How were they played with squirrels vs How did they play with squirrels

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• And they played with Anna and Lydia in the dairy.
• I was very violent and not him Liked that they played with him.
• They played with the sea as I'd never seen them before.
• This was pure cruelty, and I met many children, men and women in Afghanistan in the emergency hospitals, with mutilated bodies; there are thousands of children in the world mutilated because they played with fragments of cluster bombs, attracted by the coloured objects.
• They played my law review party.
• These fellas in the Unit carried 'em home to deal with squirrels.
• After a while, his place was just overrun with squirrels.
• As fellows in the unit carried them off home to deal with squirrels.
• Unless they played sports all their lives and had two physicals a year.
• They played a joke on both of us.
• No, they played brandy for me.
• - They played a trick on you.
• They played that the night before I left for Paris.
• That first song, the only reason they played it was...
• She was there when they played poker.
• I don't care who they played for.
• I used to make this for my brothers when they played Juniors.
• They played that commercial for eight years straight.
• They played us both for suckers.
• So I sat down, and they played the TEDTalk.

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• Instead of video games that take batteries and software, our kids will play with squirrels!
• Just out of curiosity, how did a dead squirrel play into the work you were doing here?
• What did they play at the concert Friday night?
• Did they play an extra inning or whatever?
• Did they play so badly that they don't even deserve a comment?
• For the boys, they play with them.
• It'd be a terrible model for a particle physicist, because they don't play with car stops, they play with these little weird particles.
• How dare they play with my emotions like that?
• They play with you when they pay you.
• Now, they play with other children.
• Teacher, not our business They play with our first
• And when it's in their world, they can relate to it and play with it in a way that's fundamentally different from how they play with it on the screen.
• They run to you and they play with you, but they ignore me.
• When they play with their hair like he is, that's when I know that they're guilty.
• And when they play with their particles, they find they do all sorts of really weird things -
• These fellas in the Unit carried 'em home to deal with squirrels.
• After a while, his place was just overrun with squirrels.
• As fellows in the unit carried them off home to deal with squirrels.
• They play an important role in combating financial exclusion.
• They play a particular role in combating poverty and inequality.