Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] they [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time they shared became special now , where before they had been free and easy . |
| 2 | On the eve of their presentation to the Women 's International Professional Council , a group of British tennis writers , plus two from France , were summoned to hear Gerry Smith suggest that all they really wanted to do was to give the women players the same sort of voice in the game as the men ; that they had no intention of tearing the women 's game apart and that if they had been able to carry on negotiations quietly and in confidence , there would have been no problems . |
| 3 | And if they 've been malnourished since they were kids , they 're often slow in learning and remembering . |
| 4 | It amused him for a moment to speculate about the others , if they too had seen the paragraph and whether they had been astonished and afraid . |
| 5 | No wait , there 's three men , there 's three men and they 're all getting sent to prison but because they 've been good they 're all gon na get a wish . |
| 6 | Were n't there greengages somewhere that scarcely ever fruited but when they did were splendid ? |
| 7 | When we consider the essential role of susceptibility it becomes plain that the people who caught a cold in the bus were ‘ ill ’ before they ever stepped onto it , for if they had been healthy they would never have picked up the bugs in the first place . |
| 8 | I was still worrying about this when I pulled into the hotel at Huacho , the mist thicker than ever and my eyes so tired they felt as though they had been sand-blasted . |