Example sentences of "[be] [pron] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You 're what they call a litter bug . " |
| 2 | There had been something they 'd said . |
| 3 | ‘ They all knew I was pregnant , but it never seemed to be something they took into consideration , ’ Lynda Coral recalls . |
| 4 | ‘ People do n't often change their buildings and contents cover once they have got it it tends to be something they pay and forget about . ’ |
| 5 | It 'd be something they remembered . ’ |
| 6 | It 'd be something they remembered . ’ |
| 7 | If they stay silent , their dialects will never give them away and they can be whoever they like . ’ |
| 8 | It could hardly be him they wanted , or they would have been pounding upstairs and hammering on his door by now . |
| 9 | In real life , as Anne proves , they can do and be whatever they want nowadays . |
| 10 | The room looked to be what they had thought ; a store or perhaps a fuelhouse which might be left unattended for most of the time . |
| 11 | She said : it must be what they told us about . |
| 12 | This must be what they call the fog of war . ’ |
| 13 | And you 'll be what they call educated . |
| 14 | And they used to er have er a film Of course they used to be silent films and then er er had er and there used to be what they call interval . |
| 15 | Well the cr the jib went up and then it came down like that , well that swan neck on the cr that used to be what they call level oven , cos as y as you lift your crane out , so this part would come up . |
| 16 | However well-intentioned an Arnold or an Attlee or a Keynes or a Webb I suspect that the outcome can hardly be what they envisaged . |
| 17 | This may not , of course , be what they decide ! |
| 18 | He said that he thought the proposal could well be what they wanted and promised a definite decision within two days . |
| 19 | But the Rhino at least has friends , although they might not always be what they seem . |
| 20 | Even these cuts may not be what they seem . |
| 21 | Well all that and then there used to be what they used call er net mending but my mother used to do that . |
| 22 | And then on the other side there used to be what they called the market . |
| 23 | The rest of the Latin text , which deals with both religious and secular matters , including the preparation of a fleet , seems also to be what they preached , and it ends by stating that these were the statutes issued by King Æthelred which the nobles promised to observe . |
| 24 | ‘ Here in Paris I 'm what they call a touche-à-tout ( Jack of all trades ) in literature , architecture and graphic design . |
| 25 | I explained to Valerie and Keith that a relationship could be anything they cared to make it . |
| 26 | Because some of course are they they reach the thirty six thousand threshold without any problem at all . |
| 27 | Not round Havers , wh they park where those , those sort of shops are they they park all around the corners so that you have to go out round them . |
| 28 | Right so if we 're looking at what what are they they asking for here ? |
| 29 | The patrol took some prisoners and drove through the lines until they met up with a British unit , who refused to believe they were who they said they were . |
| 30 | I do n't know but then frankly thinking but then I got them in the end you know I just did n't sell them because nobody paid that much and then ah in the outset and I paid quite a big price for for two for Patrick and me and then when they were they they dropped the price and then I got some more . |