Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [be] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she found that she was pregnant , she turned to her older sister for help , and since the O'Dells knew that Mr Marriner had been paying court to Moira , they assumed he was responsible for her condition . |
| 2 | They thought it was normal for Lucy ( they had never called her Mummy ) to fly from room to room looking for her watch , keys , diary , gloves , scarf , and blow a kiss to them from the garden path as the taxi-driver carried her cello out to the car , while Nissy held them up to the window to wave . |
| 3 | They thought it was bad for children to have an ending like that . ’ |
| 4 | They said it 's illegal for anyone to go onto a British Rail line without permission . |
| 5 | They said I were wrong for leaving him and that I should go back to him = my father did n't agree with it , he 's er , very old fashioned , we 've never had any divorces or anything in our family … |