Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] they [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll go to look for where they were born and bred . |
| 2 | ‘ At the end of the day I 've got three kids to look after and they 're going to get stick in school over this . ’ |
| 3 | Soon , however , they found themselves in a nightmare situation for although they were walking towards the train they seemed to get no nearer to it . |
| 4 | exactly but because of that they 're playing the ball through the Forest er midfield and they are looking a lot better side . |
| 5 | Well I mean , if we 're talking about sort of and they 're looking for a sense of identity of whatever it is that they 're having of |
| 6 | The question could be thought to arise of whether they are seeking revenge . |
| 7 | Finally , Schrager and Short focus on ‘ illegal ’ acts , but they do not stress that this refers to acts punishable by the state regardless of whether they are subsumed under civil , administrative , or criminal law . |
| 8 | Merit goods ( bads ) are goods that society thinks everyone ought to have ( ought not to have ) regardless of whether they are wanted by each individual . |
| 9 | Looked at in this way , terrestrial zodiacs can have a role regardless of whether they are considered objectively ‘ real ’ or not . |
| 10 | Most individual actors do not rely upon their own judgment of whether they are doing well in the action , but refer to certain members whose real or even fancied reactions are taken as the expression of binding judgments of propriety . |
| 11 | The library of the future would be able to handle all types of electronic media , with users blissfully unaware of whether they were watching , say , a laser disc or a video tape . |
| 12 | In addition , it can be exercised where , during antecedent negotiations , there were oral representations made irrespective of whether they were concluded on or off business premises ( s67 ) . |
| 13 | If mail order is excluded , much the same proportions of people patronised the various types of shopping centre , and types of shop , for their most recent non-routine purchase , regardless of whether they were buying on credit or buying for cash . |
| 14 | Patients in the fluticasone propionate group received 5 mg four times daily throughout the trial , regardless of whether they were allocated to group A or group B at 14 days . |
| 15 | While students may be financially worse off , they are being better cared for and they are taking an increasing part in assessing the quality of their courses . |
| 16 | If it 's humanly possible , lay them down , raise the legs , how about if they 're shivering ? |
| 17 | I think they 're a very dangerous mode of education because they provide a very stereo-typed image of everything , everybody that they 're talking about if they 're talking about sex , they presume to be able bodied , they 're presumed to be white generally , they 're presumed to be heterosexual , if they 're talking about homosexual then , it 's definitely male lesbians |
| 18 | Within a day or so the newcomers have appointments fixed with social security to get some money and when it looks as if they 're staying , negotiations begin with schools to admit their children . |
| 19 | It 's as if they 're bowling on a totally different pitch . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They 're a bit like a cat 's , they look as if they 're lit up , from inside , pale green like a cat 's . |
| 22 | ‘ They do n't look as if they 're seeing . |
| 23 | I mean the police riders look as if they 're enjoying it . |
| 24 | so I said to her come on I said come on you 'll got ta start trying to be strong , I know it 's a nasty night being celebration night when everybody else looks as if they 're enjoying |
| 25 | Your fingers look as if they 're made of jelly . |
| 26 | But at the moment , you feel as if they 're getting patted on the head and it 's giving them a push down the wrong way . |
| 27 | It looks as if they 're trying to get rid of him . ’ |
| 28 | And yes , it infuriates her when magazines run ‘ Big Is Beautiful ’ features as if they 're indulging a minority of readers . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's not as if they 're poaching us or anything . |
| 30 | They make as if they 're gon na break into the room , and one of these guys is enjoying himself saying how he 's decided to rape her and then hand her to the dog . |