Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] they [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 The fact that they broke in but did n't take anything , and also that they were obviously professionals , makes me think they were looking for something specific .
2 Because at the end of the day I mean they 're building up a a set of rules .
3 I mean they 're sticking out
4 You know and I mean it seems such a shame to cut it I mean they 're living things are n't they ?
5 the trouble is , I mean they 're looking for somewhere to have it .
6 Well perhaps because they were more idealist and that now they 're becoming more realist but they 're still erm I mean they 're learning from their past mistakes and they 've seen that right so we have to have a moderate policy which is gon na take us a little bit further towards socialism .
7 If they 've got any sense at all they should be I mean they 're getting it for free except for the telephone calls you might use
8 I mean they 're getting now that , that , before they go any where now .
9 They 're either shouting or but I mean they 're getting millions now you get this
10 That , I mean they 're setting up the County Working , a County Working Group again are n't they ?
11 I mean they 're running .
12 Er so er I mean they 're going to show you the seven year figure , maybe do n't show you the ten year figure , because they do n't look too good over ten years .
13 Because at the moment I mean they 're going into some venues out like the Traverse , who were thinking of doing it anyway , but
14 I mean they 're going to be very easy to buy .
15 I mean they 're going
16 I mean they 're going
17 I mean they 're going at seventy and eighty miles an hour .
18 I mean they 're paying for us to go for a meal you ca n't go dressed like
19 There 's no toilets , nothing for them , I mean they 're doing everything in public , I mean it 's not right , it 's making life bad and this is meant to be a holiday resort .
20 I mean they 're gon na you know ?
21 I mean they 're gon na be
22 erm should she pack up her Saturday job , it pays around twenty pound and it will go up to about twenty five , and Sue and Will sat and talked about it and she got , she 's surprising been interviewed for the W R A F but I mean that 's not gon na be so easy these days , I mean they 're gon na take the exceptionals that they need are n't they ?
23 What about forty five , I mean they 're gon na they 're not gon na go on they 're not gon na on twenty to win junior
24 I mean they was talking about getting a really small for erm
25 now the best of the timber he had Gottonam Peters , the builders that were , I mean they were building a lot then and I 'm going back now to the fifties and the sixties Gottonam Peters they 'd done a lot of building in Upton in Chester and erm , developments er expect building sort of thing and er , they used to buy in all the three by twos and four by threes that he could get , the good ones second hand
26 But I mean they were banging they were banging fifteen hundred in for that disco for the first
27 I mean they were talking on the video about profit margins , but he did n't company he was supposed to achieve , presumably there was a minimum for all three of them , so What else would you do with Bernard ?
28 But I thought if that 's how they run a business So then when they , they moved house I realized they were using an ordinary saucepan to do their chips in and I had visions of fat boiling over and cos it 's gas so I bought them one a very nice deep fryer as a housewarming present .
29 He led us out to sea after four 88s in a long stern chase — always deadly , particularly over Malta — when I saw we were actually overtaking the 88s , I realised they were acting as decoys .
30 The Church of Scotland audio-visual team filmed an interview with me about our methods , and too late I realised they were making a film about ‘ groups ’ , whereas I maintain that it is because we are not a group that we succeed .
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