Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , they wuz English shit . |
| 2 | and to St Giles and they heard about me and they offered me a month 's holiday and they were complete strangers and they gave me a month 's holiday |
| 3 | They were ungainly vehicles with double-flight stairs and short canopies , but they had top covers and Brill 22E bogies , which were more reliable than the Brush bogies under their own cars . |
| 4 | They were flowered sheets , brightly flowered sheets which sometimes slipped about on the plastic mattress cover which had never been removed . |
| 5 | However , if Target pays dividends to Newco outside the group income election , Newco can elect to set off its losses against such dividends as if they were taxable income ( see s242 ) . |
| 6 | They were muscle-bound men covered in scars and tattoos . |
| 7 | No they were nineteen quid . |
| 8 | The landlady looked suspiciously at the notes he proffered and asked if they were Belgian currency . |
| 9 | They were keen members of the Four Marks Community Care group , driving elderly residents to luncheon clubs and to medical appointments . |
| 10 | They were keen Chapel folk and used to bring masses of flowers to Sunday School Anniversary . |
| 11 | They were radical proposals that specified in considerable detail the form and content of accounts . |
| 12 | Conversely , Poles in Lithuania had alleged that they were suffering discrimination by the Lithuanian majority . |
| 13 | I have had more submissions than he said about South Ayrshire , but mostly they were tear-out strips from newspapers and from people who had been — |
| 14 | Counsel for the owners submitted that they could be , provided they were involuntary payments and not made , albeit perhaps with some grumbling , to close the transaction . |
| 15 | in fact all of our horses main meeting , me mother and Jim they were all up and running and if , they were front runners , you know and they were all finished and James he backed a two hundred to one shot , I says you 're joking , aye it was up there with 'em mind and it finished twelfth , he said well it was a good bet |
| 16 | They were 16 subjects ( 11 women and five men ) aged from 24 to 75 years ( mean 49 ) . |
| 17 | They were 18 feet away in two but then , said Mason , ‘ I forgot it was downhill ’ and he ran his first putt eight feet past the pin . |
| 18 | Income support rise ‘ derisory ’ : This week 's rise takes many pensioners back to where they were 18 months ago , Sue Fieldman reports |
| 19 | For many pensioners this week 's increases will only bring them back to where they were 18 months ago , and some pensioners will still be worse off . |
| 20 | They were grand machines . |
| 21 | They were grand folk , and it 's because of them that I am not one of the antismoking lobby ( although I have never associated personally with nicotine ) . |
| 22 | They were grand boys and so courageous … maybe too much so as it turned out . |
| 23 | They were grand princesses dancing superbly throughout , but never once suggested that they grew from girl to woman by any change of expression or ways of dancing . |
| 24 | ‘ They were fortified towns built in the Middle Ages , some by the French and some by the English , from which they preyed on each other , particularly during the Hundred Years ’ War between our countries . |
| 25 | It did a particularly good job of informing people about the issues — especially if they were tabloid press readers , who could get relatively little information from the press ; and it made electors feel more warmth and commitment to the party system and party leaders generally . |
| 26 | They were similar types : happy , uncomplicated , but with an undercurrent of seriousness that made them want to take different directions , see with their own eyes , not other people 's . |
| 27 | With the discovery of better-preserved material it became apparent that the graptolites consisted of rows of tiny cups which were interconnected by a common canal — they were colonial animals . |
| 28 | And , well , I was n't doing anything , so I just started writing songs again — but this time they were guitar-based songs and I was working on a Portastudio . |
| 29 | N well I , I , I had , why I was so positive about it , I had an uncle who had it very badly and as a child I was very aware of his hands , they were quite inhuman looking , they were that shape , and you know everything he did he , he had to that and that 's remained in my mind that when I got it I though I wo n't have the hands like that so I r I w I go , I went to sleep , I still do it , every night , spread my hands , the last thing I think about , spread the hands . |
| 30 | They were that shape . |