Example sentences of "they [verb] be [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't they 've been doing anything to me yet okay . |
| 2 | A supporter said yesterday : ‘ What they want is to have somebody they can control , ’ but Mr Field found it impossible to operate on that basis . |
| 3 | All they want is to get their unemployment figures down ’ . |
| 4 | ’ Most of the guys are quite tiddled , and when you 're on the screen all they want is to get their hands in your knickers and pinch your bum . |
| 5 | Innu Indians Simon Michel and Mary-Ann Michel , delivering a petition to Canada House , London , yesterday , protesting at noise and pollution from low-flying Nato aircraft over the Labrador-Quebec peninsula which they say is threatening their survival by killing the animals they hunt . |
| 6 | Now the forces of law and order that left vandals to do as they pleased were putting him behind bars . |
| 7 | So I do n't know whether they 'd been sending them away , to be er as patterns to some other firm or what , but there was quite a quant there was er a quantity of of casting sand you know black stuff that you use . |
| 8 | Till the knock on the door — two investigators said they 'd been watching my house and he was living with me . |
| 9 | The pickets knew what to expect : they 'd been warned it could turn nasty , and it did . |
| 10 | They 'd been feeding her up ( according to Danielle , they would have taken extra food from the other children ) . |
| 11 | They 'd been feeding it down at the where they give the horses |
| 12 | They were soon strolling with me round the house as if they 'd been expecting me for weeks . |
| 13 | The aroma that exuded from the chemist shop in those days like er Depends what they 'd been using you see ? |
| 14 | He 'd watch them quietly ; and he often told me how he had a good idea where they 'd been taking their honey : if they came to their hives low , they 'd most likely have come off a field of clover . |
| 15 | They 'd been taking their very last walk of a well earned holiday . |
| 16 | Well in that case and they 'd been stopping them for us you see and er excuse me stopping them for us and whoever decided to speak to them has had his few words and that 's it carry on . |
| 17 | ‘ In a fairy story one of them would ride up to the avenue here on a white horse and say they 'd been wanting you as part of their lives for years , ’ Benny said . |
| 18 | sending their mail to erm Body Shop er , they 'd been grooming their nails because they 've heard that the Body shops , in the paper the other day erm are paying ten pounds per nail if your nail 's an inch long , you know , so you cut this talon off if it 's an inch long and they had loads and loads of them sent in envelopes or people just ringing up and asking can we send our nail , ten pound a nail and they said , where the rumour started from these people had heard that because they do n't do erm experiments on animals any more they 're using nails to do experiments , the nail polish and that |
| 19 | When the judge called the jury back this afternoon they 'd been considering their verdict for one and a half days . |
| 20 | ‘ She said they 'd been helping her to write songs , and sure enough I tried one of them — low string down to D , and top string right down to C — and I got three new songs straight away : Galileo , Virginia Woolf and a ballad that did n't make it onto the record . |
| 21 | Some could n't say what they 'd been wearing themselves , but their female colleagues usually gave us some idea . ’ |
| 22 | There was a head , they 'd been telling her . |
| 23 | And er well the carriage cleaning well A carriage cleaning inspector you just , looked after the carriage cleaners and seen that the coaches were right you know and walk along the and examine the coaches after they 'd been cleaned you see . |
| 24 | They 'd been keeping it under lights , and it seemed to be growing quite happily with one end in a pot of special plant water . |
| 25 | It was just that they 'd been told they could n't do it . |
| 26 | and again ( after they 'd been told they were on camera ! |
| 27 | Workers leaving the site tonight seemed reluctant to say anything , but it was obvious they 'd been told something … and it was n't good news . |
| 28 | They 'd been offered something , two or three percent and they 's rejected it and they were threatening strike action . |
| 29 | obviously , er they th they 'd been known they 'd been known to come , er and try and have a meeting . |
| 30 | Summing up the case against 24 year old Shaun Gooch and 22 year old Anthony Gallagher the Prosecution at Gloucester Crown Court suggested to the jury that there was sufficient evidence to prove that on September 13th last year , they 'd been racing their cars along Akers Way in Swindon . |