Example sentences of "they [vb past] it [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the returns fell it increased labour output ; if they rose it felt no need to do so and opted instead for increased leisure . |
| 2 | They used it to buy a truck , which earned more money , which they used in turn to create a new farm , with further grants from the government . |
| 3 | Craftsmen painstakingly cut the warp , one rib at a time , with long , knives ; then they brushed it to make the pile stand up . |
| 4 | They watched it waste the meadows for the whole day . |
| 5 | The light shows through the membrane-type front panel — which a couple of people here did n't like because they felt it looked a bit cheap . |
| 6 | They felt it offered no child care provisions , did not promise much for the unemployed and will mean a rise in fuel bills from next year . |
| 7 | The only experience of collectivization there 'd been was the Soviet one and they seemed to have known at least something about the Soviet , they knew it involved a lot of force they knew that if you were going to collect you were going to collectivize you needed the mechaniz well they thought that you needed the mechanization first and they knew that they d A they did n't have the capacity for that mechanization they did n't want to use force I mean i it would , i it would have been very dangerous , would n't it , to go back to the countryside collectivization . |
| 8 | Yes well even so , if they bought it say the middle of July , there 's July to September to October . |
| 9 | They said it appeared the death was not suspicious but they would like to hear from anyone in the area between 7am and 8am yesterday . |