Example sentences of "they [verb] [be] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says , Ali Carver , she said they 'd been to that last Saturday night with a couple from and she said they paid fifteen pound just them |
| 2 | They know the truth : that life with an aged parent can be a strange mixture of joy and sorrow , and all they ask is for that fact to be accepted , not glossed over by their family and society , and then to be offered some practical ideas on how to make the best of a good job , which they consider to be well worth doing . |
| 3 | I thought , would n't it be good though if they , if what they did is on that day we went they pick everyone who wanted like the jobs yeah |
| 4 | But what it is er they 've been like that for years , like , in the bathrooms |
| 5 | Maurice Hope held a similar view , though he favoured social rather than genetic factors : ‘ Black people are natural fighters ; they 've been fighting for survival and they 've been in that condition all their lives . |
| 6 | In that netherworld state , while they 've been in that state of absorption . ’ |
| 7 | Yeah , but they 're not , the whole idea is that they 're not , they do n't wan na ask , they 're not prepared to ask it 's not right It should be provided by the school they 've been against that whole thing . |