Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patrol took some prisoners and drove through the lines until they met up with a British unit , who refused to believe they were who they said they were . |
| 2 | I do n't know but then frankly thinking but then I got them in the end you know I just did n't sell them because nobody paid that much and then ah in the outset and I paid quite a big price for for two for Patrick and me and then when they were they they dropped the price and then I got some more . |
| 3 | How were they they brought up ? |
| 4 | She would stay , here where things were what they seemed to be , where trees were trees , hens were hens . |
| 5 | Like Isobel , they were what they looked , quiet people doing very necessary jobs and a that moment grieving for one of their number who had left them . |
| 6 | ‘ When I was designing Metaltronix gear , I made everything bigger , for product visibility , but I would get letters telling me that the Marshall ‘ standard ’ head dimensions were what they wanted , so that 's what I based these new amp heads on . |
| 7 | Horses and wagon were what they wanted , and what they took , for all we could do to stop them . |
| 8 | Nearly all Cora-Beth 's friends were what they called ‘ dating ’ , although many were even younger than she was . |
| 9 | Fifty-six per cent of these men lost their virginity to somebody they knew well ; for 14% , the partner was someone they had just met . |
| 10 | Yo yo you knew your clubman was coming , you 've stayed in and that is how our local clubman who is now dead , Mr became a councillor because naturally , people voted for him against the Conservative because he was someone they knew , someone like as came you know . |
| 11 | But it was you they wanted to kill ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't think it was you they wanted to kill . |
| 13 | Interviewed on TV-am , Dr Owen said the choice facing voters was who they wanted as Prime Minister . |
| 14 | I mean it stuck out like a sore thumb , I mean er by King George 's playing fields erm cos of the , they had n't the , th the , the s other story for that was as I said was we they sent er some of us to a class in Walsall for er aircraft recognition and er the days I went to this class , cos I went as er , er both for the factory and for the Home Guard , so that I could cover both the factory and when I were on duty , Home Guard and we was at a building on the corner of Corporation Street and west , and we was taking classes in there . |
| 15 | The film was everything they had hoped for and they loved every minute of it . |
| 16 | he was everything they owned . |
| 17 | Thailand 's Professor Pilai Poonswad , who for 10 years has been studying four species of forest hornbills , pointed out that the birds nest in large Dipterocarps and that their taste in trees was something they shared with loggers . |
| 18 | Anathema as it may be to Welsh Rugby Union ears , this was something they realised at Twickenham at least five years ago and we have all seen the felicitous results . |
| 19 | It was something they had dreamed of many times . |
| 20 | It was something they had both known since New Orleans . |
| 21 | It was something they had never done before . |
| 22 | It was something they recognised in each other and shared . |
| 23 | It was something they talked about frequently . |
| 24 | It was something they needed to talk about . |
| 25 | This conversation about their only child 's first job was one they 'd had before , a comforting reiteration of mutual reassurance . |
| 26 | Who was it they had on who a aging singer , what 's his name just before Christmas in the Mail who wanted us to go and see them and |
| 27 | What was it they said about people who were convinced that the rest of the world was plotting against them ? |
| 28 | What was it they said about a murderer returning to the scene of his crime ? |
| 29 | What was it they called that term in rhetoric ? |
| 30 | in bad weather we used to go into what was it they called Long Hope or something and anchor there . |