Example sentences of "they [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I ask a question on the this er , the speaker said er erm that it will be down so that they on er er or no particular help on his accordance but o on these here , o on the ones this is n't the case . |
| 2 | There what are they on about ? |
| 3 | And so I , you know some people would have , why I do n't know whether they on they 're television so you can and check out what , what they want , whatever . |
| 4 | He has n't finished yet with his are they on or a finger ? |
| 5 | What were they on ! |
| 6 | There who are they on about three four three four three four to call it 's er a very public figure very public you 're bound to have heard of him you 've probably seen him as well I would have thought I would have thought so as some stage picture always in the paper there as well you know nice big swanky car too . |
| 7 | This is Radio Nottingham it 's a quarter past one at these are the clues for Kids ' County what are they on about here ? |
| 8 | Who are they on about here ? |
| 9 | Who are they on about ? |
| 10 | Not engineers to do radiators , what are they on ? |
| 11 | When they on ? |
| 12 | Of course , such con- ditions did not disgrace every mill , nor were they wholly absent outside the factory system . |
| 13 | In the evenings they mostly camped . |
| 14 | They mostly excel in their industry — the skill with which they irrigate their terraced hillsides with tiny runnels of water shows a considerable advancement in agriculture . |
| 15 | Singing is almost entirely confined to breeding grounds , most singers are males , and they mostly sing alone . |
| 16 | Women can drive cars , taxis , buses , trucks , diggers , lawn-mowers — that sort of thing , though in the West they mostly do n't ( except cars ) because of tradition . ’ |
| 17 | She said they mostly wore silky slips and dressing-gowns . |
| 18 | ‘ Racing people do have flexible hours , ’ he observed , ‘ and they mostly have free afternoons . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I thought , ‘ well , it 's the Boat Race , not very high-powered crews considering they mostly do other things ’ . |
| 20 | With rapid depletion of fertility in the Tidewater land many settlers moved onto the Piedmont where they mostly repeated their mistakes . |
| 21 | Smaller family farmers have been neglected and offered derisory prices for the products they mostly sell ( e.g. cassava and honey , see Chambers and Singer 1980 ) . |
| 22 | They do not , however , collect bone , and they mostly gnaw larger pieces of bone rather than small mammal bone . |
| 23 | This meant that farming was the likeliest occupation for RCM boys , even though they mostly came from urban professional and commercial backgrounds and had a positive aversion to rural life . |
| 24 | There were Polish and Dutch boats as well as the Scottish , but they mostly packed their catch to take home . |
| 25 | The only whites in the area were winos and dealers , and they mostly ended up in the river . |
| 26 | There existed other newspapers aimed at the European market , such as the daily Tanganyika Opinion and the weekly Tanganyika Advertiser , but their circulations were low and they mostly disappeared long before independence . |
| 27 | They mostly feed at dawn and dusk , so try feeding yours at these times , offering earthworms and pieces of fish . |
| 28 | soc : Yes , but they mostly seem to have people like you assessing the proposals . |
| 29 | What they mostly overlooked was the possibility of using state power to allocate credit to specific sectors — shipbuilding in Korea , for example , or steel in Taiwan — or for special groups of borrowers — the chaebol and more recently the smaller , export-oriented Korean firms . |
| 30 | They mostly consisted of Camberwell students . |