Example sentences of "[vb past] they be [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Checks revealed they were from the infected zone . |
| 2 | Checks revealed they were from the infected zone . |
| 3 | The last I heard you thought they were behind the whole thing ! ’ |
| 4 | He would n't eat them , cos he thought they were in the other potato . |
| 5 | Black labradors draped over chairs looked as ‘ buggered ’ as one of the ladies said they were after the four hour walk in the wake of their shooting husbands that morning . |
| 6 | ‘ England 's batting , fielding and — apart from Emburey and Edmonds — their bowling proclaimed the lack of practice and resolve on a slow pitch which , had they been in the right frame of mind , would have given them an even chance of levelling the series , ’ asserted Wisden . |