Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the Indians thought it was a religious thing , like celebrating the 500th anniversary of a cathedral or whatever . |
| 2 | So the police say you were doing forty miles an hour . |
| 3 | Tonight the police said they are checking for any similarities with previous attacks . |
| 4 | they 're blaming er parents are blaming school teachers about the kids , now where I live kids are running around up to eleven o'clock at night sometimes , it 's not the teachers to blame it 's the parents |
| 5 | Toshiba Corp has been showing off the robotics work it is engaged on at its research centre , where it has a number of projects that are or have grown out of government-sponsored projects : it is developing eyes 2mm to 3mm in diameter for a micromachine for use in inspecting pipes in nuclear power stations , and also a software-controlled self-mobile robot for use in space where not all astronauts can be expected to be robot experts . |
| 6 | One primary school teacher from Gile describes the problems of keeping a school going once the villagers knew they were likely to be attacked by the forces of Renamo : |
| 7 | Whenever the students thought they were evaluating the work of a man , they assessed it as far more impressive than when they thought it was authored by a woman , whose efforts were labelled mediocre . |
| 8 | I 'd sit up in my room bashing out the blues like I was Blind Lemon Matlock . |
| 9 | Now the Galatians said it was okay to do that . |
| 10 | From the moment Galwey won his first international cap against Namibia two years ago the experts claimed he was too short for an international lock forward , too slow to be an effective No 8 . |
| 11 | They were soon relegated to the emigrants ' cars , and when even the emigrants complained they were forced to travel on baggage wagons or on the boarding steps . |
| 12 | Sometimes the women say she is a saint , but that is only because she has kept me here , and they do not like her . |
| 13 | The police called for reinforcements but by then the workmen knew they were outnumbered and decided enough was enough . |
| 14 | In Darcy 's Utopia parents will have some reassurance in the fact that at least the neighbours thought they were fit to rear children : some of the responsibility for failure , should failure there be , will rest with the community . |
| 15 | like he sticking up his head they did and er course the kids said they was going to get th , and he |
| 16 | The target moved from where the beams thought it was going to be . |
| 17 | Yet the customs surrounding it were never clearly defined . |
| 18 | At Dunsdale , around £17m of investors funds have gone missing , and again the investors thought they were investing in gilts . |
| 19 | Berwick Kaler gives a peculiarly charmless performance as the Pope , Frances de la Tour is wasting her time as the witch , and one wonders why the producers thought it was worth transferring this dismal exercise to the West End from the West Yorkshire Playhouse . |
| 20 | Ultimately the Goods learned she was desperately ill with a disease that was incurable . |
| 21 | The last words of the song , ‘ singing sorrowless ’ , stand out against this current , but still wherever the lovers go it is ‘ away ’ , ‘ in the forest ’ , maybe the forest of mortality and final death . |