Example sentences of "they [verb] [be] [vb pp] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently the Solstice has attracted thousands of New Age travellers , but they 've been banned this year by the same injuctions that now govern Castlemorton common in Worcestershire , where an illegal festival just over a year ago attracted 20,000 travellers . |
| 2 | They had been seated each side of the blazing fire in the drawing-room , but now Martin had sprung to his feet , his voice raised as he repeated , ‘ Done for me ! |
| 3 | On the following day , Stanley told the Finance Committee of the India Council that they had been offered this site , and pointed out the advantages of buying the land from the Government rather than obtaining a special Act of Parliament . |
| 4 | The following table shows how the repayment period varied for each of the four main samples , once people knew all the cost information , depending on what order they had been shown each set of cost figures . |
| 5 | Because they had been told that research shows that the teaching of grammar restricts the imagination , imposing a strait-jacket of conventions , they did not realise that it all depends on what kind of grammar is taught and in what contexts . |
| 6 | When people thought that the difficulty had been the credit firm 's fault , about half said that the company had made some mistake — such as claiming that arrears were owed , when in fact payments were up to date ; about half said they had been refused some type of credit which they had applied for . |
| 7 | Handsome , smiling and smartly suited , he was an immediate hit , all the more so when their mother told them that they had been married that morning . |
| 8 | Mr Andrews believes they have been accepted this year because they are running as a family team . |
| 9 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |