Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [conj] they be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , it has been wonderful , querida , ’ he agreed quietly , his eyes softening till they were almost hazel in shade . |
| 2 | If anything , studies suggest the opposite : children and young adults with crude fantasies of aggression have been found to be more openly aggressive in their behaviour than those whose aggressive fantasies are muted or contain elements indicating that they are as concerned with the dangerous consequences of their aggression as they are with the aggression itself . |
| 3 | Any party , including the child , may be excluded from a directions hearing if they are legally represented and their absence is desirable in the child 's interests in view of the matters to be discussed ( FPCR , r16(2) ; FPR , r4.16(2) ) . |
| 4 | There were ten teams competing and they were down as ‘ Hawkwood Comprehensive ’ . |
| 5 | He thought of all those white-faced passengers , panic-stricken as they peered out of their windows when they heard the engines spooling up again , wheels rumbling as they were noisily retracted , finally followed by the sharp upward tilt as the plane climbed out from the airport at full power . |
| 6 | Of the twenty patients eligible for phase 2 , three refused to try the suspect foods arguing that they were not important in their diets ( mushroom , apple , and peanuts ) and they did not wish to risk a recurrence of symptoms . |