Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] they be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that the old people would be left with the abusers unless they wanted to go into care or unless they were themselves mentally impaired . |
| 2 | Chairman I 'll try and be brief er I think the problem with the car boot sales is that they have been er hi-jacked commercially er it seems a good idea it 's , it 's another line another way of disposing of goods whether they 're straight goods or whether they 're they 're er misappropriated goods or whatever . |
| 3 | She felt much less used and abused when she could distinguish whether his hugs were genuine offers of warmth and love towards her or whether they were his means of asking for something just for himself . |
| 4 | At the end , the nobleman called them charlatans and beggars and told them that if they were his , he would have them all flogged and their noses cut off . |
| 5 | Er we 've no great problems with our technical results , and where they are we sort them out quite amicably with the area people . |
| 6 | By keeping up-to-date-records of our objects and where they are we are trying our hardest to behave responsibly with what we have and what we know we have . ’ |
| 7 | They have move from the rock into her eyes and into her head and so they are hers . |
| 8 | I 'd be surprised to hear they were still in the country , and if they are they should be lying low . ’ |
| 9 | However , no thermally formed vortices have been observed , and if they were they would theoretically be on a far larger scale than the spacing of the longitudinal dunes ( Mabbutt , 1 977 ) . |
| 10 | cos , cos if they are I mean a lot of people are more for , er the thing of Simon er , er although we 've , we 've been expecting the er the withdraw of the work demands |
| 11 | They can hardly bear to be out of physical contact with the machine and when they are they carry their printouts around with them . |
| 12 | Serum urea and electrolytes , liver function tests , coagulation , and red cell folate were seldom abnormal and when they were it was probably because of an unrelated coexistent disease . |
| 13 | And as they are my works , I do not find |
| 14 | And he realized the boy 's terror : he could feel the imprint of the boy 's feelings as strongly as if they were his own . |
| 15 | But if you really feel this , it is usually appropriate to quote the original , rather than incorporate its words into your essay as though they are your own . |
| 16 | Device drivers are made to enable DOS to do things it would not normally be able to do — like treat another machines drives and printers as though they were its own . |
| 17 | Linda Kelly has made herself so familiar with these redoubtable historical figures that she writes about them as though they were her next-door neighbours . |
| 18 | ‘ In no sense , though some diocesan clergy tend to treat parochial clergy as though they were their inferiors . |
| 19 | There were odd moments when , for no reason , the two voices lifted off , as though they were nothing to do with the two people who did n't like one another . |
| 20 | She arrives , convincingly , at a much more positive — for the women in question — interpretation ; but also one which allows the writings and lives of these women to have a depth and dimension for us which was simply not available in many cases while we insisted on trying to see them as sexual victims of appalling restrictions of personal freedom : to see them as though they were us . |
| 21 | We are to read the stories of women as though they were our stories , empathizing with them in their suffering and standing with them in their courage in the face of patriarchy . |
| 22 | for though they were my joy |