Example sentences of "[vb past] they [was/were] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in rebellion , as Mervyn James has noted of the Lincolnshire rebellions of 1536 against Henry VIII , the rebels maintained they were loyal to the king . |
| 2 | Fans turned up to gigs in ridiculous anoraks , sold fanzines with names like Frothy Pop and pretended they were carefree 18-year-olds . |
| 3 | These directions were in complete contradiction to his old habits and Alexander found they were successful in bringing about the change that he had sought for so long . |
| 4 | Initially both brothers found they were delighted with the arrangement . |
| 5 | Those left standing looked around sheepishly , as though , like Adam and Eve , they suddenly found they were naked and in the open . |
| 6 | In the prosperous 1980s many individuals found they were able to consider buying a second home in Europe , perhaps at first for holidays but later with retirement in view . |
| 7 | And er rock er dropped use that expression , they used they were both right at the at the foot of the quarry face or precipice or whatever somewhere around a hundred foot high and then th they blasted the top see and dropped a whole fall . |
| 8 | And I believed they were capable of murdering my mother , I honestly believe they would have murdered my mother — that 's why I signed the statement . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I was depressed , and when they arrived at my house and said , ‘ We 're very sorry to hear about your husband ’ , I believed they were genuine and let them in . |
| 10 | He switched on the radio and learned that temperatures of minus 6 were expected tonight ; the forecaster believed they were due for a ‘ cold snap ’ which could last at least a week . |
| 11 | Pictures of Lorna Lewis picnicking in pedal pushers , marrying in white and christening her baby daughters counterpointed these triumphs , and the couple , who lived their lives from the outside in , saw themselves looking happy in magazines and believed they were happy , although the combination of Hitchcock and post-natal depression persuaded Lorna to announce that she would take a year off to devote herself to her family . |
| 12 | But after carefully considering the plot and the situation , she accepted the raunchy bits , because she believed they were true to life . |
| 13 | Sometimes they would read our palms , finishing by giving them a little scratch that signified they were available — one scratch twenty douros , two scratches fifty douros and so on up the scale from an ‘ in and out ’ in the toilets or a ‘ short time ’ in a back room to a whole night in the brothel , with champagne and bath . |
| 14 | For years it seemed they were common enough to turn the competitive paradigm into something of little practical use . |
| 15 | I imagined they were old and slow reptiles , too far gone to chase a sprightly private detective around their pit , content just to chew placidly on a hunk of dead cow . |
| 16 | But when they came they were distressing and they particularly distressed the bishop responsible for healing ; because Christians are not supposed to quarrel , and quarrelling about clothes or tinklings or perfume looked like fanaticism or obsession with triviality . |
| 17 | ERCO developed several different variants of the Ercoupe , including a retractable version ( the Super Coupe ) ; a floatplane version ( the Sea Coupe — which was destroyed during spin-trials , fortunately without loss of CAA test pilot Dale Westfall 's life ) ; later a four-seat version which was 75 per cent completed ; and a twin-engined retractable version which was ninety per cent completed when the company declared they were bankrupt . |
| 18 | Its employees were afraid that the death of the expansionist Moghul Emperor Aurangzeb in 1707 would lead to disorder and disintegration , and events in the next half-century showed they were right . |
| 19 | SHOPPERS in London 's West End yesterday showed they were ready to defy the IRA bombing campaign . |
| 20 | Although U/V , ozone and protein skimmers were known , reference books often claimed they were unnecessary . |
| 21 | The women claimed they were unable to reach output targets set by management and , at the price offered , they were unable to make their ‘ wages ’ . |
| 22 | And he said to me , he 'd marked my , my sum and , and as it happened they was right , all of them . |
| 23 | When Eva arrived they were shocking . |
| 24 | They did not ever smile — but you could tell that when their empty eyes opened they were alive . |
| 25 | ‘ The Council indicated they were unwilling to give their sanction , ’ said Kelly . |
| 26 | At a meeting on Sunday , the 300 strikers indicated they were prepared to agree to management plans to resolve a dispute over lay-offs , but would return to work under protest at part of the package which included a wage freeze for 1993 and a cut in fringe benefits . |
| 27 | Compared to those of the century which followed they were slight . |
| 28 | It was only three nights later that we discovered they were tiny insects . |
| 29 | A Friday afternoon class not too prepared to believe that art was the most important thing that they could be doing at that time soon discovered they were wrong . |
| 30 | She had not yet spoken the words he dreaded , but he sensed they were imminent . |