Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said , no you write and he 'll , she 'll write back , you see but , and he went out to France and he was killed in three months and and his name , so they told me was on the er , on the board at er . |
| 2 | They guessed she was on a bad trip and moved in swiftly before she could hurt herself . |
| 3 | The cap they showed us was for an elephant , a massive thing . |
| 4 | By the end of 1987 , they felt they were in a position to become more than just learned advisors , and actually released records on their own Reception Records . |
| 5 | But I just said that it was for the Welsh Office cos I thought if er they knew it was for a Authority you know ? |
| 6 | They knew she was on the Union Committee and they were afraid of her . |
| 7 | Now they thought they were in a new thing in nineteen fifties when they brought in one man operated buses but they were n't . |
| 8 | The Magharba leaders resisted this : they thought they were in the majority , and feared that after such a confrontation the Zuwaya might muster more voters for a second encounter . |
| 9 | Well erm erm had a word with erm who was about oh fourth in line in the erm education hierarchy in those days and erm then spoke to who was the Chief Education Officer and er , I think they were a bit erm , bit apprehensive about employing a blind typist because erm it was something that they had never had any experience of but in the end they thought it was worth a try and er especially after supporting me at the College and erm also perhaps they had in mind that many of the erm employees would be leaving if war broke out and erm , in fact by that time war had probably started |
| 10 | The training officer group were more likely to refer to joint or group decisions , none of them specifically mentioned the need for central approval , few mentioned relevancy to post as being essential ( or if they did it was within a wider framework of reference than relevance to post alone ) , and they were more likely to specify that the needs of the service and the needs of the individual were both taken into account . |
| 11 | They seldom dated their letters and when they did it was by the year of the king 's reign . |
| 12 | ‘ They said it was for the best , ’ said Gloria . |
| 13 | They said it was like a box you know , and they could up to tremendous heights , putting I do n't know how many layers . |
| 14 | They said I was like a piece of steel … ’ |