Example sentences of "[pron] they [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The African National Congress condemned the attack which they said was by shadowy forces , intent on encouraging violence in the volatile black Ciskei homeland . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Some felt a leaping in their spirits at the moment when the announcement was made at the AGM , something which they knew was from God . |
| 4 | They were overheating in the Med , which they claimed was like swimming in spit . |
| 5 | Since the existing rules applied to a serf-based society , suspending them implied that the social order on which they depended was to be altered . |
| 6 | The approach which they employed was by using hard systems which are capable of specification , analysis and manipulation in a more or less rigorous and quantitative manner ; soft systems which are not tractable by mathematical methods ; by exploring examples ; and by combining interdisciplinary approaches by reviewing the dilemmas which confront man 's intervention in natural systems . |
| 7 | But Merseyside Labour MPs yesterday denounced the verdict which blamed Mr Evans of Wigan who they said was under the orders of the starter , Captain Keith Brown . |
| 8 | All of the sample of Rowdies were able to plot very accurately where they had stood on the terraces over the last few years , who they had been with , and where they expected to be in the future . |
| 9 | They 'd been out and er I do n't know who they 'd been with like but he must of had a bit to drink . |
| 10 | It was a tradition that avoided any real contemplation of the root causes of German unease ; their preference for ‘ action ’ , rested secure in the knowledge that everything they did was for the good of the nation , sanctioned by law and sanctioned by the German people . |
| 11 | ‘ Everything they did was for their business . |
| 12 | Those whom they encountered were for the most part leading precarious lives ; they lacked the leisure , the mental energy , even the vocabulary , for speculation about the great issues of heaven and hell , death and judgement . |
| 13 | Next morning the stage manager took great pleasure in informing them they had been to a women-only club . |
| 14 | What they 'd been over there to a stallion ? |
| 15 | He used to sort of let the girls know what they 'd been at . |
| 16 | Some of his male colleagues boasted about how they 'd felt with various women , raising an arm to show what they 'd been like . |
| 17 | But what they produced were at best permanent monuments of erudition on which we still draw , and at worst giant-sized pamphlets which are now read , if at all , only for their interest as literature . |
| 18 | She knew very well what they had been at ; she and Patten had been the same , when they were young . |
| 19 | This was a soft seduction of her senses , a sensuous reminder of what they had been to each other and what they had lost . |
| 20 | After that , the possibilities for the disturbed were very much what they were to remain until the introduction of the major tranquillisers — and indeed what they had been from Roman times . |
| 21 | 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 |