Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [conj] they " in BNC.

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1 She stared down at her plate , wishing she knew what to answer , wishing she were somewhere else but they never let her out of their sight .
2 And then the old keeper used to come round and see that we were all right and they 'd be there till the following day and carry on for about three or four weeks you see .
3 Visiting rights have the great advantage of being optional , not obligatory , so Christopher and Jane were only together because they wanted to be .
4 They were so still that they might have been made of granite .
5 The " labouring poor " covers the majority who did work and who were less than comfortably off , but the truly poor were usually so because they could not work or could not get enough work , while many skilled journeymen earned more than small-holding freeholders .
6 They were nearer tonight than they had ever been .
7 Their chances of success were far less where they were relegated to the position of enactor or mere facilitator , as some were .
8 Many said they were there simply because they would n't be able to pay .
9 They were there only because they 'd been stopped at gunpoint from going any farther — by the Turkish army , a key NATO ally of the US and Britain .
10 Winter sweet , viburnum , and witch hazel were all in flower ; the air was so still that they could hear the distant gurgle of the river from down in the valley .
11 I suppose they thought it was all right because they 'd be coming back . ’
12 It was only later that they discovered that the mysterious column , which in the heat haze had looked like twenty-five Lancia trucks , had in fact been Timpson 's patrol .
13 Yet had the visitors been England or Australia he may well not have been able to resist the temptation , and this was only partly because they were the leading lights in world cricket ; there was also the racial aspect , in that he passionately wanted to prove that a team of black players led by a black captain was the equal of , if not better than , the white teams .
14 His find was still there when they stripped him at the mortuary . ’
15 Before , we were just listening to everybody else telling us to keep on playing and carry on doing this and that , but that was really just because they were afraid we were going to be a flash in the pan .
16 This was as near as they dared to approach to avoid the risk of fire damage to the vehicles .
17 Their boat was now downwind and they had to tack .
18 Mind you it was that early so they might not have had everything sort of on the go and stuff .
19 There was now a thick fog and the night was very still as they hurried through the deserted streets of the nearby town .
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