Example sentences of "[be] [adj] of [noun] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People are afraid of oils because they are used by great masters ’ , she says , ‘ but they are the easiest thing to start with . |
| 2 | But the truth is , they 're afraid of Lewis and they 're trying to milk the title for all it 's worth . ’ |
| 3 | But the truth is , they 're afraid of Lewis and they 're trying to milk the title for all it 's worth . ’ |
| 4 | These children had n't learnt to be afraid of animals because they had never heard of Earth , the Burning , or the Book of Remembering . |
| 5 | Our correspondent smiled to herself , no doubt thinking that the railway company must be short of staff if they had to bring such an old man out of his back garden to work the system . |
| 6 | His family claim he was badly concussed and the RAF were guilty of negligence when they allowed him to make the second jump . |
| 7 | The little man 's eyes were full of concern as they roved over my limply hanging arms and the caked blood and filth on my chest . |
| 8 | They were full of words and they did n't have any pictures . |
| 9 | Three out of four children are aware of cigarettes before they reach the age of 5 whether the parents smoke or not ; at 10 years old as many as 40% of boys and 28% of girls have had at least a few puffs of a cigarette [ 1 ] and about one third of those who become regular smokers have started before age 9 [ 2 ] . |
| 10 | The house was full of moths because they had left the doors and windows open after they put the lights on . |
| 11 | It was in the winter time so it was full of hay but they would be very careful and we would ask them that they had no matches in case er there was no cigarettes much and that but pipes they were pipe smokers . |
| 12 | And then we had to wait while they poured them in the moulds , but if the moulds failed , and they were rather big , they was full of air-holes and they used to turn it all into a fine just l l pebbles of molten metal , straight back up at you , and you could n't move cos if you moved your crane then somebody would have been killed with out the ladles . |