Example sentences of "they be [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh my dear some of them are comparing you with Racquel Welsh or whatever , you know you get the impression they 're looking down their nose , as much to say oh how dreadful for me to have to be seen with this old person ! |
| 2 | There are too many people nowadays who think they are achieving something by changing the scenery as often as possible : hitchhiking through Europe , peddling across Asia , rowing across the Atlantic and so forth . |
| 3 | It is important that those who set out to establish bereavement services spend some time deciding who they are providing them for . |
| 4 | They are taking him to Miami , America , for a visit to Disneyland . |
| 5 | Now they are taking her to the High Court . |
| 6 | They are taking them from one list and putting them on another . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Simon made a hash of telling his parents — he did hate them so — he went to Northumberland and come back rocking with laughter , Do you know what they are taking you for , my sweet ? |
| 8 | She advises worried parents to take their children out to museums , the theatre and cinema , and to make sure that they are getting plenty of interaction with other children . |
| 9 | Many solicitors , in writing a letter for a client , will misrepresent the law , even though they are addressing themselves to a layman , and will lend themselves to various abuses and suppressions ( not involving a breach of law ) in order to obstruct a just claim . |
| 10 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 11 | They are reconciling themselves to their own mortality . |
| 12 | " The [ communist ] movement is starting to fade away , they are alienating themselves from the people , " Buscayno told an interviewer . |
| 13 | They are using it as part of their module to train for the real business world by setting up their own venture and running it for the school year . |
| 14 | Ah well , they are refurbishing plenty of other things besides the buildings and the language . |
| 15 | Post-war criticism was ‘ gladiatorial ’ , as John Wain remarked years later , in 1972 , when the excitement had died down ; and attractive to the young for just that reason , since the young feed on moral drama : ‘ they need to feel that they are proving themselves by bravely attacking something powerful . ’ |
| 16 | They know they are drinking themselves to death and in such an instance the social worker has no legal powers to intervene . |
| 17 | Increasingly they are grouping themselves into multiple retail chains , as can be seen from Table 11.10 . |
| 18 | They complain that OSF 's price list is meant for higher end machines and they are muttering something about ‘ large volumes ’ . |
| 19 | If they are holding it on their mainframe , they have to devise their own implementation of SASPAC91 . |
| 20 | And , of course , they are buying them to be trendy . |
| 21 | They are buying them for business . |
| 22 | I have no doubt about it that the government are urging us at this moment , er I I am concerned about that , they are urging us by the er |
| 23 | ‘ It 's a great tournament but they are ruining it by making it too tough . |
| 24 | A group of kids are on a roundabout , one foot on and one foot off , they are pushing it at a giddy speed , round and around until their faces form a single banded blur . |
| 25 | Hi-fi officianardos are already advising people not to be too hasty in relinquishing their black vinyl record collections for fear that the CDs that they are replacing them with will fade in sound quality after ten years of use . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , not only are legal firms unable to maximise the amount of extra business they can sell through cross-fertilisation of other specialised services , they are losing it to other providers of information and advice . |
| 27 | When parents are so concerned for the children 's safety that they prevent them from exercising choice and making decisions , they are depriving them of the experience they need in order to cope with life as mature adults . |
| 28 | They have slightly relaxed their demands for absolute obedience to the rules and do not think they are demeaning themselves by giving reasons for their ‘ do 's ’ and ‘ don'ts ’ . |
| 29 | He said When they are stabbing you in the back and behaving totally idiotically . |
| 30 | I took her to Jaén and they are keeping her in hospital until tomorrow at the very least . |