in Danzig .
12 Surely they realised that it had all been a mistake once you explained ? ’
13 But as they cuddled the dead baby they realised that it was n't their child .
14 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 .
15 They , they asked that it be done on a Friday and a Saturday and that they appeared on Thursday with it , erm , I 'm getting on with it .
16 He and my hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield posed the best question of the debate when they asked whether it could apply to rail .
17 People paid their debts and when they needed help , they asked and it was never refused ; it was the way that the small and widespread community had always lived , and as a system it was dignified and efficient .
18 Now , the Yale and Union locks they 'd got a certain type of locks that they produced and it was all done with a system , you know what I mean and more or less come to assembly and er they did that .
19 They argued that it was often non-culpable since even the most respectable workers could not always save sufficient to provide for old age — a hazard which not all could expect to live to experience and whose length was uncertain .
20 Rather than dreaming primarily being psychologically necessary — a response dealing with occasional neurotic erotic impulses during sleep — they argued that it is in fact the outcome of an automatic , pre-programmed neural process .
21 They argued that it would act as a mirror " to reflect the desires , opinions and hardships of the Thai society " so as to promote unity , ensure that the population 's grievances were heard , and prevent future crises from undermining the country and its institutions .
22 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 .
23 There was an estimate of £10:1:0 for enclosing Kiels , with a gate , and they recommended that it be done if it did not exceed
24 It had been hit by a passing lorry , and they joked that it would never fly again .
25 They proposed that it was a function of the mean payout ratio , the predicted short-term earnings and long-term dividend growth rates , the variability of the historical earnings growth rates and the historical earnings growth rate .
26 They found that it was used in 40 per cent of development projects but only 16 per cent of research projects , and then mainly in large , complex projects costing over $500 000 .
27 They found that it was used in 40 per cent of development projects but only 16 per cent of research projects , and then mainly in large , complex projects costing over $500 000 .
28 He did that to get publicity , cos in fact they found that it was n't eh , rubbish he was selling in there .
29 I think they found that it just was n't practical to wear very long dresses ; it was alright for dressing up , but not for every day .
30 ‘ The orchestra is better than it ever was , ’ he enthused , ‘ and as always with the LPO they play slightly behind the beat , which is correct because if they played before it everybody would be lost . ’
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