Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then in late July I had my clubs stolen again I had left them for ten minutes at about 9.30pm and when I came back they were gone and it was at the time when I was about to play in two large junior competitions . |
| 2 | As Cora-Beth had so truly argued , they were engaged and it could not be so wrong to anticipate their actual marriage . |
| 3 | It was because of the effects of other people and society on them , that they were corrupted as it were . |
| 4 | They were speaking as it came to an end after just six hours of evidence . |
| 5 | Many involved with its setting up feel deeply unhappy that they were misled when it was set up because the Government encouraged them and they believed that they would get direct financial support . |
| 6 | They were selected because it is clear that , judged by current psychiatric criteria , they all did suffer from episodes of psychosis — to introduce a technical term to be defined more precisely as we proceed through this and the following chapter , but which for the moment can be taken as synonymous with the layperson 's conception of mental illness as it occurs in its most disintegrative form and which especially refers to serious disorders , like schizophrenia . |
| 7 | They were wondering whether it was going to happen again . |
| 8 | You know what I think er , th we 've been talking about it round about and I says , you know , they were wondering if it was a bit suspic , I said no , th , they worry to death , there 's our children who speaking like the nig-nogs ! |
| 9 | One day , soon after he arrived in the dale he had reason to go to another farm and overheard a conversation between two old ladies.p They were lamenting that it was a sad day because outsiders were coming into the dale and taking over farms and was n't it a shame they could n't be let to locals . ’ |
| 10 | Sermons and prayers stressed the patience , humility and virtue of the English king : when people were exhorted to pray for the great expedition which Edward , together with the Black Prince and the duke of Lancaster , led to France in 1355 , they were told that it was setting out ‘ to procure peace ’ . |
| 11 | That is because they were told that it would not happen . |
| 12 | She says that they were told that it was a bomb scare . |
| 13 | The m public consultation meetings and the exhibition were advertised in the local press and I believe on the radio as well , so word of mouth I think in , in the event did overcome that but I can understand people 's feeling that they were excluded and it was not deliberate , it was an oversight . |
| 14 | They were panicking as it was their lack of observation which had led to the two getting away unseen . |
| 15 | As he walked between the lines of cars he saw that one of them was parked so it was sticking out . |