Example sentences of "they [vb past] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Believe it or not many people , not many people do actually read them , but school teachers and engineers , the ana , the analytical minds , they read the damn things , and when they come back they ask you a question , and you say , I do n't know , I 've never read it . |
| 2 | I kept them clean and well-dressed , made sure they ate the right things , had regular dental checks and all that , but some of my methods were unorthodox for the time . |
| 3 | The recovery was slow and by 1937 the rate was still at 9%. 3 By 1941 , then , people looked back across two decades of mass unemployment to the end of the previous war , and by and large they assumed the same thing would happen again . |
| 4 | And erm , they recorded different things , but Mat but also they recorded the same things as well |
| 5 | They looked the real thing to me . ’ |
| 6 | I do try to give the rescue teams some feedback on the casualties , so that they know whether or not they did the right things . |
| 7 | Nastiest : Barbara Ellen 's comments in the gossip column about The La 's and The Farm desperately trying to convince their mothers they did the right thing in not aborting them |
| 8 | Some policy-makers also wonder if they did the right thing in opting for ‘ managed competition ’ . |
| 9 | Since Lord Clyde said in his inquiry report that the social workers had acted in good faith , the social workers would have to keep her children to prove they did the right thing in the first place , she said . |
| 10 | Although they are cross with themselves for being so soft , in the end they discover that they did the right thing because it is Gollum who shows them the way to Mount Doom , and Gollum who finally disposes of the Ring . |
| 11 | They organised 12-car rallies around the Cambridge Fens , asking every local resident for permission to hold the event and then , when the snow caused the event to be called off , they did the same thing again . |
| 12 | If they did the same thing again to you ? |
| 13 | But in France if they did the same thing they would be talking in French down their machine . |
| 14 | Then they did the whole thing all over again without stirrups , and all the time talking and shouting to one another . |
| 15 | I interspersed my self-portraits throughout the collection and they gave the whole thing a lot of impact if I do say so myself . |
| 16 | They said the only thing we 've been talking about at R F S is his er wheel effects . |
| 17 | Well I du n no , I mean on the one hand in nine in nineteen forty five I think it was , they were saying you know well in order to do , have s s s successful land reform you need three conditions , they said the same thing in nineteen forty eight , they said you need this , this , this and then we have to be militarily secure but then in nineteen forty six they 're saying no , do n't worry about it , just get the land reform sorted out , just do it . |
| 18 | and you know and then they said the same thing to her they said come back next weekend and we 'll sort it out . |
| 19 | After only a few days he gave up and did his best to ignore them even though they had the one thing above all he was beginning to want : freedom . |