Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pron] they [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shipowners were eventually compelled to concede to the force of circumstances what they had been unwilling to concede either to reason or to industrial muscle . |
| 2 | After he had reached home , two men in police uniforms had appeared at the door , waved a piece of paper which they said was a warrant for his arrest . |
| 3 | But Merseyside Labour MPs yesterday denounced the verdict which blamed Mr Evans of Wigan who they said was under the orders of the starter , Captain Keith Brown . |
| 4 | Firstly , Allied troops , after years of war , would not take well to a renewal of fighting , against forces whom they had been repeatedly told were our brave allies . |
| 5 | But they had received a further ‘ hammer blow ’ with a demand yesterday ‘ for thousands of pounds from the Inland Revenue for taxation which they had been told by Barlow Clowes had been deducted at source . |
| 6 | Although Douglas was eventually acquitted of any offence , his initial conviction and the methods of the police — which included presenting in court what they claimed was a transcript of their tape of his speech , but which was only one third of the length of another tape-recording which was played to the court — led many Free Presbyterians and sympathizers to believe that the whole force of the state was being directed against them . |
| 7 | I think in America what they did is actually people went out on patrol there . |
| 8 | Most were inherent cowards who picked only on people whom they knew were frightened of them . |
| 9 | Making no mention of sex , she asked the children to tell her about anything that had happened to them at school which they thought was unfair . |