Example sentences of "they [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was him putting them through was n't it ? |
| 2 | I like them for being different , ’ said Corman . |
| 3 | Instead of blaming them for a small error , I praise them for being 99 percent perfect . |
| 4 | I admire them for being so up front about their religious activity because it puts them right in the front line against anti-Semitism . ’ |
| 5 | The girls exchanged nervous glances , thinking that it must be Miss Hardbroom come to reprimand them for being out of bed . |
| 6 | They were shooed away by the Sheikha , who rebuked them for being naughty and greeted me almost in the same breath . |
| 7 | I admire them for being able to sit there in front of everybody and say they actually , what they 've been through because it must have been sheer hell er , trying to come off and withdrawal symptoms , I mean , I do n't know much about it cos I 've never taken well I smoke |
| 8 | If a person has become disabled through no fault of their own and they 're not going to be provided with a benefit which would compensate them for being out of work , they will suffer enormously . ’ |
| 9 | They undoubtedly deserve them for being flexible enough to listen to the people and to bodies like the Royal Fine Arts Commission and for thinking up the innovative scheme itself . |
| 10 | He criticised them for being ‘ too optimistic as to what is and what is not possible to us ’ , and also for under-estimating the enemy 's ability to launch a major offensive . |
| 11 | Yeah but a lo a lot of quotes gon na be made to them after are n't there ? |
| 12 | For two days running , thousands of commuters had to leave trains to walk along the tracks , some of them after being stranded between stations for six hours . |
| 13 | Some of the authors were former activists imprisoned after the Tiananmen Incident who made contacts while in detention and maintained them after being released . |
| 14 | From there they were handed over to the Americans , who suspected them of being spies and treated them accordingly . |
| 15 | Critics of opponents to development frequently accuse them of being blinded by nostalgia and motivated by personal vested interest . |
| 16 | After the game , Hungarian officials lodged a complaint against the Newcastle team , specifically Gallacher , accusing them of being drunk and disorderly . |
| 17 | The accuser of the brethren is always on hand to accuse them of being a failure or out , of the will of God . |
| 18 | In September of that year he wrote to Pepys , Locke and other friends accusing them of being atheists or Catholics , and of trying to embroil him with women . |
| 19 | Then she turned on the crowd and accused them of being cowards . |
| 20 | The only other black person in the car accused them of being racist , which made one of the other men indignant and started an argument . |
| 21 | Others discriminate against students on grounds of sexual orientation when they suspect them of being gay or lesbian ; others on class or a whole range of subjective , stereotypical responses to the unfamiliar . |
| 22 | He wrote a series of letters to Pepys , Locke and other friends , accusing them of being atheists and Catholics . |
| 23 | The Somerset establishment ganged up on them , wrongly accused them of being troublemakers , and one committee member tried shamefully to get them sacked from their newspapers . |
| 24 | Criticizing the Greens for becoming a " bourgeois party " , Ditfurth accused them of being too keen to ally with the SPD ( in Hesse and Lower Saxony ) , and of abandoning , at a tumultuous April 26-28 congress in Neumünster ( Schleswig-Holstein ) , the rotation of party posts . |
| 25 | One might have suspected them of being adverbs that simply lacked the ordinary morphological marking , as in : ( 12 ) Grandmother took the corner too fast However , one can conclusively show that this is not so by finding examples where the predicate qualifiers fill a position which can also be occupied by a true adverb ; here we observe that the effect is strikingly different . |
| 26 | No one could accuse them of being dead to all delight . |
| 27 | But what young members , what young people find ironic , is that the same people who are telling them they 've never had it so good , in the same breath accuse them of being responsible for high community crime levels , drug and alcohol abuse and the violence . |
| 28 | Mr Taylor described the visitors as ‘ meddlers ’ and accused them of being ‘ at the forefront of a campaign to get Northern Ireland out of the United Kingdom ’ . |
| 29 | At first it was felt that this was caused by their failure to understand what was required of them despite being notified by the Board , the NEC , through the pages of The Embalmer as well as at Divisional meetings , but it is apparent that there is an element of tutors who deliberately do not follow the guidelines and rules , ignore well publicised and individually notified closing dates for entry and submission of coursework results , presumably to try and ‘ force ’ the Institute to return to the ‘ old ’ system . |
| 30 | Having brought them into being with your eyes , you tried to force them back in again before they writhed and proliferated everywhere . |