Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
2 | Or maybe , the other ends got hot while I was a-tapping them on the anvil . ’ |
3 | ‘ I knew I was leaving them with the basis of a good side and a first-rate manager in Nigel Best . |
4 | ‘ I knew I was leaving them with the basis of a good side and a first-rate manager in Nigel Best . |
5 | Coming back to the council last year , some time in May last year , and er I was telling them about the noise and the situation , at the time . |
6 | I have to pay 80p for one piece of Vallis , Cabomba etc at any of the fish centres in this part of the world and £1.50 each if I was to buy them in the little pots . |
7 | I was hitting them on the head and they were all falling on the floor . |
8 | I was putting them round the back and sat thinking about it and I said well we ai n't got no peat , so we had to rush over to Hetford and bought some very good peat , and erm , by the time I got back and started digging hole for them to go in |
9 | Gaitskell became excited at the prospect and instructed me with great firmness that as soon as I had received the ‘ discovered ’ documents I was to show them to no one but to come straight to him , so that he should be the first person to know who the culprit was or what information was available that would lead to the culprit 's identity . |
10 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |