Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] was [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They also broke into a similar car but appear to have lost interest in it when they realised it was a used model . |
| 2 | Not self-pity but exertion was what they told themselves was the first requirement , applying their skills to return to normal , to restore the status quo . |
| 3 | They guessed it was an emotional response to another womb death ; though , heaven knew , they would hardly have wanted a child , in their mid-forties , even if Charsky 's infertility could be miraculously cured . |
| 4 | A WANDERING busker with a record of 50 convictions for being drunk and disorderly was given a conditional discharge by Scarborough Magistrates yesterday after they heard he was a harmless nuisance . |
| 5 | Well I suppose th they felt it was the cheapest way of , of , of having them . |
| 6 | Bromley and Chislehurst bureaux handled so many disputes between neighbours that they felt there was a clear need for a specialist Neighbour Dispute Centre . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose they knew it was a friendly house . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ What I 'd like you to know is that when it was all over and Peter was back from America , the grave-diggers were down here on their bended knees begging him for forgiveness because they knew it was a nasty business and said had they known at the time they 'd have had nothing to do with it . ’ |
| 9 | The crowd were very patient because they knew it was a difficult game for us . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I went away and left him ’ , now even if they went , went away and left and , because they had to bring the children home , or if they went away and left him because they knew it was the best thing for everyone concerned , because the foreign office wants as many people , we all need as many people to get out of the area as possible ; their guilt will be huge . |
| 11 | They knew he was a disqualified driver . |
| 12 | I could n't see myself doing it so as I said I was n't going to make a fool of myself by putting my name as being nominated forward er as a candidate etcetera lose interest that 's the first thing that happened because they knew I was an outspoken bloke . |
| 13 | As they stood shining their torches down on the twisted bits of metal , they saw it was the mangled remains of a Uzi . |
| 14 | Perhaps they thought I was a wild man myself , in my strange home-made clothes of animals ' skins , and with my long hair and beard . |
| 15 | They thought he was a middle aged wet blanket . |
| 16 | From Steve and Paul 's point of view , I reckon they thought he was a real card and that it would be a big laugh having him around . |
| 17 | They thought he was an eccentric , a curmudgeon , a man with no time for humanity . |
| 18 | Couns Williams and Dixon confirmed that their view of Mr Major 's achievements and thoughts for the future differed from his , that they would not be sending donations and that they thought it was a complete cock-up . |
| 19 | you meant that they thought it was a good thing to do . |
| 20 | ‘ They thought it was a huge joke that they were IRA sympathisers working inside the Palace grounds . ’ |
| 21 | They said they had come to Britain because they did not need a visa and because they thought it was a free country . |
| 22 | ‘ They kept saying they thought it was a fine script , and I kept saying it was n't . |
| 23 | They thought it was an end-of-term joke , and that the aggressor was shooting blanks . |
| 24 | Children would normally go to London when they ran away from home , because they thought it was the best place to go to get a job , and where they could sleep easily . |
| 25 | No brickbats for that , for neither of them did it out of a sense of malice , but merely because they thought it was the right thing to do , and no doubt also because they believed , quite wrongly , that to instil a sense of guilt into me would ultimately be for my good , If I did what they thought was wrong then I was made to feel that someone , usually them , had suffered . |
| 26 | They wanted to get rid of her because they thought she was an interfering busybody . |
| 27 | The name they gave me was the old principessa 's , the prince 's mother , the kind one . |
| 28 | First , they proved she was the biological child of the Twiggs . |
| 29 | In the end they got an ambulance and rushed us to hospital and they said it was a good job they did . |
| 30 | They said it was an auspicious marriage moon : it was rising . |