Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What parties they 'd been to when they were young , and Tom Reynard was holding court for his friends and their children . |
| 2 | Writers and the books they produced were of the same type , full of antiquarian information and the archaic vocabulary that went with it . |
| 3 | So many places they had been to , so many people … |
| 4 | But perhaps the most crucial changes they made were to what Gordon referred to as the " macrostructure signalling " within the passage . |
| 5 | All the phone calls they received were for him , and Gina never had any mail . |
| 6 | But they only shots they encountered were from cameras . |
| 7 | Although the history of Scotmid is very much of local interest , the carriages they collected are of national importance . |
| 8 | The magnates ruled the localities by the end of the thirteenth century as political bosses , rather than as the petty princes they had been in the twelfth century . |
| 9 | We must remember , too , that Dissenters in the 18th century were not the political revolutionaries they had been in the 17th — there was a sense in which the rabid Nonconformity of one generation became the established respectability of the next , and commentators like Halevy have suggested that it was precisely the innate conservatism of the new dissent , Methodism , which helped stave off revolution in England in the early 19th century — a real opium of the people , in effect . |