Example sentences of "[modal v] be [v-ing] [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have known that no amount of understanding can carry any individual for long against the swirling crowds of social existence , and that soon after rejoining them I too should be stampeding with them . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I ca n't think why we should be praying for them , ’ Benny said with mock indignation . |
| 3 | We should be talking to them now . |
| 4 | ‘ You should be talking to them , asking them questions . ’ |
| 5 | First of all they say that if she thinks that they 're waxworks she should pay , and then they say that if she thinks that they are real , she should be talking to them . |
| 6 | We should be talking with them and going out of our way to assure them that we do not wish to engage in a price war . |
| 7 | He had begun it , but she was an active participant now , her breast voluptuously offered to the sensual onslaught of his parted lips when she knew she should be shrinking from them . |
| 8 | For a start she had been the only woman , and her colleagues had found it strange that she should be working with them . |
| 9 | The wind must be blowing from them to you , since this not only minimises the noise you may inadvertently make but it prevents your scent blowing towards the rabbits and giving them advance warning that all 's not well . |
| 10 | ‘ Trouble is , Danny , they beat the watchman up an' 'e picked 'em out in an identification parade , so the copper told me. 'E said I might be 'earin' from 'em . |
| 11 | They tend to be brittle , competitive and over-obsessed with their looks and who might be looking at them . |
| 12 | I try not to think what Andy might be doing to them . |
| 13 | With justice Henry V is credited not only with having understood , better than did any of his contemporaries , what were the naval problems which faced England in the early fifteenth century , but also with having done much towards the creation of a fleet of ships , some of them very large , almost ‘ prestige-type ’ vessels , which would make it possible for the English to take to sea quickly and thus try to wrest the initiative from any enemy who might be coming against them . |
| 14 | Chair , can I suggest that some of the people who are actually involved in this are actually asked themselves rather than agencies that might be working with them , because I think that , that most of the , the sort of people we 're talking about are actually very sensitive . |
| 15 | yes you do , you do n't always see them , what have you done with your glasses ? , oh , I thought you might be sitting on them again |
| 16 | He had a premonition that the enemy might be waiting for them . |
| 17 | When the Dragons first eleven set off for the sun in a couple of weeks time they 'll be taking with them a pretty impressive record , just 2 defeats in the last seven seasons . |
| 18 | Well she 'll be in the school there 'll be , there 'll be teachers there that 'll be watching over them |
| 19 | Well no cos you 'll be helping with them anyway wo n't you ? |
| 20 | Er , and we 'll be looking at them later . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll be talking to them all individually and in some detail tomorrow . |
| 22 | So when the personnel officer told her she 'd be hearing from them in the next two days , Muriel went away optimistic . |
| 23 | The hamper would be a present for the three of them and she 'd be thinking of them having a jolly evening . |
| 24 | You see you could have a charge-hand over er er two or three people really , he 'd be working with them but he he 'd be the charge-hand . |
| 25 | The identity booklet ( or key card ) together with any messages or letters that may be waiting for them are handed to the guest . |
| 26 | Even he who may be paying for them ! |
| 27 | The Alliance wanted television yet feared that it would be damaging to them , as Alliance MPs are allowed such a small share of parliamentary time . |
| 28 | Behbehanian was to write to all foreign banks that held the Shahs funds to inform then that form no on His Imperial Majesty would be dealing with them direct and the He Muhammad Behbehanian , would no longer be acting on the Shah 's behalf . |
| 29 | We saw the necessity to make an immediate impression on the new tribe , since we would be dealing with them soon enough . |
| 30 | I 'm sure if the hardliners have won , now that is erm , would be dealing with them just as now . |