Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [verb] [be] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | DETECTIVES investigating an alleged attack on two prisoners found unconscious in their cell were yesterday working on the theory they had been fighting each other . |
2 | Erm and people had been paying insurance i it changed then cos some of the farmers could go on their pension they 'd been paying this new scheme you see . |
3 | Asylum Aid , which represents immigrants who 're seeking refuge in Britain , says the last thing they need is to spend more time behind bars . |
4 | So what they 've done is they 've picked a way of doing but they kept chopping and changing the way they 've been doing that all the time . |
5 | The following table shows how the repayment period varied for each of the four main samples , once people knew all the cost information , depending on what order they had been shown each set of cost figures . |
6 | What on earth they had been doing all this time before being consumed with their mad dreams of conquest I do not know . |
7 | It was not the first time they had been told this . |