Example sentences of "[vb past] they be [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Whether I understood them was another matter .
2 I mean , yeah , I mean , knew they 're that price .
3 Well he knew they were all slate quarry workers , and that 's how he went on to them .
4 He knew they were all slate quarry workers and they were prepared to work the slate again .
5 So I thought they were all part of a jokey game .
6 I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them .
7 ‘ I thought they were another company , personal enemies .
8 At first he thought they were some sort of exotic underwater flippers , scaly , silvery , tailing away to black ends with claw-like projections .
9 Boro will be among the clubs stepping up their recruitment as their mid-table finish in North One proved they are some way short of promotion standard .
10 Dot said they were all Al and tip-top .
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