Example sentences of "but they [was/were] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were still celebrated Marxist historians , such as E. P. Thompson , Eric Hobsbawm , Christopher Hill , and John Saville , but they were all at the veteran stage , and there appeared to be no significant youthful successors , as their creed withered throughout eastern Europe . |
| 2 | But they were all for certain things and I , I , I remember one er was for anybody who stuttered . |
| 3 | It is true that there were one or two errors ; but they were all on level ground and cost little to rectify . |
| 4 | Yeah , but they were all like that , they 'd all stab you in the back . |
| 5 | McGrath 's best work came from body punches , but they were few in number and he was heavily out-scored by Oakes , whose work was far more varied . |
| 6 | But they were some of the ones that we went Swanage with . |