Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say it 's time they were paid for doing a full time job , which dominates their lives and saves the state thirty billion pounds each year … |
| 2 | But they hold it is witchcraft which singled out this particular victim for attack and made him the target of the animal 's assault . |
| 3 | They know it 's sympathy they need . |
| 4 | I do n't think they know it 's Blagg they 're looking for , and if they do n't know that , they wo n't know about Tanner . |
| 5 | They think we are people who just put things in envelopes — there is a certain snobbery about it . ’ |
| 6 | Anyway , to judge by the magazine 's groovy post-modern orange cover , they think it was Penguin who killed British fiction , which seems a little harsh . |