Example sentences of "they [vb past] it 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Well I suppose th they felt it was the cheapest way of , of , of having them . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose they knew it was a friendly house . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | The crowd were very patient because they knew it was a difficult game for us . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | As they stood shining their torches down on the twisted bits of metal , they saw it was the mangled remains of a Uzi . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | you meant that they thought it was a good thing to do . |
| 11 | ‘ They thought it was a huge joke that they were IRA sympathisers working inside the Palace grounds . ’ |
| 12 | They said they had come to Britain because they did not need a visa and because they thought it was a free country . |
| 13 | ‘ They kept saying they thought it was a fine script , and I kept saying it was n't . |
| 14 | They thought it was an end-of-term joke , and that the aggressor was shooting blanks . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In the end they got an ambulance and rushed us to hospital and they said it was a good job they did . |
| 18 | They said it was an auspicious marriage moon : it was rising . |
| 19 | They said it was an old grave , nobody knows who 's it is . |