Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] be [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I guess they realised she was telling lies , ’ said Rozanov . |
| 2 | ‘ I remember I was at a council meeting and they mentioned they were having difficulty letting an old shop on the end of Redcar pier , ’ said Mr Brook . |
| 3 | I , I think erm I think it may have been that er you , they assumed you 're lacking confidence because you were laughing at yourself so much when you were asking the questions . |
| 4 | It had started when they discovered she was meeting Rob , and they had asked for her promise that she would never see him again . |
| 5 | I had a notepad and I wrote poems on it when he was talking , so they thought I was taking letters . |
| 6 | BOURNEMOUTH gave Harry Redknapp a £100,000 golden handshake when he left the club because they thought he was quitting football , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 7 | When the subsequent television programme was broadcast , he lost a lot of business from his Protestant customers as they thought he was receiving funds from the IFI . |
| 8 | TV aerials : one of the drama groups did a sketch about James Logie Baird who invented the television , and the man who lodged in the room next door to him kept on seeing pictures flashing on his wall and they dragged him off to the lunatic asylum 'cos they thought he was seeing things , hallucinating . |
| 9 | Perhaps they thought he was doing research , he still wore his suits . |
| 10 | You know when they said they were going scuba diving at eight o'clock and did we want to go ? |
| 11 | But they accepted he was seeking help with his drinking problem and sentenced him to 18 months probation with a 3-year driving ban . |