Example sentences of "they [vb past] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They got a governmen' like they theenk this one real country excep' all they got is couple hun'red thousan' people . ’ |
| 2 | The answer they devised is called Compact Disc Interactive ( CD-I ) . |
| 3 | These and many other factors are of great importance to practising physicians , but to do justice to them and to the controversies which they provoked is beyond the purpose of this book . |
| 4 | Whether workfare would provide other factors they identified is less certain . |
| 5 | I 'll need dog-handlers immediately and they 'll have to be sent out to Pontino , there 's no need for them to check in here first — the girl they released is in shock . |
| 6 | When they hit the moon part of the moon they hit is bright and the part of the moon that er they do n't hit |
| 7 | The partners remain sanguine about speculation that their tenure of the company they founded is coming to an end . |
| 8 | Acquaintances say it is hard to believe the same charming woman they knew is now a convicted IRA terrorist . |
| 9 | Much of the Aberdeen they saw is now no more . |
| 10 | What , what they thought is that all the ones that |
| 11 | What they thought is because he 's assessing them and she 's , they 're assessing us while he 's assessing them . |
| 12 | As it was , I believe my judgement proved quite sound on the question of timing ; the fact that things turned out as they did is entirely attributable to an error of judgement in another direction altogether . |
| 13 | To understand why Draper and White wrote as they did is not of itself sufficient to impugn their conclusions . |
| 14 | I think in America what they did is actually people went out on patrol there . |
| 15 | What they did is took half and used it to reduce their contributions and it was a large reduction , it was a reduction from twelve to currently five per cent . |
| 16 | So why they did it Well why they did it is clear er to make slightly bigger hall , but why they took the risk they did is not so clear . |
| 17 | Ah but no what they did is somebody else marks them while the the next round was going on for |
| 18 | I thought , would n't it be good though if they , if what they did is on that day we went they pick everyone who wanted like the jobs yeah |
| 19 | What they discussed is policies and personalities — is he , is she , a good administrator , a good person . |
| 20 | An example they gave is : The S was sleeping on his stomach . |
| 21 | What they said is not recorded , but memory has supplied subsequent writers with various versions . |
| 22 | Now what they 're saying is that , what they said is activist action learn best when they get the opportunity to experience new sort of problems , situations , opportunities when they 're doing something quite new when they 're sort of involved in very much you know here and now activities when they 're sort of like business games , exercises , role plays , team tasks that they can sort of get you know really get involved with themselves then there 's lots of action and they 're quite short and sharp , so can move on to something else . |
| 23 | Yesterday they called , I called them in the morning and they said is your er , you know at one at something , I said no , I do n't , I do n't really know , I did n't know there was one at one . |
| 24 | But I think they make a bit idle because they knew what they knew what I w You know I was able to serve the what they wanted is n't it . |