Example sentences of "[coord] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was a kind of foreman ; and he had continually to be looking at his watch and calculating whether they were forward enough . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |