Example sentences of "[vb past] they [was/were] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around 65% of people with meters found they were paying the same as or less than they did under the old system . |
| 2 | But at the same time many , like Cobbett in Rural Rides , believed they were tackling the wrong problem in the wrong way . |
| 3 | ‘ I heard they were planning a bone-marrow transplant . ’ |
| 4 | There had been rioting down by the docks , some said , but no one knew exactly where ; and Mrs Norris swore they were throwing the dead into mass graves , and half of them good Catholics without the last rites . |
| 5 | But I thought if that 's how they run a business So then when they , they moved house I realized they were using an ordinary saucepan to do their chips in and I had visions of fat boiling over and cos it 's gas so I bought them one a very nice deep fryer as a housewarming present . |
| 6 | THE Algarve is a mixture of the most expensive and exclusive holiday homes in Europe and monstrous concrete high-rise blocks built before the authorities realised they were killing the golden goose of tourism . |
| 7 | When customers contracted to have the XJ220 built they they thought they were getting an exclusive car . |
| 8 | At first they thought they were fighting a small local plan , but they 're now calling this road a ’ motorway by stealth ’ . |
| 9 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 10 | The addicts thought they were injecting a synthetic heroin , instead they had given themselves a permanent Parkinson-like condition . |
| 11 | All said they were experiencing a greater sense of control over their eating . |
| 12 | SYDNEY ( Reuter ) — Australia 's airline pilots said they were withdrawing the 30 per cent pay claim at the heart of a dispute that has disrupted domestic air services and were seeking instead an unspecified rise based on a 25 per cent increase in productivity . |
| 13 | Oh I think they said they were paying a hundred and ninety nine |
| 14 | They said they were offering a new short introductory course called the general SVQ in care . |