Example sentences of "[verb] they [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Magellan captured a number of these immense people — one pair by the crud trick of showing them leg-irons and insisting that the proper way to carry them was to allow them to be locked around their ankles . |
| 2 | Instead , he claimed they were incorporating them as part of a total information technology system . |
| 3 | Only it seems they was callin' him by a different name , or names even . |
| 4 | HE : Anyone would think they were cutting it for coal-heavers ( pause ) or stonebreakers . |
| 5 | That was a great week because they felt they were getting it for nothing , till it come to the end of the quarter and then they had to pay it . |
| 6 | I knew they were discussing me in private , but I was seriously alarmed when I discovered what they had decided . |
| 7 | They called out our names and we had to follow where we think they were calling us from . |
| 8 | I think I think there was som some sent to Chester for example , I think they were doing something in the cathedral in Chester . |
| 9 | They swallowed it and said they were charging me with handling stolen goods . |
| 10 | Nearly half said Mr Clinton lacked the honesty and integrity to be President , and just over half said they were backing him with reservations . |