Example sentences of "they be [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they are taking her to the High Court . |
| 2 | Many solicitors , in writing a letter for a client , will misrepresent the law , even though they are addressing themselves to a layman , and will lend themselves to various abuses and suppressions ( not involving a breach of law ) in order to obstruct a just claim . |
| 3 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 4 | " The [ communist ] movement is starting to fade away , they are alienating themselves from the people , " Buscayno told an interviewer . |
| 5 | I have no doubt about it that the government are urging us at this moment , er I I am concerned about that , they are urging us by the er |
| 6 | A group of kids are on a roundabout , one foot on and one foot off , they are pushing it at a giddy speed , round and around until their faces form a single banded blur . |
| 7 | When parents are so concerned for the children 's safety that they prevent them from exercising choice and making decisions , they are depriving them of the experience they need in order to cope with life as mature adults . |
| 8 | He said When they are stabbing you in the back and behaving totally idiotically . |
| 9 | All this trouble they are giving us despite the fact that I have a UK passport . |
| 10 | Trainees will probably need a lot of guidance in completing the exercise in Handout 14 both because they are doing it without the benefit of parents and in order to keep their CBs both objective and closely related to the PBs . |
| 11 | ‘ The only difference between Lee and Roy Keane and David Hirst is that they are doing it in the Premier League . |
| 12 | They are making me into an addict , so that I may never leave home … . |
| 13 | R's like they are putting you in a helpless position and expecting you to be able to operate from there . |
| 14 | They are leading us in the direction of a central truth about life on Earth , the truth that I alluded to in my opening paragraph about willow seeds . |
| 15 | They 're casting him as a woman . |
| 16 | It 's a couple of hours ’ drive from Berlin , and they 're expecting us in the morning . |
| 17 | Well I think I 've been rather more fortunate , the two branch managers I 've had er , before , I 'd not had long enough , er , both have given albeit not regular , but feedback both positive and negative , er , when you 're doing a good job and when you 're doing a bad job , and er , in all honesty , it 's probably the appraisal itself , that 's actually been unnecessary because of their feedback they 're given me during the year , because the appraisal is just a formal repetition of what 's already been said . |
| 18 | like for a kick off , he went down to the skip last Saturday , the tip , we had , er he was clearing out the back yard , he took some rubble and boxes and things down there , and he was talking to the fellow there they said oh , he said er they were shutting this skip , er they 're moving it down the road and you 'll have to pay , you 'll have to pay to tip your rubbish |
| 19 | Yah , they 're taking it off the satellite and it used to be there was always the seven o'clock news , except in central side when it was always the six o'clock news , but now it 's on at like any old time , five thirty , six thirty , seven . |
| 20 | Oh , 'cos they 're taking it from the East Coast feed . |
| 21 | They 're promoting themselves to a very significant extent on the basis that they 're selling at cheaper prices to the public . |
| 22 | And the way the management work in here , I can say is they , aim they 're promoting anybody to a chargehand they usually promote somebody that 's actually no threat to themselves . |
| 23 | They 're saving them for the Open . ’ |
| 24 | It 's chamber music , to all intents and purposes , and they 're receiving it like a home run . |
| 25 | And erm so if they 're buying it on the , on the market , th the company should pay a fair price for , for what they 've bought . |
| 26 | With chains and gags and — dirt — This week , ever so efficiently filing records for this surgeon , I just happened to come across a sixteen-year-old who had his leg off last year — they 're fitting him with an artificial one , it takes months , they 're incredibly slow — and it 's started up for certain now in his other leg , he does n't know , but I know , I know lots of things . |
| 27 | The bill , th the , it 's three thousand pound , and they 're asking us for a thousand . |
| 28 | They 're having it at the co , at the university because David 's mother has some connection . |
| 29 | well no they 're having it in the er , that one against top of the market , what is it called er ? |
| 30 | They 're keeping me to the contract … wanting their pound o ’ flesh . |