Example sentences of "they [vb past] be the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He exhorted his readers never to omit the prayers for the Sovereign in the Communion Service , because ‘ the county in which they lived was the seat of the late rebellion ’ and ‘ the tares of sedition have been industriously sown among you and you have the greater reason to pray that you may be firm in your allegiance . |
| 2 | And the logic they sought was the logic of sexual difference and male superiority . |
| 3 | What they resurrected was the idea of orgiastic music , a feast of sound — something that contravened both punk 's parsimonious and anorexic tenets of economy and tightness , and pop soul 's belief that The Song is best served by understated , deferential ‘ backing ’ . |
| 4 | And these wishy-washy types celebrated what they believed was the end of a bothersome cult . ’ |
| 5 | We chucked their livers into a large barrel fastened to the mast ; these were sold for cod-liver oil and the money they fetched was the perquisite of the crew . |
| 6 | While the Poles were largely indifferent to the internal problems of the city — which they reasoned were the result of German agitation and would never have arisen if the Versailles politicians had made some more workable arrangement — they were very sensitive to any disturbance in their trade through the Corridor and the Baltic ports . |
| 7 | They described the person they claimed was the agent in sufficient detail to direct Derek 's attention towards a particular individual . |
| 8 | Charlie pushed it open slowly , expecting a volley of bullets to follow but the loudest sound they heard was the screech of the hinges . |
| 9 | All they needed was the proof , and when a photographer hired by a down-market Sunday newspaper caught the Princess of Wales emerging from her friend Kate Menzies 's mews house during the early hours of the morning with David Waterhouse , and fooling around in the quiet road , they thought they had it . |
| 10 | The only thing they lost was the toss of the coin that decided they would play at Turf Moor again on Monday . |
| 11 | This they knew was the work of wolves . |
| 12 | What they contested was the presumption that moral reform could be achieved through a centralized programme of sanitary intervention which reinforced the sexual oppression of women . |
| 13 | The Germans are said to have shot 100 French hostages in reprisal for this sinking which they thought was the work of the Resistance . |
| 14 | In the pub , after a meeting devoted to tasting home-made wine , Nigel and Simon were asked what they thought was the basis of conservatism . |
| 15 | An inquest in Lancaster had earlier been told that by the time the information was received , Lancashire Police had spent £250,000 investigating what they thought was the murder of John Threlfall , 18 . |
| 16 | Many of these people were able to escape before the town was overwhelmed , but about 2,000 died ; some because they elected to remain in what they thought was the safety of their houses , some because they left their escape until it was too late , some because they were too burdened down with prized possessions to move quickly enough , and some because they were just plain unlucky . |
| 17 | He remembered staring out from the nest site on a clear cold morning and seeing a line of grey-blue a few miles to the north which they said was the sea . |
| 18 | My legs were steadier than they had been the night before but they still dithered weakly . |
| 19 | The empty dishes , china , and uneaten food had been taken away for examination , so the sight and smell were somewhat more palatable than they had been the day before . |
| 20 | The purpose of this and of other victim studies was to elicit from respondents whether they had been the victim of a crime , and if so , which types of crime and whether they had reported it to the police . |
| 21 | The only protection they had was the car itself . |
| 22 | All they carried was the car 's normal spare wheel and its tool kit . |