Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [noun pl] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos some of them are trousers but they 're really |
| 2 | But I think that secretly the vice-chancellor and the other grown-ups were delighted by this kind of behaviour , as it proved beyond any reasonable doubt that we were students and they were teachers . |
| 3 | ‘ They are cowards because they must have realised she was quite seriously injured . |
| 4 | True-kin do not necessarily love one another , but it is always presumed that they are friends until they are shown to be enemies . |
| 5 | What I mean is , women are vulnerable when they are housewives because they also have sole responsibility for childcare at home . |
| 6 | Tell people day and night that they are beasts if they allow baby 's thighs to chafe , of that they will lose their friends unless they banish cat-box odour from their homes , and they will soon believe it , if not consciously , then in the little compartment of the brain that controls buying habits . |
| 7 | For liberty to be opposing it in the way that they are shows that they do n't remotely understand the best interests of our children or our schools . |
| 8 | They are Arabs and they will never be integrated . " |
| 9 | They are kinsmen because they are somehow of common substance , as with English consanguinity , kinship by common blood . |
| 10 | They are foreigners and they appear to be drinking . |
| 11 | And the point is that all this is good , fair and equitable if you start from the conventional wisdom that : housewives do n't need money of their own because they are supported by their husbands ; they are supported by their husbands because they are dependants ; and they are dependants because they ‘ do n't work ’ . |
| 12 | Those who choose to risk their lives earning a living at sea do not want to be forced to give up , but they are realists and they do not want to go bankrupt either . |
| 13 | THERE are few guarantees in politics but it is a more than reasonable bet that John Major and Bill Clinton will both be smiling and behaving as if they are buddies when they give a press conference at the White House tomorrow afternoon . |
| 14 | I reckon they 're friends cos they do n't really look like each other and there ai n't no grown up with them , like they 're a family out with their mum and dad . |
| 15 | A lot of people think that they 're housewives and they 're cabbages ; I do n't like to think I 'm only a housewife … |
| 16 | ‘ It 's not very clever , because it makes the parents look as if they 're idiots when they 're not — it says more about him than the people he 's speaking about . ’ |
| 17 | I think it I think they 're thickies and they 'll wan na read something else ! |
| 18 | But they 're idols because they take the place of God . |
| 19 | Now it did n't mean that you build his war machine , but the Kuwaiti people being so close , or actually bordering , we helped the economy of Baghdad , we helped the economy of the Iraq , and we contributed thirteen billion dollars , just the government alone , to their economy and the people of Kuwait also helped with their own private donation to help the schools , the hospitals , the food , whatever they needed , and the country of Kuwait was erm trying to be , as my friend said , as neutral as possible because there is Irani interest in Kuwait , very great through trade , through Iranis who work in Kuwait , so we had a very difficult position with respect to keeping both parties erm sort of in sight , not lose sight of them from our humanistic point of view , but it was erm difficult to avoid being on the side of the Iraqui , mainly because they 're neighbours and they 're Arabs , and you 're part of the league of Arab states , so you ca n't draw the line and say the government was pro or against , but that was the atmosphere which we were leaving . |
| 20 | There 's this other two and erm they 're brothers and they 're both they 're both quite big . |
| 21 | They were friends and they expected never to see each other again . |
| 22 | They were singers and they could n't sing a note in tune . |
| 23 | Well , see these are the ones that I sent in and I did n't think they would , they would agree with because they were duplicates unless they found the original . |
| 24 | They started off knowing they were rocks and they ended up not knowing anything . |
| 25 | The other is that they were Christians but they received at this point more of the Holy Spirit , they were filled with the Spirit ‘ as at the beginning . ’ |
| 26 | You know or f or or you know always it was that they were men cos they came from during the strike . |
| 27 | I guess they were animals and they had their rights . |
| 28 | No , I , oh I ca , I can manage them , you know , two or three days when they were babies when they were younger ! |
| 29 | They were humans but they were just like the monsters . |
| 30 | and they , that was when they were kids and they still remember it |