Example sentences of "[vb past] they [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only thing that linked them was the embarrassing albatross of a marriage in whose death both of them had been guilty . |
| 2 | The established , and now publicized , fact that women 's sexual capacity increases with age , at least until the late twenties , and stays at this peak for decades , while men 's is already declining , came as a shock both to men , who suddenly discovered they were the unlucky sex , and to women who had not realized what they had been missing . |
| 3 | They all supported an increased budget , which meant they were the ONLY county capped by the Government for spending too much . |
| 4 | We were using it for drunk driving offenders and repeat traffic offenders , not so much because I felt they were the only people who were appropriate for it , but because we wanted to make sure we started with a group who were not likely to get into major trouble should the project not work out . |
| 5 | They were stopped and questioned by the police , who thought they were the real thing . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought they were the only party that could rule Namibia . |
| 7 | And er they thought they were the big cheese you see , th th th those who worked there . |
| 8 | He thought they were the local militia . |
| 9 | I walked alongside the men at the head of the column and soon learned they were the Black Watch , a well-known Scottish regiment . |
| 10 | He said they were the self-indulgent ramblings of a patches-on-the-elbow peasant , and who the hell did he think he was anyway ? |
| 11 | So some bright spark produced small tasty jam-filled doughnuts and said THEY were the missing holes . |
| 12 | The reason we did those mailings is because of the warning that we had they were the only mailings available by the way . |
| 13 | They specifically denied they were the Arab Revolutionary Cells Group , originally believed to be holding Mr Reed . |