Example sentences of "[adv] they be [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly they were wearing the colours of the rainbow . |
| 2 | Suddenly they were playing the game . |
| 3 | He then goes on to refer quite correctly to the fact that apparently they 're using the nineteen eighty one census figures , instead of the ninety one census figures , this could result in er , a reduction in the amount of the cash available , and we should resist that , I personally think that 's less important . |
| 4 | I think basically they 're doing the job that the public want cos they 're successful . |
| 5 | Perhaps they 're putting the the fence back in . |
| 6 | Perhaps they 're changing the language round back to front . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps they were looking the other way . ’ |
| 8 | one scene is really good , really obviously they are taking the piss out of |
| 9 | So they 're changing the way |
| 10 | Together they were to form the essential background to the most important British variant of fascism . |
| 11 | Soon they were kicking the bar with their toes , their noses buried in cold beer . |
| 12 | Oh no no just they were bringing the corn to put through the crusher . |
| 13 | If a terrorist group is operating in the area then the sooner they are stopped the better . ’ |
| 14 | In the ‘ Newtonian ’ picture , shapes to which the calculus can be applied have the property of smoothness : the more they are magnified the simpler they get ( in the limit , curves can be replaced by their tangents ) . |
| 15 | The more they were squeezed the more chrome was exuded , as if from a tube , at each end . |
| 16 | In Manders v. Williams , brewers supplied porter in casks to a publican on condition that he returned the empty casks ; held , they could maintain trover against a sheriff who took the casks in execution for the publican 's debts , for directly they were emptied the right to immediate possession was in the brewers , the publican becoming a mere bailee at will . |
| 17 | erm , erm feel like they 're getting the benefit again , again and again , you now make the costs of at every point they take another , they 've got more coming in , erm in terms of cash and er at every point I seem to loose , I loose the first case in ninety one and everything now seems to go against me , it seems as though I do n't stand a chance any more . |
| 18 | Then in 534 they overthrew the kingdom of the Burgundians , and two years later they were ceded the majority of the territory held by the Goths in Provence . |
| 19 | A few minutes later they were approaching the outskirts of the town . |
| 20 | This was repulsed , though Than Tun claimed that they desired unity which was the wish of the masses : ‘ The Rightists of the AFPFL submitted to the Imperialists in the Nu — Attlee Treaty , now also they are doing the same in discarding the Communist Party . ’ |
| 21 | Before Christmas they were offered shares ; now they are offered the dole . |
| 22 | ‘ They lost the government spending argument in the late Seventies and Eighties , now they 're trying the environmental route . ’ |
| 23 | Now they 're taking the case up with the Department of Health , the Foreign Office and the Home Office to find out where they stand if he ca n't pay . |
| 24 | Using this method archaeologists have already discovered medieval graves buried under a car park , now they 're extending the search around the blackfriars friary to try and discover what how much more of the city 's history is hidden away under concrete : |
| 25 | Now they 're asking the woman to pay nine hundred pounds towards the cost of a new one . |
| 26 | Now they 're blaming the government , saying it should have warned them against transferring their pensions into Maxwell 's hands . |
| 27 | Now they 're closing the bloody things ! |
| 28 | Now they 're putting the finishing touches to a new double album for release next March , which , if songs like ‘ Evil ’ and ‘ Mother ’ , showcased at their recent London gigs are anything to go by , promises to be an even more intoxicating opportunity to see inside Mark 's troubled , immensely talented psyche . |
| 29 | But now they 're doing the whole thing all over again . |
| 30 | Of course now they 're recalling the fact that Tweed 's wife left him several years ago for a Greek shipping magnate , that he has n't had a lot to do with women since … ’ |