Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] they [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were using it for drunk driving offenders and repeat traffic offenders , not so much because I felt they were the only people who were appropriate for it , but because we wanted to make sure we started with a group who were not likely to get into major trouble should the project not work out . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought they were the only party that could rule Namibia . |
| 3 | We are we we 've got an amp meter and a volt meter and I thought they were the same thing you see . |
| 4 | I said they were the last pair of my nylons , memorial to my relationship with Blanche . |
| 5 | The reason we did those mailings is because of the warning that we had they were the only mailings available by the way . |
| 6 | They felt they were the first two up in the whole world , like Adam and Eve . |
| 7 | And er they thought they were the big cheese you see , th th th those who worked there . |
| 8 | He thought they were the local militia . |
| 9 | He said they were the self-indulgent ramblings of a patches-on-the-elbow peasant , and who the hell did he think he was anyway ? |