Example sentences of "they [verb] was [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When our informants were encouraged to think of their own society in terms of groups or categories , the most basic distinction they made was that of sex and age . |
| 2 | The context in which they arose was that of the capitalist world economy and imperialism ; hence there has also been , in many of these movements a substantial socialist influence , and in some countries , notably in China , nationalist movements have culminated in a social revolution . |
| 3 | The form of ‘ unofficial ’ war which they fought was more characteristic of brigandage and open robbery , but it would be wrong to assume that those who constituted the Companies were all , of necessity , men of criminal background or low degree . |
| 4 | ‘ What they found was this , ’ said Mr Goldring . |
| 5 | They argue further that it should be possible to eliminate the long-term effect by a procedure designed to extinguish a context — stimulus association — the procedure they used was that of giving a period of exposure to the context alone between initial exposure to the target and the conditioning phase . |
| 6 | The power of the platform 's weapons and the threat they posed was enough to give anyone pause for thought , but now they appeared somehow more lethal because they were unseen — concealed behind gunports which had been engineered to such fine tolerances that Rostov could detect no hint of them anywhere on the curved metal skin . |
| 7 | Yeah but what they ripped was all fat , all her fat , ooh |
| 8 | Yeah but what they ripped was all fat ! |
| 9 | All they felt was another thump as the lorry bounced gently off the far side of the road and down the lane that ran towards the railway . |
| 10 | Yeah , the got to actually change the starter motor erm I mean on the A D fifties and the two litre they I would sort of , its only a hundred and fifty cc , but the next biggest thing they did was stopping er , a sixteen hundred so quite a lot of those , but nine times out of ten all they did was another part , so |
| 11 | I doubt if they have any better cards in now , cos all they had was that |
| 12 | The last thing he wanted them to think was that , at fifteen , he was immature . |