Example sentences of "[vb past] they be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the fall in population more land became available , and those peasants who survived found they were being offered more favourable landholding terms by some lords and left the poorer lands for vacant richer lands elsewhere . |
| 2 | They all laughed and it helped to relieve the tension , but when they returned to the occupational health centre , far from being criticised for their performance , they heard only praise and found they were being treated as heroes . |
| 3 | Tenants in a house at Brockworth near Gloucester , who say they 've been paying rent for six months , barracaded themselves in when they heard they were being evicted because their landlord had defaulted on his mortgage . |
| 4 | Mark realised they were being followed by the police . |
| 5 | People got tired of interviewing him because they felt they were being made fools of . |
| 6 | Women felt they were being asked to fulfil two contradictory roles , that of the homemaker and the seductress , simultaneously . |
| 7 | It seems she felt they were being used as unpaid labour . |
| 8 | We found ( Appendix II , section 5 ) that on one London estate where we held group discussions several people lived at addresses which they said had been blacklisted in this way , because of bad payers who had lived there before them ; as a consequence , they felt they were being made to suffer from the bad reputation of the previous tenants . |
| 9 | Holman stresses that lack of contact did not necessarily reflect parental wishes ( in fact nearly half of the parents wanted their children back ) , but parents felt they were being tacitly excluded by the agency . |
| 10 | The decision to postpone the Second Front , first to 1843 and then to 1944 , was deeply displeasing to the Russians , who felt they were being left to bear the brunt of the fighting against Germany . |
| 11 | I was being crushed at the sides but my feet felt they were being pulled . ’ |
| 12 | If these countries felt they were being exploited by having to run a surplus and thus provide finance for the US deficit , such behaviour would be quite incomprehensible . |
| 13 | But only one in three felt they were being told all they needed to know . |
| 14 | And they felt they were being exploited . |
| 15 | The Americans knew they were being led a dance , but the urge to rescue hostages — premised on high emotion and some amount of electoral calculation — drove the policy forward . |
| 16 | Our special-needs unit is a good example : the children knew they were being stretched and their feelings of achievement and self-esteem went up markedly . |
| 17 | She says that she knew they were being pushed down the hill and she screamed when she felt the flames . |
| 18 | Yeah it does , you see if Ken and Freda or anybody knew they were being televised they 'd be careful of what they said |
| 19 | The woman explains that she probably still has , though she understood they were being paid off and the rent was paid direct through the DHSS . |
| 20 | After a time they used me as a courier : everybody else on the staff thought they were being watched . |
| 21 | Some survivors complained they were being herded towards the site of the second bomb and were only 50ft away when it exploded . |
| 22 | Pauline said they 're are a success . |
| 23 | He strongly denied the suggestion that the militias were unruly , and said they were being slowly incorporated into the regular army . |
| 24 | The spokesman said they were being questioned . |
| 25 | The switch has surprised Wembley , who expected a home game against Spain , and has disappointed the Spanish FA , who hoped they were being invited to London for only the second time in 20 years . |
| 26 | She said how glad she was they had somewhere nice to stay and that she hoped they were being good and making their beds and helping with the washing up and remembering to clean their teeth . |