Example sentences of "they [vb past] [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | They relented when it was explained that the alternative was to exhume the bodies of other relatives . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Well for some reason they survived when it was expanded . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Or they thought they did until it always says Conservative propaganda on the sides so I think that 's a gon na . |
| 8 | Yeah they did when it was new |
| 9 | Once the excavation is over , the vast majority of sites revert to the anonymity that they possessed before it started . |
| 10 | Danish defender Bjorn Kristensen hit the second-half equaliser that gave Kevin Keegan 's side a point they hardly deserved in the Anglo-Italian Cup they won when it was last staged 19 years ago . |
| 11 | Mark you , I said as she was too big , but they said as it could just be the water , as they could n't hear no more than the one heart . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They went to the recruitment caravan , and to the film about combat in the jungle , which they left before it was over . |
| 14 | If the wind was unduly foul , they waited until it was fair . |
| 15 | He or she invents a product which consumers did n't know they wanted until it is made available , manufactures it with the assistance of purveyors of risk capital known as publishers , and sells it in competition with makers of marginally differentiated products of the same kind . |