Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The classroom was the warehouse they 'd been in before . |
| 2 | Houses are no longer the gold-plated investment they have been since the war . |
| 3 | Any extra help they received was through the dedication of any class teacher who had enough energy left over from dealing with the demands of the class as a whole . |
| 4 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |
| 5 | You see the individual patient 's dilemma , we 've got no problem with the loner who comes for individual psychoanalysis they have been on their own th there 's no problem there , but but what about the group analytic situation ? |
| 6 | I 'll need dog-handlers immediately and they 'll have to be sent out to Pontino , there 's no need for them to check in here first — the girl they released is in shock . |
| 7 | Since entering the wood they had been in severe anxiety . |
| 8 | At the moment they think being with their parents is absolutely wonderful and that 's not going to last for ever . |
| 9 | The only place they lived was in the northern mountains , the Greshorns . |
| 10 | This year 's ‘ local ’ booking they say is at Old Shildon Working Men 's Club on February 14 . |
| 11 | The economics , ethics and effects of discounting were not the talking point they had been in 1991 . |
| 12 | That they took on the importance they did was in part the fault of the government . |
| 13 | They worked on through the files for the rest of the morning , a routine they had been through so often that they commented mostly in half-sentences or barely audible grunts . |
| 14 | Er the the room , the smallest room they have is for twenty five to thirty people |
| 15 | Surveys just before this Truth in Lending Act , just after , and again in 1977 , have shown a steady growth in the proportion of American consumers whose estimates of the APRs being charged on the credit they use are at least reasonably close to actual market rates . |
| 16 | The previous day they had been on the green 5¼ hours to out-bowl Paddington . |
| 17 | This was the middle of an argument they 'd been at home . |
| 18 | During the month they 've been without it , Barbara , who 's divorced and her children Joelle , eighteen and fourteen year-old Bobby are getting used to managing without a car . |
| 19 | And if MPs on the take are not parroting the opinions of these companies what can we suppose the money they receive is for ? |
| 20 | And the only privilege they have is of looking after us is n't it ? |
| 21 | I 've been having discussions too , only in my case they 've been with the Hughes family who run Cheshire Restaurants . |
| 22 | The first play they mounted was for Alan and his family — to celebrate the completion of the pageant . |
| 23 | Children cope in different ways and it may be that the only support they need is from you . |
| 24 | It was a secret they 'd been in the house . |
| 25 | that there is that fear , that is because that is the second World War this is why the erm the er late thirties , early forties was never gon na succeed , because they had two completely different archaeologist , plus now in their purest form their not that but in the they were , they were never going to work , I mean that is the fact that their communists , the sole reason they 've been against each other for a hundred and fifty years there is no other reason |
| 26 | The last thing they wanted was for the Americans to know they were about to learn their secrets . |
| 27 | Of course , the information they glean is of little value if the Goblin is pulverised as he impacts with the ground . |
| 28 | what happened next was a landslide … everything Southend did went right … every shot they hit was on target … and every chance was taken … |
| 29 | Things were very different from the way they had been in the colonial period : |
| 30 | If I got these two they are positional isomers because the carbon chain is the same and the only way they differ is in a position of a functional group . |