Example sentences of "was [adj] [conj] they [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I half-wished he could get away — though where would he go if he did ? — and was sorry when they caught him , though he seemed docile enough and stood calmly by his captor , who patted his neck as he threw his head up and down . |
| 2 | It was light when they reached their destination , a small house some miles outside Stockholm , but his condition was hardly any better . |
| 3 | Essentially , it was a calculative attitude and it was clear that they managed themselves in the sense that they saw work as being a means to their personal ends , which might be owning a boarding house , for example . |
| 4 | Mrs Lamport contacted the theatre museum in London and was delighted when they invited her to look around their archives . |
| 5 | They felt he was bored so they took him to training classes and Tricia said he 's an absolute natural . |
| 6 | The silence was oppressive as they made their way past mounds of earth , some with battered wooden crosses , others just forlorn heaps of clay . |
| 7 | It was fine while they had their own flats but when she moved in with Larry their sex life seemed to fade . |
| 8 | They were a decent lot and I was glad that they accepted me despite my anomalous position . |
| 9 | The street was busy as they made their way to Phrynius 's house , and they had to push folk aside to make headway . |
| 10 | It was on the biggest floating pontoon that was available and they towed it out into the lagoon in Venice , stuck a couple of pirate flags on the top and it was like a floating city seething with roadies ! |
| 11 | " I was amazed when they told me what I could bring . |
| 12 | I was amazed when they attacked me . |
| 13 | She was blue when they carried her in , but it looks as though the stone has gone down the right way . ’ |
| 14 | The palazzo was silent when they reached it . |
| 15 | There were several rooms , all in good condition , which seemed to have been rented out though I was aware that they remained my responsibility . |
| 16 | She was quiet as they made their way to the beach , which was every bit as packed as she had known it would be . |
| 17 | He 'd been sure Joe was dead when they left him . |
| 18 | She was dead when they picked her up . ’ |