Example sentences of "[vb base] they [be] all [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I had in mind Vladimir Nabokov , if you 're willing to consider him as an American writer , John Barth , Richard Brortigan , Robert Coover. erm As I say they 're all writers who might come under the heading of , of postmodern meta-fiction writers who do not take for granted that fiction has a , a direct and clearly understandable relationship with society so that it can erm give you a very clear picture of society at a given moment , which was generally the case in the , with British fiction in the nineteenth century .
2 You know they 're all things that you , they d expect you to know .
3 but to feel sorry for women and put their view forward because , I mean , you still the situation of a Friday when men go down to the pub and you know they 're all Jack the Lad !
4 But I suppose they 're all boys really , I mean are all boys like this really ?
5 Some sort of coven or a secret society , and I believe they are all party to it .
6 I mean they 're all history .
7 They should all be the same , let's put them together anyway , even if they 're not , we should put them together because erm I mean they 're all part of the same company anyway .
8 Well there 's Lewis and Pringle and Reeve and Defreites and Tuftnot , I mean they 're all bowlers
9 I think they 're all ones .
10 In my attitude , you know , I , I think you know I think they 're all prats and stuff and I do n't joke around like that .
11 And that I think they 're all tights there .
12 Sometimes I wish they was all youngsters again , at least yer could put 'em ter bed an' know where they all were . ’
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