Example sentences of "[prep] they [coord] [pers pn] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called bromeliads and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and the world is full of things like that and now I know about them and I 'm never ever going to be able to see them and then you , ’ she gulped for breath , ‘ want me to come and live with you in a hole and wash your socks ! ’ |
| 2 | steps up and right footed he blasts it into the bottom corner , it subdues the Shrewsbury crowd somewhat , Blackburn fans are rampant because at last there 's some light for them but they 're still trailing Shrewsbury by three goals to two . |
| 3 | Meeting people from all over the world became a hobby for them and they were both very happy to tun it into a way of life . |
| 4 | An awkward silence came between them and he was more than grateful when Mister Tom called out to him . |
| 5 | ‘ But sometimes a band has a magic balance between them and it 's so wonderful . |
| 6 | I , well I just did n't realize it was anything like that , I had I 've had four children and the last one there was thirteen years difference between them and it was really , really terrible ! |
| 7 | He did n't turn his head to look after them and he was so still that even at a short distance they could no longer distinguish him from his surroundings . |
| 8 | They were usually billed as the star attraction so John obviously made a good profit out of them but they were still paid at the same rate as all his juveniles , five shillings a week . |
| 9 | ‘ There are n't enough of them and they 're just not up to the standards women want . |
| 10 | Like everything else on Barbados , life is very relaxed for the pair of them and they are never on a lead , but perhaps one of them should be tethered ! |
| 11 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 12 | He could outmanoeuvre them if he wished but he could not get rid of them and he was only groping round in circles about the tree he had made his own . |
| 13 | In the case of Dr Jordan , they have the figures in front of them and it 's quite understandable that questions should be asked about his unusually high night-time payments . |
| 14 | I can distrain them damage feasant , but what I want to do is to get rid of them and I am certainly not bound to incur the expense of packing and returning them . |
| 15 | Aviation was one of them and I was completely fascinated by the thrill of flying , so much so that I thought seriously of giving up journalism and becoming an aviator . |
| 16 | There had been one or two religious groups in school , I remembered , but I had n't belonged to any of them and I was fairly sure Alec had n't either . |
| 17 | Hostages have also been taken , and it 's this fact that finally provokes the free world into action ( you can mindlessly slaughter millions of our citizens , but try kidnappin' any of 'em and you 're really in trouble ! ) . |
| 18 | You go back to all the times you 've had with them and they are very , very real . |
| 19 | They had their valets with them and they were here they would been maybe I saw them at the time . |
| 20 | And while we were , while we were there we had some invitations to , to dine out with well it was my daughter 's and we went and had a meal with them and they were quite taken back by er they lived in this little which originally I had thought was a was a er a poultry house . |
| 21 | However , the London season was almost upon them and she was more cheerful than she 'd been for weeks . |
| 22 | I could not see exactly what was in them but it was more than curiosity . |
| 23 | I , m just water swirling round them and they 're too busy to feel me . |
| 24 | We 're not expecting trouble from them and we 're there to help and direct them into the areas where they can get into the ground . |
| 25 | Some girl 's going out with a boy , he zipped her tent up over them and she was so shocked she pulled her trousers down by accident . |
| 26 | It is going to be nine and a half times the footprint of Hambleton three and a half times the footprint of Brayton Bath it will tower in its mass beside them and it is totally unreasonable and wrong for anybody to describe it as merely of local concern . |
| 27 | ‘ I did write to them but I was just snubbed . ’ |
| 28 | The hare and the hatter also decide to put the poor little dormouse into the teapot , which is rather cruel because he did n't do anything to them and it is rather a strange thing for his companions to do . |
| 29 | These interpretations have met some opposition on two main counts : very few of the presumed terraces have beach material on them and they are so fragmentary as to rouse the criticism that their interpretation is at times subjective rather than objective . |
| 30 | Because if they 're flat , all the water collects on them and it 's more likely to like , something 's more likely to happen to it . |