Example sentences of "[pron] they [verb] [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rufus put up two or three names , one being of someone they had both been at school with . |
| 2 | They did not pause on her arrival , though Alix , ever polite , waved obliquely to welcome her back : watching them , it occurred to Liz that perhaps in all the years they had all known one another , this was one of the very few occasions on which they had all been in the same room . |
| 3 | Yet , all in all , farming and the farm remained visibly what they had always been in most parts of the world : more prosperous in the developed areas , and hence investing more heavily in improvements , buildings , etc. , more businesslike in many places , but not transformed out of recognition . |
| 4 | ‘ Work , ’ she told him quietly , her eyes seeking the dark depths of his for something that would relate to what they had once been to each other in Seville . |
| 5 | By the late 1980s , the attractions of city life were not what they had once been for the peasants . |