Example sentences of "[adv] they be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To say they were shocked is an understatement , but staff and customers enjoyed the day so much they are asking for another . ’ |
| 2 | Apparently they 're looking for a house now . |
| 3 | Certainly , the Serbian forces have publicly admitted that they had targeted the regional museum in Sarajevo : early last month the BBC 's war reporter Kate Adie quoted the Serbian explanation of why they had shelled the hotel which houses all the foreign correspondents : apparently they were aiming at the roof of the museum ( which contains the Bosnian anthropological material ) and missed . |
| 4 | Apparently they were thriving on hydrogen sulphide from the rotting beams of the ship . |
| 5 | My hand shook , spilling my hot milk all down my flannelette frills , and before long they were lying in a heap at my feet . |
| 6 | By the time we were halfway down they were applauding like mad . |
| 7 | Perhaps they are thinking of the soaraway end of the market ? |
| 8 | Perhaps they are thinking of the soaraway end of the market ? |
| 9 | Or perhaps they are working in Britain and having to interpret the culture that is all around them . |
| 10 | ‘ perhaps they are signalling about us . ’ |
| 11 | Perhaps they 're referring to your , um , ‘ distinctive ’ dance style ? |
| 12 | Perhaps they 're walking on the ceiling , that 's why you can hear it . |
| 13 | Perhaps they 're waiting for the police to lose interest . ’ |
| 14 | And perhaps they were hoping for an innocence that was long past both of them … |
| 15 | ‘ Obviously they 're looking at every aspect and it may include action against Tom Walkinshaw for putting together a deal that has been ruled unlawful . ’ |
| 16 | These , ’ he gestured to the Twins , ‘ are the same person really , only they 're going in different directions in time and just stopping to say hello to themselves . |
| 17 | So they are looking for ways to use their voices rather than their feet to influence management . |
| 18 | And so they 're laying on this seminar for as many parish councillors who want to go to explain the planning procedures . |
| 19 | So they 're looking for some money to finance a research fellow at the Hospital . |
| 20 | But when yo when you walk in the door , I mean , first Stuart knew so he that 's why he took me in , and we walk in and there 's a head waiter would you like a table for two sir would you like a non smoking or a smo and then he showed you to your table and pulled your chair , you know , I mean tha not what you expect in a tea shop or coffee place you know i ha ha and they have proper waitresses with the little hat on , you know she 'll get about four tables so they 're looking after you and even on your saucer where you had your I mean yo your teapot and everything on the saucer 's a little mat so that you do n't drip , if it drips |
| 21 | So they 're going off their trolley |
| 22 | Gerry had seen his face and they got to go and look at the mug shots and all that and er longlegs had been informed across the road because they 'd got er a camera that works and er they got in touch with the , they told the police about it and so they 're going over there to see if it 's been recorded you see . |
| 23 | So they 're going to ai n't they ? they go home at night and it 's coloured girls , white girls and then there 's the men that the cars . |
| 24 | So they 're going to be the conscience and the parenting for that year group and I also suggested that at that time , I think what Rob 's doing is getting the children to look at themselves er , as regards what their strengths and weaknesses are and the P S D have got to clarify that . |
| 25 | So they 're going to actually buy the desserts from the college . |
| 26 | So they 're going at fifty five metres every twenty seconds , and you can imagine Peter O'Sullivan , now look at this Pip , they 're going at a , a nice steady fifty five metres every twenty seconds , what 's that in metres per second ? |
| 27 | Her owners fear this will leave Sami without the care he needs so they 're appelaing for a foster-mum . |
| 28 | so they 're working on them ? |
| 29 | So they 're working to different standards than that the water industry . |
| 30 | So they were thinking of it . |