Example sentences of "was [pron] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the marriage that was being described was different from the one they had known , indeed bore almost no resemblance to it , and there was no-one to tell them this . |
| 2 | On one ocassion , patients were said to have spent the night in wet beds because there was no-one to change them . |
| 3 | There was nothing to link them directly to Zoser . ’ |
| 4 | Shadows appeared where there was nothing to cause them . |
| 5 | And in the morning there was nothing to see they were floating about you know with the floods . |
| 6 | There was nothing to stop them for , and the brush-off had at least been done politely . |
| 7 | Erm and she was from the Pentiford area I think , erm oh quite a well educated girl , erm there was nothing to stop them from joining , I mean the London Fire Brigade there are , are fire fighters who are girls , erm and the er they do very well erm there are problems of course , with , with women on fire stations , but nevertheless there 's no reason why they should n't be there , providing they can do the job and I 'm sure those who read the papers and see the news know that in Russia and places like that , women do the , do the job very well . |
| 8 | Er er certainly in retrospect one , one might argue that erm politically there was nothing to stop them |
| 9 | They heard no more from behind them and as the small amount of sky they could see between the tree-tops was clouded over there was nothing to give them direction . |
| 10 | Now there was nothing to keep them apart and soon Jenna was too lost in love to remember where she was . |
| 11 | It was n't compulsory by any means — there was nothing to prevent them wearing civilian fashion — but they chose to advertise their solidarity with their husbands , to demonstrate esprit de corps and , as it happened , even at home in malai land as well as here in occupied territory , it was to their advantage to show who they were . |
| 12 | Historically , there was nothing to match them , for cork expands snugly into the quirkiest of hand-blown bottle necks . |
| 13 | I vaguely recall writing down the codes months ago and losing whatever it was I wrote them on . |
| 14 | And they just had this the er er You know the what was I to say they had their their s scythes to cut the What was I to say ? |
| 15 | Much to the amusement of two American girls who stayed with us because they did n't know what this phrase was I mean they could n't have sort it out in the first place of what it meant . |
| 16 | Yeah that was I mean them , men , men were working like we was talking about a little while ago about head bags |
| 17 | If the others had realized just how totally in charge he was I think they would have been very jittery . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know , but if it was I think they 're going to get round to some really nasty questions . ’ |
| 19 | Er , we had a breeders ' meeting in October which was I enjoy them very much , I enjoy the the talk because it 's the first chance I get during the year when I can sit down and listen and I do n't have to worry about them generally , in another club , I do n't have to worry about minutes or anything , I just sit and listen and it 's great it , I really enjoy that . |
| 20 | [ There were ] several reasons for it : one of them was I thought they were too much alike . |
| 21 | The reason I joined was I thought they were going to get more money for me , not take it away . ’ |
| 22 | They were now joined by John Maud as permanent Secretary , who soon found that his Minister — not particularly well on educational matters , although still capable of righteous passion in the face of wrong — was content to learn rather than There was plenty to keep them busy . |
| 23 | The Purdey guns had been sold after Philip 's death , since there was nobody to use them . |
| 24 | So no one 'd ever know it was you had 'em all the time . |
| 25 | And er process was er match-guising so it was You know they were list They listened to three different people well th th they thought it was three people it was one person doing three ac the three accents er dialects sorry . |
| 26 | Heavens , how in creation was she to phone them to ask if they 'd got that part yet ? |
| 27 | And mine matey and bess be about me that was quite a long exclamation but it was something surprise them terribly , Oh bess be about me , just sort of , Oh God come to me help , sort of thing . |
| 28 | That was was something to stay them you see ? |
| 29 | whatever so there was something to keep them occupied and erm you know have a bag and as soon as they got fed up with that right you 'd get something else out to take their interest and |
| 30 | She was n't even with him , it was him brought them round himself . |