Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they are taking her to the High Court . |
| 2 | I have no doubt about it that the government are urging us at this moment , er I I am concerned about that , they are urging us by the er |
| 3 | When parents are so concerned for the children 's safety that they prevent them from exercising choice and making decisions , they are depriving them of the experience they need in order to cope with life as mature adults . |
| 4 | He said When they are stabbing you in the back and behaving totally idiotically . |
| 5 | All this trouble they are giving us despite the fact that I have a UK passport . |
| 6 | Trainees will probably need a lot of guidance in completing the exercise in Handout 14 both because they are doing it without the benefit of parents and in order to keep their CBs both objective and closely related to the PBs . |
| 7 | ‘ The only difference between Lee and Roy Keane and David Hirst is that they are doing it in the Premier League . |
| 8 | They are leading us in the direction of a central truth about life on Earth , the truth that I alluded to in my opening paragraph about willow seeds . |
| 9 | It 's a couple of hours ’ drive from Berlin , and they 're expecting us in the morning . |
| 10 | Well I think I 've been rather more fortunate , the two branch managers I 've had er , before , I 'd not had long enough , er , both have given albeit not regular , but feedback both positive and negative , er , when you 're doing a good job and when you 're doing a bad job , and er , in all honesty , it 's probably the appraisal itself , that 's actually been unnecessary because of their feedback they 're given me during the year , because the appraisal is just a formal repetition of what 's already been said . |
| 11 | like for a kick off , he went down to the skip last Saturday , the tip , we had , er he was clearing out the back yard , he took some rubble and boxes and things down there , and he was talking to the fellow there they said oh , he said er they were shutting this skip , er they 're moving it down the road and you 'll have to pay , you 'll have to pay to tip your rubbish |
| 12 | Yah , they 're taking it off the satellite and it used to be there was always the seven o'clock news , except in central side when it was always the six o'clock news , but now it 's on at like any old time , five thirty , six thirty , seven . |
| 13 | Oh , 'cos they 're taking it from the East Coast feed . |
| 14 | They 're saving them for the Open . ’ |
| 15 | And erm so if they 're buying it on the , on the market , th the company should pay a fair price for , for what they 've bought . |
| 16 | They 're having it at the co , at the university because David 's mother has some connection . |
| 17 | well no they 're having it in the er , that one against top of the market , what is it called er ? |
| 18 | They 're keeping me to the contract … wanting their pound o ’ flesh . |
| 19 | I wonder if they 're keeping him in the morgue , by the way ? |
| 20 | How is unemployment measured , they 're measuring it in the formal sector , and you can actually live by being employed in the informal sector , which is often not recorded . |
| 21 | a lot of sixteen year olds are still having trouble with decimals like that and they 're adding them in the wrong place . |
| 22 | I do n't know , they 're loa , looks like they 're loading them in , they 're putting them in the gar the school . |
| 23 | Because of your health , pet , they 're putting us on the priority list , say we did n't ought to be below-ground , nor too high . |
| 24 | the earths it comes out of so they 're selling it by the bottle in Germany . |
| 25 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 26 | so they 're doing it from the age of possibly eight or nine some people , certainly down right the way through |
| 27 | They 're doing it by the . |
| 28 | They wo n't take any notice of us , Baptiste said : the ambulance is round the front , I saw it , and they 're carrying him into the downstairs bit . |
| 29 | If they were to report it to the company the whole crew could lose their jobs . ’ |
| 30 | Veterans mostly of conferences and corporate operations where the good time masked a definite hidden agenda , they were steering him through the introductions deftly and with an impressive display of memory . |