Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb past] [pers pn] [was/were] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They never would have initiated it before , although they knew I was gay . |
| 2 | They had never seen me so they thought I was white . |
| 3 | And I quickened then , of course you dare n't go to work those days when once they knew you was pregnant it was a case of out . |
| 4 | If Nonconformists were slow to start , once they had they were eager to point out that while in England the Church outnumbered them ( as far as baptized members were concerned ) , in the Empire and America it was a different story as regards active members . |
| 5 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 6 | If they said I was mad it used to make me feel good . |
| 7 | If they knew you were friendly with someone , they would try their hardest to separate you . |
| 8 | What was to stop anyone just shooting him if they thought he was worthless to them ? |
| 9 | cos they said it was all to do with social status |
| 10 | I mean , my mate , he went to hospital cos they said he was allergic to something and they was putting him in a thing that only |
| 11 | They were a couple in their mid-fifties , I 'd say , but dressed like they thought they were twenty years younger . |
| 12 | Palmer , seconded by GLEB to work with NoS , felt many people were naively attracted to the pops because they thought they were easier to do . |
| 13 | Maybe it was because they thought it was dangerous to stand out in any way from the crowd , in case fate was tempted to drop a crate on their heads . |
| 14 | Another funny story , also off the record is that that lay in a drawer for two years because they thought it was controversial , they thought it was which I find hilarious . |
| 15 | The leaflet angered parents , staff and governors because they said it was full of misleading statements and the individuals who produced it had not identified themselves . |
| 16 | The tension was eased and they both laughed because they knew it was impossible , her getting tipsy and aggressive and him getting turned on by it . |
| 17 | They do n't tell you why they refuse you , but I think it was because they knew I was Black from my name . |
| 18 | But shoppers differed on whether they thought it was good news . |
| 19 | When they died it was more of the same . |
| 20 | But when they came they were distressing and they particularly distressed the bishop responsible for healing ; because Christians are not supposed to quarrel , and quarrelling about clothes or tinklings or perfume looked like fanaticism or obsession with triviality . |
| 21 | Unless they were very good actors , they sounded very convincing to me when they said they were innocent . |
| 22 | She wanted to know what cancer was and when they said it was terminal , she asked what that meant . |
| 23 | ‘ When they said he was fine it put my mind at ease but I was so relieved when they said he had no problems after the birth . ’ |
| 24 | When they emerged it was hotter than ever . |
| 25 | But when they did they were wonderful , and some of Charles 's happiest memories were of Italian or Chinese or Indian restaurants after hours in quiet provincial towns . |
| 26 | We saw few people , and when they appeared they were taller and darker than Egyptians to the north . |
| 27 | That is the information on which the police were acting when they decided it was reasonable to take this action . |
| 28 | This story had been used extensively by the Americans to drum up support against Gadaffi in the tame sections of the Western media even though they knew it was untrue . |
| 29 | There had been a few times , with my accent , I 'd been called names , but as soon as they knew I was Jewish I had a hundred mothers and brothers and fathers to take care of me . |
| 30 | As they left he was surprised to learn that his colleague 's appreciation of the proceedings had not been entirely lecherous . |