Example sentences of "[prep] be a [noun sg] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Summer Saturdays have continued to be a nightmare as they have for the nineteen summers your author has lived at Aberystwyth ! |
| 2 | Because er , inevitably man has got ta leave their home , even if they 've had a father erm who 's been a if they 've had no father at all , they 're gon na leave and they 're gon na face a world where they have to be a man and they 're gon na have to find their own male morals , and I think the , the responsibility , basically , has got ta come to men to change not for us to change them . |
| 3 | They wanted me to be a secretary and they wanted my sister to be a doctor or something medical . |
| 4 | The man took a couple of steps back as they headed for him ; but then they stopped , as if they 'd sensed his fury and found it to be a wall that they hesitated to scale . |
| 5 | There was going to be a riot so they brought her up . |
| 6 | They use a lot yeah the ch I put it in my I mean , I said yesterday to him , we 've got the decorators in and then co they turned round and said he is meant to be a businessman and they said he can not believe they 've never met tha such a penny pinching guy |
| 7 | like I once read a book where this girl she wanted to be a doctor and they brought her to a nursery for work experience |
| 8 | There 's got to be a reason that they have not replied . |
| 9 | Not quite enough perhaps but still enough to be an admission that they got it seriously wrong in the year before . |