Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a start , right , erm all her clothes then right and I mean loads of them are ones they 're really horrible like but she just hangs them here , I thought well you ca n't wear them , you know , all horrible , you do n't wear them fold them , put them away |
| 2 | I was suspect they the same problem with France and Germany . |
| 3 | Well cos at er , there were n't enough tide to take it away , I mean you ta you get clay well that 's , that 's solid and the amount of stuff I was dredge they use and use it , now we 're not the only ones got it , they got people from Harwich , people from Felixstowe , they were all dumping out there . |
| 4 | and when you 're kids they seemed so big ! |
| 5 | Yeah the master walked past , if they had been boys they would have said something , you know , go into your study and do some work , do something you know , but because they were girls th we were girls they did n't |
| 6 | That surviving half-page on Alexandria with its three classes of people is memorable : the Egyptians , " an acute and civilized race " ; the mercenaries , " a numerous , rough and uncultivated set " ; and the Alexandrians themselves , " a people not genuinely civilized … but still superior to the mercenaries for though they are mongrels they came from a Greek stock and have not forgotten Greek customs " ( 34.14 ) . |
| 7 | And they are gulls they are invisible they are human |
| 8 | On the one hand , if they are mothers they are more likely to delay seeking help from their GP for fear that their children will be taken into care . |
| 9 | If they are members they would find it difficult to refute charges of a breach of the Code of Conduct . |
| 10 | If they are voluminous , they are not notes — if they are notes they are not voluminous . |
| 11 | They 've got several in erm I suppose they are sport they are sport shoes covers running . |
| 12 | Although they are characters they can not move or fight on their own , because they are part of their Mob . |
| 13 | They have to explain that although they 're priests they 're really not credulous nitwits , and then they feel they have to go further and they end up writing books about it and yapping away on the television . ’ |
| 14 | If they were working they 'd be going to discos , but because they ca n't work they stay at home , and because they 're girls they do the housework , though they feel they are doing somebody else 's housework . |
| 15 | Positional isomerism is very obvious the only thing you have to watch out for , if the give you structural formulae especially multi-choice papers they 're buggers they are when they , when they do this sometimes ! |
| 16 | Because they 're favourites they wo n't win |
| 17 | And if they 're professionals they 'll know it , too . |
| 18 | Martin they 're not , they 're games , they 're games they 're not are there ? |
| 19 | Oh they 're nutters they are ! |
| 20 | But they do n't speak any English , I do n't speak any Arabic , so I 'm gesturing away about the bar-tailed lark and not being able to go into the forbidden zone , and somehow or other the leader understands what I 'm going on about and makes me understand that because they 're nomads they do n't have to follow international boundaries . |
| 21 | If they 're minors they wo n't even get their name in the paper . |
| 22 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 23 | They 've invited other representatives , including some from the Borough Council : and if they were women they could n't have gone . |
| 24 | Except that if they were cowboys they would be dead . |
| 25 | They , I mean if they were , if they were tigers they would n't do it would they ? |
| 26 | If they were slips they would n't |
| 27 | Humans , robots , cyborgs , androids and aliens : If they were serfs they all had to strip off before going through Arrivals Registration . |
| 28 | I think they get , I think it 's Mold they go |
| 29 | They know it 's sympathy they need . |
| 30 | I mean it 's different if it 's clothes they need , good . |