Example sentences of "[vb base] they [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six Arabs — their headdress and robes suggest they are Bedouin — rest beside an ancient well of translucent blue water . |
| 2 | Even when you realise they are dummies , they could still be considered offensive . ’ |
| 3 | you , do n't you mean sometimes they touch they 're brakes |
| 4 | ‘ Say they 're pests . |
| 5 | And there , only sixteen say they 're depressive er people , eighty four no but the great majority here have been depressed from time to time . |
| 6 | Tracy Miles and Susan Little say they 're victims of a policy now adopted by many insurance companies . |
| 7 | Pupils and teachers at Cheney say they 're victims of their own rigourous adherence to guidelines for working out the figures . |
| 8 | But the owners of a pub initially linked with the illness say they 're business is in ruins and their reputation destroyed . |
| 9 | They say they are Jean . |
| 10 | Try to believe it when I say they are PLUMBERS . |
| 11 | If undesirables were eliminated , let them be members of the bourgeoisie , as in Russia , rather than paupers . |
| 12 | Let them be reshod . ’ |
| 13 | Let them be wives to you . |
| 14 | They imagine they 're God 's gift to us ! |
| 15 | Some players find Goblins hard to use because they imagine they are fighters and commit them to combat as if they were Orcs . |
| 16 | She come here , she used to come here with her man , you ken they were tramps , but er she , she was a great one , she used to , she belonged to the West Highlands , and she was a great one for quoting the , the kind of |
| 17 | I hope they 're friends . |
| 18 | I hope they 're coconut . |
| 19 | Waiting the meet them were ACM Sir Brendan Jackson , RAF , Lt Gen Sir Michael Gray , Col Cmdt , Parachute Regiment and Maitre Chef des Cuisines Anton Endelman . |
| 20 | The head of the family when I first remember them was William Henry Bayles who was Grandmother 's cousin and the father of a lady who taught me a little bit of music . |
| 21 | The birds just sort of bob their heads like they 're wind up toys . |
| 22 | We see another bunch of outdoor reporters huddled into their coat collars , clutching mikes like they were chocolate lollies . |
| 23 | They , you know they are members . |
| 24 | I can not find much information on these fish , I only know they are meat eaters , and will grow big . |
| 25 | Include pupils , teachers — even caretakers and dinner ladies if you know they are Christians . |
| 26 | There are those who know they are sinners , confess and try to pursue the good . |
| 27 | ‘ D'yer know they 're atheists ? ’ she said hopefully . |
| 28 | And er it was interesting to the point of view of their attitude to Britain then and er you know they were isolationists of course , you see . |
| 29 | You know they were sort of they were cheap stalls and and the people who came were the bargain hunters . |
| 30 | ‘ If you feel compassion for the Palestinian women and children , ’ Abu Arz proclaimed , ‘ remember they are communists and will bear new communists . ’ |