Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [conj] they be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gooseberries , for example , can be picked for cooking or processing when they are still hard and green , flowers are often cut while still in bud and many roots or salad crops are at their most palatable when young and tender . |
| 2 | Well i that was to sort of try and make you focus on the gifts of the Holy Spirit that we 're going to receive , that we receive through or that you have strengthened through Confirmation , rather than receiving because they 're already there . |
| 3 | Next morning I was sitting on the garage roof watching starlings squabbling on the lawn and wondering if they were too busy to have noticed me , when they suddenly took off with a great rush of wings . |
| 4 | He was a kind of foreman ; and he had continually to be looking at his watch and calculating whether they were forward enough . |
| 5 | The members of this family are genetically identical and this was confirmed by making skin grafts between them and finding that they were not rejected . |
| 6 | I mean you ca n't do that there is no correlation between you ca n't say that all the activists are extroverts cos are actually quite about the way they but they do like to have a go and it does n't say all the reflectors cos they 're sitting back and thinking and they 're actually quiet reflectors . |
| 7 | The new , independent Her Majesty 's inspectorate will have the duty of giving a little lion stamp to those inspectors and ensuring that they are up to the mark . |
| 8 | Table 4.6 shows that worry and sadness were expressed by nearly half our samples of dementia sufferers at both time periods ; loneliness was less often admitted , though one in five to a quarter of the samples did admit it ; while saying that they were not very or not at all happy was the least common sentiment , this being expressed by approximately only one in six of the samples . |
| 9 | Participating gastroenterologists were asked to enrol eligible duodenal ulcer patients consecutively but none was permitted to enrol more than seven patients since the aim was to recruit patients over a short a time period as possible while ensuring that they were also drawn from many different parts of the country . |