Example sentences of "they [be] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | How long have they been here ? |
| 2 | That smile had gone , though , when Rosemary went on , ‘ Fortunately , my parents were n't in — I just do n't know what I 'd have done had they been here . |
| 3 | What 've they been up to now then ? |
| 4 | You want to choose one there , they been very busy , have they been very busy up there the old canteen then ? |
| 5 | You want to choose one there , they been very busy , have they been very busy up there the old canteen then ? |
| 6 | Had they been anywhere else but on the sleekly beautiful boat she would have rounded on Nathan with a devastating tirade and cut the ground from under his feet . |
| 7 | Subjects may instead simply have given good estimates of the risk which they would have felt had they been actually present in the situations . |
| 8 | Speaking on Feb. 27 , Schwarzkopf confirmed that allied forces could have gone on to take the Iraqi capital had they been so ordered . |
| 9 | Never had they been so great a power in the country . |
| 10 | The late arrival by 13 minutes of three of their key players left Peterlee with too much work to do at Consett where they went down in a first division game by 91 points to 58 as they were left wondering what effect Ivor James , Gord Laing and Allen Quarmby might have had had they been there for the start . |
| 11 | Have they been there all week ? |
| 12 | Have they been as bad for you , darling ? ’ |
| 13 | Wherever possible , however , the counsellor must take into consideration what the counsellees might themselves have wanted had they been sufficiently well to have made the judgement themselves . |
| 14 | ‘ We do n't want to see things dragged on indefinitely , but they are repeatedly delaying a solution to the problem . ’ |
| 15 | However , many inexperienced pilots get so thoroughly engrossed in the thermalling or what is going on elsewhere that they are temporarily ‘ switched off ’ to how they are flying . |
| 16 | The majority of children come into care at the request of their parents , because they are temporarily unable to look after them , and they will return to their own homes in due course . |
| 17 | If we have a night sitting service , an elderly person may not have to go in hospital if they are temporarily gone off their legs as sometimes happens . |
| 18 | But once on the move they are devilishly difficult to stop , as is Villa 's right winger , Daley . |
| 19 | Camp sites there are in plenty , but they are discreetly sited . |
| 20 | ‘ But they are understandably reluctant to pay for research students , because they will probably go off and join the competition . |
| 21 | Some , like the hardline godfather Chen Yun , are so infirm they are rarely seen in public . |
| 22 | Part of the trick of a successful television documentary is to make each comment delivered within it sound spontaneous : they are rarely anything of the sort . |
| 23 | ( I did n't catch these because they are rarely taken on rod and line , but herrings make excellent bait for skate and pike . |
| 24 | In Canada and the United States there are coroners , but they are rarely used . |
| 25 | It is a mark of the success of the policy that although they are often regarded as real people , they are rarely treated as such . |
| 26 | Horses have a need for movement : they are rarely still . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , they are rarely used individually and to the exclusion of all other forms of communication , so they need to be considered all together ; each form of communication adding a little more to the message the horse is sending . |
| 28 | Although these disorders are genetic in origin , they are rarely inherited . |
| 29 | Unlike parish churches , they are rarely open except at service times , so if ever you see the door of a chapel open — when it is being cleaned or the organist is practising — be sure to go inside . |
| 30 | First , they are rarely posed as clearly as this ; things tend to happen incrementally or interstitially . |