Example sentences of "[verb] be a [noun sg] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Place has been a wreck when they 've got it back . ’ |
| 2 | There has been a feeling that they would compromise with Chelsea to the extent of accepting half the £22.85 million valuation . |
| 3 | A Customs and Excise spokesman said they can not tell if there has been an offence as they are not sure if an import licence was ever necessary . |
| 4 | When Gloria complained , there 'd been a tiff and they 'd had to leave . |
| 5 | I put it to Andy that it must have been a blow when they split in 1988 , but he , ever the voice of reason , says , ‘ There was no point in trying to keep them together , it had gone as far as they wanted it to go and they wanted to do something different . |
| 6 | But company executives accept that there must have been a leak as they put together a financing package to back their bid for Dixons . |
| 7 | It would have been an injustice if they had taken it away from me . ’ |
| 8 | Vera asks me : ‘ Why did you stay a Communist for so long , even after your friend was executed in 1950 ? '' ’ The friend in question had been a schoolmate and they had worked together in the resistance . |
| 9 | Coghill , who had been a friend since they read English together as undergraduates in 1923 , was now the English tutor at Exeter College . |
| 10 | There had been a moon when they 'd first arrived , but the clouds had come while they were chopping wood , and the rain while they 'd cooked dinner on the two little primus stoves . |
| 11 | It had been a puzzle that they could be knocked around in interaction with each other and yet emerge unscathed , the same as they had been at the beginning . |
| 12 | For a while there had been a feeling that they were asking the right questions and that at any moment the individual answers would shuffle themselves into a significant total . |