Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well in the Midland Bank and they were wearing them the last time you were there . |
| 2 | As Coleman 's real job was to file back-channel reports on the operations of DEA Nicosia , the DIA was hardly likely to have told Hurley that they were lending him a full-time agent . |
| 3 | When they were asked what the ( say ) ‘ egg ’ was ‘ really , really ’ the three-year-olds answered correctly that it was a stone , but when asked what the object ‘ looks like to your eyes ’ they also said ‘ stone ’ . |
| 4 | But , there are ways of checking , yo you can you can , obviously compare words and then perhaps you can er invariably time about the situations and draw your own conclusions as to whether they were telling you a lie earlier on . |
| 5 | They were sending us a message . ’ |
| 6 | Not one organisation wrote to the Home Secretary indicating they were supporting what the Government is now putting for the House . |
| 7 | Whether that was down to the powers that be I do n't know ; perhaps they were teaching me a lesson for daring to complain about where I was put . |
| 8 | I never did think they were primitive and they always told the truth ( except when they were teaching me the language ) and were a damn sight more trustworthy than some of the white men we had on the job . |
| 9 | Cos , they was telling us about the weave for the white people and they were showing us a booklet and the |
| 10 | But Lothar then extracted a further concession , " since he would not have , he said , in the share [ of the regnum ] they were offering him the wherewithal to make good to his own supporters that which they had lost . |
| 11 | So did did they think they were doing themselves a disservice then when they , maybe when they amalgamated , or when they became part of the boilermakers , or when the boilermakers started taking in various trades to approach the employers as a as a a black squad unit for wage rises and conditions and so on , or did they they Would they have preferred to have done it themselves do you think ? |
| 12 | It 's funny how er th trends change , but that was a was quite a common occurrence was that , men feeling ashamed of what they 'd got but trying er er in terms of these magazines giving them as if they were doing you a favour . |
| 13 | They were saying what a stupid series it was , how ridiculous the character was , and it would n't get beyond the first episode . |
| 14 | They were keeping it a secret and they were going to take him some place where they sold parrots . |
| 15 | Even after five years they were finding it a bit difficult in Oxford , you see , a bit sticky . |
| 16 | And , and of course needlework , but erm they were mainly the , I suppose they were giving you a good er grounding as they 'd call it in those days . |
| 17 | and one of them was doing them a halfpenny cheaper ! |