Example sentences of "[that] they were [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1	Cigarettes were placed on the table in front of you which meant that they were for everybody .
2	They could n't prove nothing , but they warned us that they were onto us and , if they heard we was still dealing , they 'd be round like a shot , like .
3	The police driver asked for her documents but the woman explained , with a pleasant smile that they were at her home nearby .
4	We learned that they were on their summer holidays , taking their kayak round the outer reaches of the Arctic .
5	Dan had suggested a drink , and she 'd agreed , happier now that they were on their way back .
6	I honestly believe that the rail workers would n't have accepted the one and a half per cent , other workers would n't have accepted the one and a half per cent if they believed that they were on their own that they were gon na fight in isolation .
7	He was as sensitive about his body as a proud owner of its pet 's and was perpetually asking her to look inside his ear to see whether there was something amiss — she saw nothing but pink perfection — and wondering about the freshness of his lungs in the atmosphere — she assumed that they were like his ears — and surveying the immaculateness , the flatness of his belly in her long wall mirror with its carved , wooden frame .
8	Canals may have performed a general price-lowering function in , to use Professor Mathias 's phrase , " cracking open " local monopolies , but it should not be forgotten that they were in themselves mono-polies , even though canal companies hardly ever operated carrier services and confined themselves to earning from tolls .
9	He disclosed the terms of the American offer , he left no doubt that they were in his opinion the best that could be obtained and should be accepted , and he rounded things off with what were interpreted as some highly uncomplimentary remarks about the quality of the Congressional opinion which had to be accommodated .

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