Example sentences of "they be [adj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When they are necessary I try to arrange that they cause as little disturbance as possible . ’ |
| 2 | But when we 're dealing as we are in this case , with fraud , then clearly there has to be regulations , there has to be er primary legislation er so that was the point I 'm making but as I say , it 's not just me , it 's the stock exchange , the S I B , all of them believe that we need a single enforcement body to look at these matters and I do wish perhaps the minister does but the government must acc eople and a number of ople obviously with a number of traumas and a number of di exploit the different rules and regulations and to get through them because they know they are never going to be caught and the little chance of being prosecuted and even if they are prosecuted er then the chances of being convicted are remote and even if they are convicted I 'm afraid that the judicial shi system shows er that the worst they can expect is a few hours mowing the grass in front of an old folks home or perhaps a few months er in the country residence , albeit owned by Her Majesty . |
| 3 | Erm if if they are useful I will ask him to box them up and send them . |
| 4 | Because they are white I had not occasion to exercise any choice of colours , but I can scarcely knit everything in white . |
| 5 | ‘ They 're convinced I 'm American . |
| 6 | ‘ They 're convinced I 'm American . |
| 7 | that this will be the last year because er from next year well irrespective of whether they 're sequestered I hope our sponsorship money wo n't be sequestered with it but |
| 8 | But if they 're dry I just fold them up and put them away anyway . |
| 9 | You 're all having arguments about that , you all go to the pictures , an early showing , you go home , bung a Marks and Spencer 's meal into the oven , they 're great I could live on it , O K , just bung it into the oven , pull out the cork , then you sit down , wind down the week , couple of sherbets , maybe a glass of brandy , one o'clock in the morning , here we come , and all the rest of it , sort the world out , Friday night , wind down , enjoy the weekend . |
| 10 | Mm there 's the Bare Naked Ladies er they come from Canada they are a brilliant group I think they 're brilliant I do n't care I like them and that 's called er Be My Yoko Ono I was going to go from the Bare Naked Ladies it was all planned I was going to go and say Mary Whitehouse how are you today and she was there er un unfortunately we 've we called this is serious . |
| 11 | Then if they 're anti I 'll move . ’ |
| 12 | If they 're fresh I mean |
| 13 | They 're clean I 'll have you know , look how shiny they are . |
| 14 | But if they 're sick I mean there 's no way I can take them to anybody 's house . |
| 15 | And they 're open for almost seven days yeah on Saturdays they 're open I think they do n't open on the Sunday until ten o'clock . |
| 16 | No ? changed brands of coffee or something they 're horrible I do n't know what she 's doing different alright lovey , okay shush shush shush shush showing her little heart out is n't she ? |
| 17 | I mean when they 're full I 've noticed when , we they were standing in the gangway . |
| 18 | If they 're beautiful I can buy them again . |
| 19 | read the lot , I mean , look what they doing language-wise , they 're reading , they 're evaluating , they 're projecting I mean , the that , they 're doing quite complicated things there , and also hopefully there will be enough space where they have the opportunity to put something that is meaningful and they 're involved in the dialogue with the form |
| 20 | Their replies to my questions may not be those that I had in mind , but by telling them that they were incorrect I would probably have ensured that they would not be so willing to answer again . |
| 21 | that 's what they used to do when they were young I always made two cakes . |
| 22 | Oh well , they were certain I did anyway . |
| 23 | They were , fortunately , not identical , though why I should be pleased they were unidentical I do n't know , as identical twins are conceived of the same coupling ; unidentical very often of two separate couplings , and so far as I was concerned the less sexual congress Hugo and his Stephanie had the better . |
| 24 | The stuck needles in me and wheeled me in and out of X-ray rooms peering inside for evidence of the impacted fracture they were sure I had . |
| 25 | They were sure I could expect a large present from her , either before or after her death . |
| 26 | ‘ They were afraid I was going to do a hatchet job , being from the City , but I have n't found an instance where I would want to get rid of anyone . ’ |
| 27 | But as the years went on , they were useless I mean er they were just talking shops . |
| 28 | ‘ They were concerned I would do something gruesome or speak critically about what went on in the ward . ’ |