Example sentences of "they did that " in BNC.

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1 They did that at school .
2 They did that , they could insure anybody .
3 We have seen how ‘ the street ’ and ‘ the city ’ played important roles in middle-class demonology , so it is easy to understand why youth workers sought to provide counter-attractions to them , believing as they did that ‘ there is nothing worth doing to be done there ’ .
4 From these it is clear that he identified completely with the men in the outposts , believing as they did that if all was well in the boma the empire could be left to take care of itself .
5 They did that anyway , smartass , ’ growled Brown .
6 They became great friends and when they did that film in Africa they had a 15-hundredweight truck behind them absolutely full of whisky that followed them everywhere they went .
7 They did that for their sins , she said , a kind of penance .
8 One of the things that was popular was that the smaller things like rabbit clubs when people could then get food for them officially if they did that .
9 The second of our problems had to be settled either over a table or in Court so it certainly was not acceptable to let 1,000 people in and hold them to ransom , as they did that night .
10 So they did that .
11 Erm and they did that with the women .
12 You see I were born in nineteen hundred so that means to say that when it 's nineteen ninety eight I 'll be ninety eight , I think they did that so I could er reckon me age up more easily .
13 They did that kind of thing , back then .
14 So they did that and he came and sorted me out .
15 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 .
16 Er yes they did that .
17 But in my great grannie 's time I think they did that .
18 Draughts you know , but always father spoke about his And er they did that and then there was oh great ones for meeting in their own houses to fiddle .
19 Yes , they did that so my That old great grandfathers of mine they went fr from here to Arbroath with theirs over the hill .
20 They did that with the neeps so that when the man came along with a cart they could throw them , you see .
21 And Oz pornography did n't outrage her , because it was n't the old-style pornography , and because within the underground , she supposed — unlike on the different Black Dwarf — they did that sort of thing .
22 ‘ Well , look on the bright side — it might actually be hot if they did that . ’
23 They did that in nineteen seventy two , that 's right
24 you know and the precis you know and I thought that was interesting that they did that , because it 's not something we 'd thought of really doing , ever
25 Okay , and they did that do you think ?
26 Yes , at fifty instead of sixty , they said you retire at age fifty and we will make your pension up to what you would have got at age sixty and we will also do the same with you lump sum and so now you know , this and they did that with thirty thousand I think went in one year , it does n't take long to get rid of one point seven billion pounds when you 're doing for that er that number of people erm and
27 As long as they did that they were happy . ’
28 But they would n't be allowed to bother us while they did that .
29 We 've had that pebble-dash nearly , nearly , it 's nearly two years since they did that pebble-dash .
30 They did that to me one day .
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