Example sentences of "they [vb past] [conj] 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 did not say much when they met and it was always muffled by the lapels of his coat . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The fighting continued for a few seconds before they realised that it was no longer dark . |
| 7 | They abandoned this idea when they realised that it would mean the end of the NSDAP in Danzig . |
| 8 | Surely they realised that it had all been a mistake once you explained ? ’ |
| 9 | But as they cuddled the dead baby they realised that it was n't their child . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | It had been hit by a passing lorry , and they joked that it would never fly again . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He did that to get publicity , cos in fact they found that it was n't eh , rubbish he was selling in there . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | I was particularly thrilled with the guys who scored the points for us on the final day , Mark James , Jose-Maria Olazabal , Jose-Maria Canizares , Ronan Rafferty and Christy O'Connor Jnr. , because in the case of Canizares , Ronan and Christy they had n't scored a point in the games they played and it was nice for them to take some of the glory . |
| 28 | There was one , but the Austrians had it reduced in size because they believed that it might be used as an observation tower by the recalcitrant Milanese . |
| 29 | By and large , those who approved of conscription when it came did so because they believed that it was everyone 's duty to serve in the armed forces in any case . |
| 30 | They believed that it was wrong because Jesus was mixing with people who were not tolerated by strict Jews . |