Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's so , I mean , wake up Christmas morning and they put a tray out , the first thing they do on , the last thing at night , Christmas Eve they put a big tray out and on the tray they got it 's a called and they 're like chocolate biscuits , they 're like biscuits , right , and that gets with every member of the house , say there 's ten in that house , that that gets lined round the outside of the tray , right , and then inside of that 'll be now a circle of the wine , and then they have like whatever drink they got in the middle and the first thing that happens Christmas Eve morning is they get up and that gets poured and the tray goes round , if you sit down |
| 2 | I hope they realized it was a joke . |
| 3 | But as former Darlington and Stockton Times typesetter Malcolm and housewife Judy walked into Sadberge Village Hall on Saturday night they realised they were the guests of honour at a surprise party . |
| 4 | ‘ They also broke into a similar car but appear to have lost interest in it when they realised it was a used model . |
| 5 | ‘ And as soon as they realised it was an emergency , the offending drain was fitted with a plug . ’ |
| 6 | But after checking his credentials they found he was a prize chump — forklift driver Nigel Mansell , from Byran-cum-Sutton , West Yorks . |
| 7 | Only occasionally did villagers become impatient , thinking he was only pretending not to understand — they believed he was an ancestor in a white skin who was obsessed with privacy simply to maintain his secret . |
| 8 | At times they imagined they were a disembarked army and went to Santa Cruz or Machico , which they bombarded and took . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They guessed it was an emotional response to another womb death ; though , heaven knew , they would hardly have wanted a child , in their mid-forties , even if Charsky 's infertility could be miraculously cured . |
| 12 | ‘ They claimed it was a pet , so we did n't confiscate it . ’ |
| 13 | On July 10th the Guardian reported the death of 80 sheep ( no not Tories ) in an Army mortar attack … they claimed it was an accident . |
| 14 | The Pushkin police officers had intended to take her to St Petersburg police station when they discovered she was a foreigner . |
| 15 | A WANDERING busker with a record of 50 convictions for being drunk and disorderly was given a conditional discharge by Scarborough Magistrates yesterday after they heard he was a harmless nuisance . |
| 16 | They decided it was an accident , but I did n't agree . |
| 17 | Nothing could have been better designed to ram home to the Scots that monarchy as they understood it was a thing of the past . |
| 18 | They felt they were the first two up in the whole world , like Adam and Eve . |
| 19 | Historically , people appear to have been more philosophical about inability to conceive and bear a child , and most childless people did not question themselves about it , unless they felt it was a kind of punishment . |
| 20 | Well I suppose th they felt it was the cheapest way of , of , of having them . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ What I 'd like you to know is that when it was all over and Peter was back from America , the grave-diggers were down here on their bended knees begging him for forgiveness because they knew it was a nasty business and said had they known at the time they 'd have had nothing to do with it . ’ |
| 23 | The crowd were very patient because they knew it was a difficult game for us . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose they knew it was a friendly house . ’ |
| 25 | The simplest account for the relationship between risk and recall in this study was that subjects recalled the risky situations because they knew it was an experiment about risk , this knowledge could have affected their performance both at encoding and at retrieval . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | They knew she was a doctor now , and Mandy had already warned her that nobody would want a doctor serving them their beer . |
| 28 | That had been a great and memorable moment ; that was when they knew he was a man of substance . |
| 29 | They knew he was a disqualified driver . |
| 30 | And he maintained he was sacked on the direct orders of the RUC because they knew he was a security risk . |