Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I once met an aged man who had waged a single-handed crusade to get the Fellowship to change its official line that Dr Manette 's house ( A Tale of Two Cities ) is based on the old Carlisle House , Soho Square , in favour of No 1 Greek St. He said he felt prouder than if he had won the Nobel prize on the day they admitted they were in error . |
| 2 | In the end , they agreed it was in everyone 's interest to carry on working , and the show was not threatened . |
| 3 | The Cherry and Whites are used to winning against Nottingham … last time they played it was for league points in the first division … |
| 4 | There , gazing out from the balconies and look-out points , they imagined they were on board frigates and corvettes and that they had cannons and decks . |
| 5 | She said , no you write and he 'll , she 'll write back , you see but , and he went out to France and he was killed in three months and and his name , so they told me was on the er , on the board at er . |
| 6 | The first time they came it was for ‘ Bob-a-job ’ week , but now they just come . |
| 7 | They ate what was in front of them . |
| 8 | But every other factory agreed to take so many each of the men , so they 'd nobody be at , lose their job . |
| 9 | They guessed she was on a bad trip and moved in swiftly before she could hurt herself . |
| 10 | They claimed they were on their way to UN assembly points inside Namibia , which do not exist . |
| 11 | The cap they showed us was for an elephant , a massive thing . |
| 12 | At first , customers kept their mouths shut not just because they signed nondisclosure agreements , but because they figured it was in their interest to do so . |
| 13 | One of the things they taught me was to be independent of doctrine , for their separate advice to me was contradictory . |
| 14 | They 'd found out MacQuillan was buying guns for terrorists , so they decided he was to be stopped . ’ |
| 15 | erm , there 's on certain parts of ah what they put has shown they they 've understood what was in that part of the diary like in the exercises relating this morning to or to learning like with the Roman numerals and the other thing they shown that they understood what was in that context , but then on erm when you get later on it 's just er |
| 16 | Naturally they took what was on offer , and no doubt thoroughly enjoyed the experience — just as a later Scottish politician , James VI , did when he collected £58,000 in pensions from the notoriously parsimonious Elizabeth , without feeling any need to deviate from the path which suited him and his kingdom , and without being regarded as particularly unprincipled . |
| 17 | By the end of 1987 , they felt they were in a position to become more than just learned advisors , and actually released records on their own Reception Records . |
| 18 | ‘ They knew we were with Plummer . ’ |
| 19 | When Victor and I gave them the slip at Victoria station they knew we were onto them . |
| 20 | The next thing they knew they were on their way to a Children 's Home run by nuns about twenty miles away : " It was nice and clean , I had a bath and went to bed . |
| 21 | At least then they knew they were in trouble . |
| 22 | But I just said that it was for the Welsh Office cos I thought if er they knew it was for a Authority you know ? |
| 23 | They knew she was on the Union Committee and they were afraid of her . |
| 24 | If they knew I was under that sort of pressure , they 'd stop giving me rides altogether . |
| 25 | But I like to think they knew I was to be married . |
| 26 | As soon as they knew I was in prison they were trying to get involved and everything . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm sorry , David , but when they knew you were at Conway House , that decided the matter . ’ |
| 28 | and they kept I was in stiff I could hardly move them I mean if I touched them now I mean that one 's not too bad I ca n't touch that one very much when you can see them , my scars and all there If I touch that , that 'll be very gingerly ach aches like hell ! |
| 29 | The Magharba leaders resisted this : they thought they were in the majority , and feared that after such a confrontation the Zuwaya might muster more voters for a second encounter . |
| 30 | Now they thought they were in a new thing in nineteen fifties when they brought in one man operated buses but they were n't . |