Example sentences of "[noun sg] they were [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was frantically doing this and I showed up at rehearsal thinking they were going to do all the songs , but we did n't do anything until two or three days later ! |
| 2 | It was as if by drinking from the cold spring they were hoping to appease some spirit of the place so that it would n't turn unfriendly to their studies ; but they could not settle as they tried to read and make notes . |
| 3 | One day they were invited to visit some old friends who had moved to Hereford . |
| 4 | Oh yeah the gourmet chef was excellent , yeah , the way they were trying to integrate these two recipes into one show |
| 5 | And going on from that surely we argue that the May the fourth directive came about or certainly was , was put out as this is what the peasants three times the peasants had demanded land return I E they were in advance of the Party , they were more radical , they , they were , in a way they were saying look this , this rent reduction is not enough we want a much stronger programme , we actually want the land reform . |
| 6 | There was no way they were going to let this game go . |
| 7 | But there was no way they were going to drag that out of me . |