Example sentences of "they [verb] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they lacked was Mr Pozsgay 's eloquence , access to the media and the ability to relate these lofty ideas to the man and woman in the street . |
| 2 | She questioned whether what they lacked was not ruthless ambition . |
| 3 | I am sufficiently egotistical to believe that one of the reasons why they failed was that I was not present . |
| 4 | scene which they revealed was an ugly one . |
| 5 | They were protected from enemies by their isolation and the land they cultivated was boundlessly fertile . |
| 6 | It merits the longest entry devoted to any one person in Boswell 's account , and no more than two sentences in Johnson 's : the person they met was Flora Macdonald , who had helped Bonnie Prince Charlie to escape after Culloden . |
| 7 | The last time they met was in the old second division at the county ground . |
| 8 | GRANT took Tottenham in 1987 with a 4,141 majority ; he was already notorious for his comments made after the Broadwater Farm riots in 1985 — ‘ the youths around here believe the police were to blame for what happened on Sunday and what they got was a bloody good hiding ’ . |
| 9 | Officers employed in northern Europe , where much of the navy was inevitably disposed , had little patronage at their disposal , and what they got was obtained only after a battle with the Board of Admiralty . |
| 10 | Indeed , all they got was a great amount of sympathy and a £1000 bonus ! |
| 11 | The first pay they got was two the the first I remember people gillying for the Stenness Hotel , their pay was two and six and a gill of whisky . |
| 12 | And it was good whisky they got was too new made you see . |
| 13 | All they got was the usual complacent , superficial parroting of the empty nonsense about commitments and guarantees . |
| 14 | All they got was embarrassed . |
| 15 | I 'm glad to say they all finished as friends over a glass of beer … but there were no cheers for the Tredworth rugby team from Gloucester on saturday … they were hoping for a fairy tale in their Provincial Cup Semi-Final … sadly what they got was a horror story |
| 16 | But when they arrived what they got was far from a welcome home . |
| 17 | Regrettably , last night 's audience was a meagre one , but what they got was impressive , to say the least . |
| 18 | But er the extra money they got was no worth taking the job . |
| 19 | Think it was some margarine or All they got was the , you know , |
| 20 | The first one they got was erm |
| 21 | The area in which they lived was overcrowded and unsalubrious and if there was rather less unemployment than in the north of England , that was about all that could be said for it . |
| 22 | He exhorted his readers never to omit the prayers for the Sovereign in the Communion Service , because ‘ the county in which they lived was the seat of the late rebellion ’ and ‘ the tares of sedition have been industriously sown among you and you have the greater reason to pray that you may be firm in your allegiance . |
| 23 | The only place they lived was in the northern mountains , the Greshorns . |
| 24 | Some collectors used to visit the museum weekly to check up on how the art they lent was being shown , or if it was shown at all ’ , says one long-time curator . |
| 25 | The first thing they realised was that they would have to slow things down . |
| 26 | A few minutes passed as they congratulated Cara on what they realised was something of a very large achievement . |
| 27 | Between the bouts of keen pain a curious life took possession of his brain , a life in which kings and queens floated on the water and white-clad saracens rode up and down before a cage in which was a crowned lion , and then , suddenly , the cage was empty and the saracens were knights in armour and the water on which they rode was a mountain like a tree in which birds nested and which burst into flames and was the phoenix ; and somewhere was the Holy Grail for which he reached out in vain , and a jewelled sword , and a unicorn that spoke but said nothing . |
| 28 | When our informants were encouraged to think of their own society in terms of groups or categories , the most basic distinction they made was that of sex and age . |
| 29 | ‘ All that they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor . ’ |
| 30 | The question they asked was : |