Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] you [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are expecting you to say something nice . |
| 2 | what they are doing you see , an authorized dealer , well even a non-authorized dealer get hold of a piece of kit and then somebody say want this system , right okay , and they just have a big load of forms for maintenance agreements and all they do the dealer 'll go along and put this kit in , B T 'll come along and say yeah that conforms to regulations , sign here , the customer er sign here , the dealer send the maintenance agreement to us , we signed it , send it back , we 've never even seen it , then we turn up and find that the main control unit 's high up in the attic or in a damp cellar , in a cupboard where you ca n't see it , there 's no light and stuff like that and we 're taking jobs on like that and it you know , it 's just impossible to work on them |
| 3 | They 're hooked you see . |
| 4 | I do n't think we need to type an enquiry , I think that the people who realise that , the fact that you had got there is meant to indicate to you that name of the firm was Mallard , and therefore by using by using Mallards , sausage skins , they 're expecting you to use apostrophe s . |
| 5 | It 's as if they 're expecting you to fail academically ; and , if the teacher expects you to fail , then you begin to believe it yourself and you do . |
| 6 | High blocks they 're , they 're called you know . |
| 7 | I do n't know what they 're called you know . |
| 8 | You want to pat yourself on your , on your back and think you know what a good boy I am , or what a good girl I am , and of course you 're doing , your superego is doing to you what your parents would 've done as , as , when you were a child , they 're rewarding you saying good boy , good girl , have n't you been good ? |
| 9 | They 're telling you like how much ho how to ge gauge how much money you 're gon na be able to take out on a mortgage |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps they 're using you to try to get to me , ’ Julius suggested . |
| 11 | They 're teaching you to express personality at the Slade — personality in general . |
| 12 | I mean , they 're begging 'em you to ke they 're begging you to keep 'em on at school , and yet you ca n't get no help to keep 'em on . |
| 13 | Yeah , they 're asking you to do a survey thing . |
| 14 | These have got the time signature in but you 're , they 're asking you to put in the bar lines and then grouping the notes properly . |
| 15 | So they 're saying you know , to , to prove that it 's viable they they 'll give you poly if you could have a poly-tunnel . |
| 16 | Now some of the girls And they 're released you know , some of the girls were arrested what two or three times a night . |
| 17 | And erm I said to her , dad 's overall 's in the machine so when they 're finished you hand them on the line . |
| 18 | If people are gon na sit around the house while they 're unemployed , they 're probably the same people who sit around the house when they 're on a Saturday and Sunday when they 're working you know . |
| 19 | You , you ca n't have a transport football team because you ca n't get enough of us together at one time cos they 're working you see , when people want to go to and from work but er |
| 20 | If if if you have the people doing it who know what they 're doing you 've really only got to look at what they 're counting . |
| 21 | . See they 're making you cough now . |
| 22 | Hey , wait a minute , should n't they be paying you to advertise their wares ? |
| 23 | But I daresay , if you were speaking to some of the older men in the shipyard er who had worked in a shipyard before my time , that er a lot of riveters , a lot of tradesmen of all all kinds , found it hard to get employment once they were they were sacked you know . |
| 24 | For he was n't clever enough to hide them , exactly , he stumbled through you see and and er of course they they were exposed you see , for all to see . |
| 25 | But Portobello branch went further They were urging you see , the national executive committee , to take industrial action immediately you see . |
| 26 | Well , you know when I used to come to you walk across cos of the trams , Christmas day , all down Argyle Street every a a ev , they were bulging you know ! |
| 27 | I thought they were helping you to do that . |
| 28 | Are , are yards bigger today than they were do you think ? |
| 29 | And then we used to after that , we used to go out , every in the morning and at night , taking some feed out , to them wherever they were do you see . |
| 30 | but you hate to think at the same time what happened how they were burning you hate to think of |