Example sentences of "be what they [vb base] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have a ring round their neck and are what they call walking toads . |
| 2 | That 's what they 've made the old Anglesey Road hospital into . |
| 3 | They welcomed John McCarthy and Jill Morrell like heroes and to many that 's what they 've become . |
| 4 | And when you take on the role always hold something in reserve , so it 's what they 've created , but here 's something unexpected about it . |
| 5 | oh , you know , that 's , that 's it because for thirteen years they have dismantled the social system , that 's what they 've done in thirteen years , so they ca n't say overnight , we 'll put it all back because there is n't , there , there is n't the finance there because they 've spent it all to have done what they 've done |
| 6 | and that 's what they 've done , all then that done ripped it |
| 7 | That 's what , that 's what they 've said anyway . |
| 8 | Eat a nome and you die , that 's what they 've learned . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ What I say , constable , is ’ — and now it was Arthur speaking — ‘ there 's such a thing as 'arassment , that 's what they 've told me when I 've been up afore the old bloke . |
| 10 | He 's had about three pints but that 's what they 've told him to take . |
| 11 | If freedom 's what they 've got . |
| 12 | England did n't stipulate ‘ remote ’ — but that 's what they 've got in Santander on the breezy northern coast that 's home to golfing star Seve Ballesteros . |
| 13 | th th they defend that against the Japanese and then in , early in forty seven the come in and take it over so it 's an enormous psychological shock erm and they recognize that erm they , they , they do need to er they recognize that the way is through mass support , they think that 's what they 've got ta get , and they 've got ta get it quickly . |
| 14 | That 's what they 've got . |
| 15 | Aye , aye that 's what they 've got aye . |
| 16 | I mean er , that 's what they 've got ta get used to . |
| 17 | Looking back into the past , people are eager for an explanation to be given to them by Thames and I do think that people do n't feel that 's what they 've had so far . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's what they tend to do . ’ |
| 19 | That 's what they keep telling me . |
| 20 | That 's what they damn want is n't it ? |
| 21 | So it 's what they want to talk about anyway |
| 22 | It 's what they want to hear . " |
| 23 | Well that 's what they want to hear . |
| 24 | And that 's what they say raise them . |
| 25 | If they 've made you redundant that 's what they have to do . |
| 26 | Well yes , what you talking about , all the cigarettes that 's what they have to do apparently . |
| 27 | If , if our mid-field players and our back four players , whoever you like to , if our front players have to come back in and get involved , if that 's what they have to do , and everybody get behind the ball , that 's what you have to do . |
| 28 | Yeah so , and that 's what they call cutting . |
| 29 | That 's what they call chapping corn . |
| 30 | Oh , I see ah I thought they had sort of you know like fairy tales , you can see through the wall , that 's what they do put a camera in in , anyway it was rather funny and those birds come out and grow up quite quite wonderful . |