Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] they be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted both Louis the Pious and Judith commemorated because they were his parents and because their imperial status rubbed off on him . |
| 2 | Breeze saw that they were her favourite kind , and remembered then that this had always been a little ritual — chocolates on the first night of the holidays . |
| 3 | But , the next day in court , these same stone-throwing anarchists complained that they were nothing more than innocent bystanders , who had been brutalized by policemen and thrown into Black Marias . |
| 4 | and they sa said that they were they would charge for putting all the new wiring in , although you 're still paying for th you know the |
| 5 | If they stayed where they were they were dead for certain . |
| 6 | I always wondered if they were his demons or familiars which could scuttle along the walls to listen for treason and search out conspiracy . |