Example sentences of "they [verb] they [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They felt they had hit the targets by going on about tax and emphasising the warning that votes for the Lib Dems would only help Labour . |
| 2 | But at half-past seven the next morning they knew they had made the right decision . |
| 3 | Conner 's crew were incensed because they thought they had made the perfect forcing manoeuvre . |
| 4 | ‘ I was caught at Dunkirk when they thought they 'd won the bloody war . |
| 5 | Peter said it was a good game when they came home and found that Woking had won five nil they thought they 'd chosen the wrong one . |
| 6 | But a few minutes later they said they had detained the wrong woman and the real suspect was still at large . |
| 7 | They said they 'd changed the wheel in about three minutes flat , I said well it was n't Friday the thirteenth was it ? |
| 8 | They said they went to get the food at Waitrose , and I heaved , and I said , I do n't want to see |
| 9 | They said they wanted to confront the crews with what the plane does . |
| 10 | So many times I have heard someone tell me how they wished they had told the person now dead how much they loved them . |
| 11 | I mean th th th th they were on the way to military security , but were they going , they , they , they recognized they had to carry the population with them . |
| 12 | ‘ The reaction from my clients and business contacts was tremendous — perhaps some of them wish they had done the same — and one senior partner from the Big Six wrote and told me that his mother had been a great friend of Lady Reading , the WRVS 's founder , and that until he was 15 he thought all women dressed in green ! ’ |