Example sentences of "be [adv] they [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I think maybe if the girls had been in they might have been a bit shier and felt you know , oh we have to act you know , the lads . |
| 2 | You may have been in they may been in the infants when |
| 3 | If they are not they should be bought . |
| 4 | Disguise or not , if we 're together they 'll look at us harder . ’ |
| 5 | Now remember they 're not they ca n't be counted as your boss |
| 6 | When they 're well they wo n't do that . |
| 7 | ‘ So that if they 're there they 'll see us . ’ |
| 8 | And if you 're good tonight while you 're upstairs they can come again . |
| 9 | It was not the quantity of stars that was so impressive , though if there had been more they would have blended into a whitewash , nor was it their brilliance , though they were a dazzling variation of colour and size , but that they seemed alive . |
| 10 | Honestly if it was them that had to stuff those navy blue fitted sheets into the automatic after he 's been home they 'd be Under No Delusions . |
| 11 | It might well prove to be all they could do to find their way across the heather to some quiet field or copse-bank like those they had been used to . |
| 12 | There may not be much they can do , but what else is there going for you now ? ’ |
| 13 | So it might be then they might have taped it ? |
| 14 | I 've got to take in a promotional drinks party first , and as the Press will be there they 'll focus on you like the leeches they are because you 'll be a new face . ’ |
| 15 | Well I 'm course they will ! |
| 16 | Had vocation advisors been around they would doubtless have recommended a commercial future on the scientific side . |
| 17 | If the press are here they can safe safely hear the items , if they 're not here it does n't matter . |
| 18 | If they have n't been there they will just not be able to relate to it . ’ |
| 19 | These early nautiloids were probably predators also , and if this were so they may have been the first rapidly moving , efficient hunters in the sea . |
| 20 | I often think er and then of course you see if , if they er the airmen , their wives used to try and get er digs near where the aerodromes were so they could see their menfolk . |
| 21 | Here is an extract from the minutes of January 10 : ‘ J Peeke brought to the attention of the committee that she only had one set of keys , not two like stated at the Christmas Party when a councillor asked where the Space Invaders keys were so they could have a few free games . ’ |
| 22 | Mind you , I suppose if the others were in they 'd do exactly the same thing would n't they ? |
| 23 | They spent the time there swimming and walking , and when the holidays were over they used to return home . |
| 24 | If they were not they would n't be rocks , they would be sand . |
| 25 | I happen to drive a very small car er a Fiat one , two , six and you ca n't get much smaller than that and I am much more aggressive when I 'm driving that for the simple reason I think its this sort of principle although I 'm nearly six foot in that I 'm a small person and the small person mentality comes out because I get cut up continuously , they do n't do that when I 'm driving my husband 's car which is a Volvo , er they will cut in front of me , I do n't think they , if they knew what my brakes were like they would n't do it . |
| 26 | The extraordinary thing was , you could see them coming down on to the leaves as you passed and waving their heads around , sniffing , and when you were underneath they would just drop and go straight down your neck , or on to your ears , hundreds of them . |
| 27 | Who is essential is for the organisers to decide , but the ‘ non-essentials ’ who sit on platforms are basically either ignorant of the art of presentation or disdainful of it — if they were n't they would n't be there . |
| 28 | As for their children , they would not be allowed to live in Britain for any length of time , and while they were here they would be prevented from attending school . |
| 29 | They had their valets with them and they were here they would been maybe I saw them at the time . |
| 30 | And erm I mean they were quite they would n't they would n't get rid of a baby , but a lot of people thought they would . |