Example sentences of "[Wh det] 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 | What they 'd been over there to a stallion ? |
| 8 | He used to sort of let the girls know what they 'd been at . |
| 9 | Some of his male colleagues boasted about how they 'd felt with various women , raising an arm to show what they 'd been like . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She knew very well what they had been at ; she and Patten had been the same , when they were young . |
| 12 | This was a soft seduction of her senses , a sensuous reminder of what they had been to each other and what they had lost . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |