Example sentences of "[adv] they be [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Suddenly they were on different planets .
2 They would meet , they would go on meeting , but already they were on opposite sides .
3 Contemplatives often lived solitary and reclusive lives whether or not they were in religious orders .
4 Well it 's a joke , because , they take up all the seats , like they 're in two seats of four , and a , there is no way you can , half the students , these silly old people come in and they take up four seats and eat our lunch .
5 You know , people And I did n't , well you were suppose Well we did mark the book at perhaps a p a pound to a book you know , like they were in those days .
6 Now they are for small children to celebrate occasionally .
7 They were being kept nine to a cell in the jail.At first they were sleeping on the concrete floor , now they 're on wooden slats .
8 Clara and Rebecca had worked as a team before this but today they were on different jobs .
9 The spins of the two protons are measured along axes which for each proton on each occasion are selected at random from the possible choices unc Sometimes both protons have their spins measured in the same directions ( both o , say ) , sometimes they are in different directions ( one A one y , say ) .
10 Finalists in last year 's Quality Quest competition , Macmillan College , Middlesbrough and Dowdales School in Dalton in Furness are staging a rematch in Newcastle , where they are among five schools battling it out in the Northern Development Company 's competition .
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