Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | So there again perhaps try and find somebody who 's from where they 've said they 're from and they might be ticking this box you know . |
| 2 | MESSIEST DESK : Viscount Weymouth 's was reminiscent of what the world must have been like before they invented waste-paper baskets . |
| 3 | During this time I was able to develop some understanding of the sorts of backgrounds my interviewees came from , what their hopes , fears , values and experiences of life had been like before they joined the movement and how these might have changed since . |
| 4 | She thought of the jokes they 'd shared , bundled up chastely in her bed , and she wondered what it would have been like if they had made love . |
| 5 | Like the woman said there , there seems to be a lot of help for people who are on drugs , and who then want to come off them , but the after-care service seems to be you know , a lot erm , there 's not a lot help for the people , they get the help to come off the drugs and then they 're put back into the society that they are from and they seem to still have that pressure to go back to where they were previously . |
| 6 | a terrible ‘ Ow ’ — or totally good — a beautiful ‘ Mm ’ — and when distress is relieved it may well be as if they themselves have conjured up the goodness . |
| 7 | Had they not all agreed when they left Ecalpemos and went their separate ways that it.was to be as if they had never met , known each other , lived together , that in future they must be strangers and more than strangers ? |
| 8 | Ask any manager what it would be like if they lost a striker who scores 20-25 goals a season . |
| 9 | ‘ The family is honestly a pleasure to be with and they 're lovely , well-brought up children . ’ |
| 10 | I liked everything about it , I liked everything about it , mind you I had sore fingers to begin with , very sore , with the filing you see , but also er I was used to thing in a way because there was a little lock shop in mother 's yard er and erm home-made er home-made locks and he used to er and now he used to do them and stamp them and I us I worked his hand press for him before I was fourteen and they were for and they are still and my mother used to take them to Birmingham and erm I think he used to give me sixpence for doing everything I did for him . |
| 11 | ‘ The clubs have that much power over players it 's as if they own them , and this is n't good for the game in the North . |
| 12 | It 's as if they think there 's something wrong with me . |
| 13 | And when a tune like that comes along , it 's as if they 've always known that song , and so then you tap in the song and that 's why you 're doing the record . |
| 14 | But when Gilbert sighs ‘ They give us names like paedophile , racist — all the names you can imagine ’ , it 's as if they wonder what all the fuss is about . |
| 15 | It 's as if they 're saying : ‘ There 's a ten foot wall — jump over it . ’ |
| 16 | It 's as if they 're expecting you to fail academically ; and , if the teacher expects you to fail , then you begin to believe it yourself and you do . |
| 17 | It 's as if they have a life of their own . ’ |
| 18 | It 's as if they think I 'm really Firmin and then from time to time I just pretend to be this white man called Charlie . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's as if they were being rammed by an invisible man , ’ he said . |
| 20 | It 's as if they ca n't stop . |
| 21 | It 's as if they 're bowling on a totally different pitch . ’ |
| 22 | Our parliamentary group does not appear to be in touch with grassroots opinion — it 's as if they are on another planet . |
| 23 | Better , yes , better than erm , some , in the old days when you used to take those photo 's they used to be awful did n't they , erm , everybody sort of look 's as if they were staring and sort of all |
| 24 | In the same way that man can not live under water , so while people are totally immersed in the water , it is as if they are dead . |
| 25 | When men live in the transcendent they become lost to the world ; it is as if they speak an unknown language and are no longer understood by other men . |
| 26 | With each attack , it is as if they are meeting the distasteful animal tor the first time . |
| 27 | It is as if they are non-existent . |
| 28 | It is as if they are saying , ‘ We believe in Jesus because he proved who he was by working miracles . ’ |
| 29 | It is as if they can find no other way of being in school than one which feels phoney and uncongenial . |
| 30 | I have subsequently discovered in them something which is not easy to admit even to myself : it is as if they anticipated the present . |