Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You stopped believing in Father Christmas , tooth fairies , paternal omniscience and in the sort of over-the-top crazy heart-thudding happy-ever-after love they told you was the ideal . |
| 2 | Because the senior members on the flats that have been living here since it was put up , when they came to live on complex , they reckoned it was the place to come and live . |
| 3 | Well I suppose th they felt it was the cheapest way of , of , of having them . |
| 4 | They felt it was the duty of America to stop the world toppling to Communism and did everything they could to stop Ho Chi Minh . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | As they stood shining their torches down on the twisted bits of metal , they saw it was the mangled remains of a Uzi . |
| 7 | We found out that they thought he was the captain giving out safety instructions because we were about to sink . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The unionists may say OK , but they would desert and rebel if they thought it was the beginning of a united Ireland . ’ |
| 11 | We have all come across women who had children by accident , because they thought it was the thing to do , or because they wanted to qualify for Council accommodation , and we have all come across women who expected someone else to do everything for them . |
| 12 | Ah , they thought it was the cleaning head . |
| 13 | Apparently they thought it was the cleaning heads by the , the heads of it , I do n't know , I know nothing about it . |
| 14 | The name they gave me was the old principessa 's , the prince 's mother , the kind one . |
| 15 | First , they proved she was the biological child of the Twiggs . |
| 16 | First of all they said she was the villain . |