Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye I were reading that they did a survey on it did n't they ? |
| 2 | Cos I , I were asking if they wanted a baked tatie and that and we stood waiting for them and you noticed on sack |
| 3 | And I was looking and they 'd got red , black in one window . |
| 4 | I 'm wearing a blue prison-issue shirt — open-neck , of course — and the jeans I was wearing when they arrested me . |
| 5 | I was hoping when they got that link road through they might connect up , but I do n't suppose it , sort of roads got ta put parking towards the long piece of |
| 6 | I was crushed when they lost that election . ’ |
| 7 | I was told that they receive three meals a day and a very small amount of payment , although this did not appear to be directly related to the amount of work they did . |
| 8 | Yeah well changes platforms of all these trains , anyway after a bit we decided that the Redditch train was going to come in before the train , so , er they did n't change it to say it was n't going to Redditch cos once when I was doing that they said to me , the lad was it , because it 's not to ready to change that time , you would n't matter , cos oh there 's people here waiting to go to Redditch , change it , so he said oh anyway it came , the twelve six came all the young folks going to you should of seen the number that had got off |
| 9 | The following day I asked the young women of an all-girls ' school I was visiting if they had seen her , and what they thought . |
| 10 | she had no business to do it , she knew what she were doing and they had no business to do it . |
| 11 | Although bureau primarily exist to simply output your files direct to bromide or film most of them will make sure that the output is what you were expecting before they send it back . |
| 12 | They thought she was wandering and they went away . |
| 13 | She was born when they had been married a few years . |
| 14 | They 've had him from the Wednesday , was it the Wed er , no from the Saturday to the Wednesday cos she was working and they took him on to seaside somewhere and when come home , he 's having stitches in his head where he 'd fell , he hit it on the stone or summat and I said oh did he enjoy it apart from that , she said he was a swine last night , he was screaming and hitting me and she called her husband down from work , she could n't control him , said she should of smacked his arse and put him in the cot . |
| 15 | ‘ You mean , you think that 's where she was working when they met ? ’ |
| 16 | She was smiling when they reached her , apparently unconcerned by the blood . |
| 17 | ‘ You said we must think about what they know from bugging us while we were talking after they 'd gone . ’ |
| 18 | All I can say is that in a period of two years erm of five , in that time there was five sets of redundancies at erm Hatfield , there are two occasions we were told that they went through it and agree with the unions that there 'd be no more for twelve months and one occasion there was another chap in three months , so if you believe anything that the P A E people there , you know , you really want to wear dark glasses but could I ask you a question , I understand that there is something going on at work with Richard at and my guess is , is , erm that sort of job which we are , there is some form of development plans going forward . |
| 19 | At last I had five pounds — but when my father and I went to buy them we were told that they cost fifteen pounds , a considerable sum of money to an eight-year-old , and way beyond my means . |
| 20 | In fact , there is no further mention of the chapel in the Minute Books of their Meetings for nearly three centuries , and much later they were to claim that they did not know about it until it was brought to their attention for the first time in 1846 . |
| 21 | And this did not stop with the Reformation for , ‘ by virtue of the very generous pensions they were granted when they surrendered their houses to the Crown , ex-abbots possessed ample means to found chantries … or to make bequests for soul-masses after death ’ . |
| 22 | When they were asked whether they wanted to abandon the tournament if the rain did not ease the managers unanimously voted to continue . |
| 23 | Other bands just would n't give a toss , they 'd pose like they were asked if they thought they were going to get a front cover . ’ |
| 24 | Always , before a patient was seen or examined , they were asked if they minded a student being present . |
| 25 | Hospital authorities were warned that there may be some injuries from the competition at the resort 's Spa Pavilion , but they were floored when they got nine patients in quick succession . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , they were blindfolded before they got out of their own car that morning , as you know . |
| 27 | The pair did n't even realise they were related when they met at a special course about the assassination at the University of Liverpool , which was held in the wake of the Oliver Stone film JFK . |
| 28 | They were strictly controlled by the instruction ( nakaz ) which they were given when they set out , whose emphasis was heavily on ceremonial , particularly on the use by foreigners of the tsar 's full title . |
| 29 | It also included statements by the Palm Beach police detailing how they were misled when they went to the estate to speak with Senator Kennedy and Smith on March 31 . |
| 30 | They were drunk when they arrived — two handsome , swaggering young thugs on leave from the Russian Front . |