Example sentences of "it [vb past] they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made them all laugh when Peter said that come to that , what he did with him was against the law since Jay was not yet twenty-one . |
| 2 | It made them both giggle . |
| 3 | Carrie stood knee deep in the dry , sweet-smelling hay and helped Albert take Frederick 's huge forkfuls that were so heavy , sometimes , it made them both stagger . |
| 4 | Like they make a mistake , or I 'd better phone back , and then it cost them all that much money again , more money . |
| 5 | Yes , yes , that 's right , they use , yeah , but I insisted that it were open doors for you as jobs were so hard to get , I said it were open doors for you and it did it helped them both . |
| 6 | There was never any nastiness between Lee and Tony , but it fired them both up ; they were both determined to beat the other . |
| 7 | Haldane and Hogben 's Marxism made them critical of pedigree studies because it taught them that biological determinism should be supplemented by economic determinism . |
| 8 | She was going to be all right eventually ; her illness was physical in origin and the possibility of a relapse , while it terrified them both , would diminish as she grew older . |
| 9 | He and his wife tried and tried to have another one and they did , but it took them all those years . |
| 10 | It took them all of the pre-lunch session to get the runs as Walsh and Bishop made life difficult , and Gooch fell just before the end ; but with three balls left before lunch |
| 11 | They built it around a makeshift shrine , with offerings to the gods , both good and bad , and it took them all the following winter , this winter . |
| 12 | It took them all day to build the bridge — felling two of the tallest pines , stripping them bare , easing them with ropes down the steep slope to the river . |
| 13 | It took them half the time to get Kevin out to the Murphy cart than it took to get Liam sobered up again and it was Nellie who finally drove the cart away with its very full load . |
| 14 | It took them half an hour to get the fire under control , and the building , two tractors and a number of farm implements were severely damaged . |
| 15 | It took them most of the day and , in the evening , they picked up their basketloads of red meat and carried them back to the security and acceptance of their own Untouchable community at the far end of the village . |
| 16 | When I first acquired a cube , Conway and Roger Penrose , from Oxford University , had already solved theirs and remarked that it took them some time to realise the power of conjugation . |
| 17 | This group has long been noted for its breadth of vision but nevertheless it took them some time to realise the unique advantages of the photosynthetic ‘ mechanisms ’ in plants and thereby to derive what may be an original approach to the problem . |
| 18 | It took them several years to prepare the area . |
| 19 | Not that it did them any good . |
| 20 | it sort of er er gave them lee a , ladies leeway who wanted to work after they were married , some married and then could they come back well they could n't keep me on and not let them work you see , so oh yes it was mostly married women , there were a lot of married women there when I left , but erm it sort of set a precedent I suppose for , for them but it did , it did them some good really . |
| 21 | But I can tell you it gave them all a good laugh in casualty when they discovered what had happened . ’ |
| 22 | Through that , Red Rhino came up with a matching deal which was not very high in terms of money or anything but it gave them some status , certainly with promotion . |
| 23 | It said they all stood with bowed heads at the start of the meeting after they had heard of his death , ‘ and there was a silence that could be felt … . ’ |
| 24 | Others may have had a succession of live-in boy or girl friends , lasting as long as it suited them both . |
| 25 | It tainted them all with the scandal . ’ |
| 26 | Whatever the point of the conversation was , it held them both tense , their eyes staring until there seemed almost to be an invisible bond . |