Example sentences of "'s [adj] they were " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's conceivable they were soldiers . |
| 2 | It 's likely they were given work constructing the gardens . |
| 3 | Kids , that 's all they were and in need of a bit of looking-after . |
| 4 | Or , at least , she hoped that 's all they were . |
| 5 | That was part of your job as a watchman , you have to all the little paraffin lamps , that 's all they were , sometimes they 'd keep alight and sometimes they would n't , they 'd go out but there was there was never much erm work at night times on the river , might be an old barge . |
| 6 | See during the war we had , we had a lot of er minesweepers down here and they were all in these trawlers , fishing trawlers that 's all they were and they used to go minesweeping off the coast , from here to Yarmouth and then , and Yarmouth and Lowestoft they had theirs , they used to like meet and cos they used to be out four days minesweeping and in four days . |
| 7 | But that 's all they were then . |
| 8 | and that 's all they were fasten on with that sort of stuff |
| 9 | Two pound eight ounces , that 's all they were . |