Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were n't air crew , for God 's sake , they did n't join up to fly . |
| 2 | Well they were n't York stone then were they ? |
| 3 | They thought they were probably road maintenance men from the Cajamarca region . ’ |
| 4 | They were originally Wiltshire country people , the grandmother and mother being both illiterate , and the grandfather a blacksmith . |
| 5 | Well now I , Bull 's Eye Lamps , that we carried at night , they were merely paraffin oil lamps . |