Example sentences of "[verb] they [verb] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that you 'd know they 'd been most days . |
| 2 | They say they have been innocent victims in a crime for which the law says they must also be punished . |
| 3 | One of the messages from the Bill may be that bringing in those schemes and making them work is one way in which the engineers can show that they have as much to contribute in cutting the number of casualties as those who deal with the behavioural side of driving and those who build the bypasses that take traffic away from towns and villages . |
| 4 | There are laws against discrimination but to get them respected is another matter . |
| 5 | Where computer systems have been investigated they have been large mainframe systems . |
| 6 | He had just glanced at his wristwatch , to discover that Cunningham 's arrival still lay approximately two replays of Little Brown Jug in the future , when a woman slid onto the next bar-stool to his and said : ‘ Hello , Harry , ’ in a tone of husky confidence which suggested they had been lifelong friends . |