Example sentences of "[vb past] they [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curtain which divided them was wearing thin . |
| 2 | The number of actual evictions was tiny — less than twenty per year — though when they occurred they were given widespread publicity and the fears that they raised went far beyond what their numerical significance might indicate . |
| 3 | A lot of those promoting the policies really believed in them , believed they were doing positive work . |
| 4 | When Putnam and Buchsbaum analysed the waveforms produced by each personality it seemed they were examining 60 people , instead of 20 . |
| 5 | cos the publicity is not just for visually impaired people or even for sponsors , it 's for theatres too when they 're seeing this and saying ooh , I noticed they 're doing that , this , this and this |
| 6 | But angry guests at the Britannia Hotel in Manchester claimed they were kept awake by the loud music until 5am . |
| 7 | Gilbert White was proud of his early cucumbers , cutting the first of 1753 on 5th April to take to his brother in London and when he discovered they were priced two shillings apiece in Town , arranged for a further thirteen to be conveyed on the coach from Selborne . |
| 8 | I heard they were getting great preview reaction . ’ |
| 9 | They rang the various commercial recorded lines which hinted they were offering sexual innuendo , which proved only to be glamour girls talking about dieting or holiday-making . |
| 10 | Later Justices of the Peace were appointed and as time passed they were given administrative as well as judicial duties to perform . |
| 11 | ‘ Hopefully we can stay in the there this time , ’ added Wood , mindful that Britain were forced into qualifying after defeat by unsung Finland meant they were relegated last year from the elite nations . |
| 12 | Out of the many false starts her life had made she felt they were witnessing this pure beginning that she would seize and make true . |
| 13 | Another neighbour , Dr Charles Wright , said : ‘ We knew they were having marital difficulties , but Jane would n't tell anyone why she wanted a divorce . ’ |
| 14 | This general argument was in the interests of large users of telecommunications who thought they were subsidizing small and local users . |
| 15 | Thought they were looking shifty . ’ |
| 16 | IF they thought they were breaking new ground by having the Institute of Directors host a discussion on the lack of women in the boardroom , then Donald Hardie , its Scottish director , and Henry Fairweather , Scottish & Newcastle 's personnel director who put the idea forward , were right — in more ways than one . |
| 17 | Cos I thought they were doing some . |
| 18 | The ‘ New Style ’ Calendar was adopted in Britain in 1752 but not without some opposition from some who thought they were losing several days of their life . |
| 19 | I thought they were chuffing hard up ? |
| 20 | He said they 're doing this as well . |
| 21 | But she said yes , she 'd noticed , but she said they are getting more out of this Johnny Briggs book than the other book . |
| 22 | Mrs Gales said they are to have temporary accommodation in the Water Park Community Centre . |
| 23 | They would go openly and honestly by day , he said , and pretended not to hear when Dorrainge said they were inviting all kinds of trouble . |
| 24 | You said they were building another garage did n't you ? |
| 25 | And erm he he said it 's stupid , he said they were given all this and it 's the homework it 's nothing to do with the revision you 've got to do in his the exams ! |
| 26 | The cold war may be over and dead , but spooks still rule OK — the US Central Intelligence Agency has warned more than 70 US defence , aerospace and financial companies that their industrial secrets are targets of French intelligence agents and diplomats , Defense Week reports , adding that the warning has caused Hughes Aircraft Co to drop plans to exhibit aerospace equipment at the Paris Air Show in June ; a 21-page French government document from about 1990 outlines US aerospace and defence corporate secrets in which French companies are interested , US officials say ; according to the Washington Post , Hughes officials said they were told one item the French memo lists is Hughes ' HS601 communications satellite ; French firms recently outbid Hughes to provide $258m in communications birds to Arab lands . |
| 27 | said to me about Pauline 's kids her three lads , not the baby like the two lads she said , oh she said er they came to play one night , or they came for tea or something and she goes to work at night you know , she said Paul was looking after them and she said , he said you could hear all this banging up and down the stairs , he said , bloody hell he said they were going mad , and I thought that 's what Tom and Hannah do when they come here , I said your two bang up and down like bloody anything I said that 's normal , you know for kids . |
| 28 | Had they been discussing any other evening he would not have been nearly so competent but the murder pinpointed the day . |
| 29 | What they might have heard however , had they been passing ten minutes later , even above the noise of the traffic and the raging of the wind , was a roar of someone in pain , a great and agonizing cry . |
| 30 | Had they been born 15 years earlier , Tumbleweed would probably wear loon pants and big belts and be called something like Satan 's Spaceship . |