Example sentences of "[coord] they [be] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Get to know them , and they 're never as glamorous or as perfect as one imagines . ’ |
| 2 | A buzzard 's feathers have almost a glossy look to them , and they 're more than one shade of brown . |
| 3 | ‘ Look how much better the Lilliputians do it ’ , is a tempting cry , but the more one looks into it the more one finds that the Lilliputians are n't a fair comparison with us : they have n't got our antiquated industries … our legal system ; and they are less than six inches tall . |
| 4 | I liked everything about it , I liked everything about it , mind you I had sore fingers to begin with , very sore , with the filing you see , but also er I was used to thing in a way because there was a little lock shop in mother 's yard er and erm home-made er home-made locks and he used to er and now he used to do them and stamp them and I us I worked his hand press for him before I was fourteen and they were for and they are still and my mother used to take them to Birmingham and erm I think he used to give me sixpence for doing everything I did for him . |
| 5 | er , we have in the East end of the village , including the pub , the farm , and various other properties , a certain type of properties that elevation , a certain sympathetic er amenity , and these buildings , I I heard the word mentioned earlier , I live in the country , I could live in the town , it does n't matter where I live , but these are not the sort of properties , in my opinion , that should be put on this particular site , er and they 're they 're totally , all our own elevations and plans of height , and they are totally and utterly out of proportion and out of scale with the present day entrance to the village , and whilst we 're not talking totally and utterly about looks , if you come down into the village they are going to be totally over powering , particularly in the , in the actual , in this situation of no hedges and that kind of thing , |
| 6 | ‘ I have considered all the facts that you describe relating to the circumstances and they are substantially as in my officer 's report to me about the death . |
| 7 | ‘ And they were there and nobody was there at the same time ! ’ says Derry . |
| 8 | And they were anyhow so they had a brand new telly . |
| 9 | For instance we had no place to keep our er records , we had er minute books er we used to receive minutes from the management for example , after our monthly meeting with them , er and they were more or less dictated by the er personnel department , who were present at the meeting . |
| 10 | But they 're mostly like I say . |
| 11 | Well I do n't think we need to , the jury need read them now but they 're there and available for you to see in due course yes . |
| 12 | Grandcourt is Sir Hugo Mallinger 's nephew and his heir , but they are ethically as distant from each other as Disraeli 's Lord Mamey is from his Mr Lyle . |
| 13 | At times Great Chaos beasts find a way down to Avelorn from the Annulii and ravage the land , but they are swiftly and ruthlessly hunted down by the Everqueen 's would-be consorts in an effort to gain her favour . |
| 14 | He took aim half-heartedly , but they were away before he even squeezed . |
| 15 | You have to code the numbers of the athletes and they are supposed to be on the inside so you ca n't read them , but they were outside so you could — you could see which one was from Krabbe , Breuer and Moller . |
| 16 | just to exist , was a very hard one , but they were home and many of those who lived in these remote parts had probably never been further away than the nearest celebration of Holy Communion . |
| 17 | But they were less than competent in certain areas . |
| 18 | by no means all of the old sport s were abandoned , but they were more or less confined either to the margins of community life or to the remoter parts of the nation . |
| 19 | And they 're no pendulum clocks there now but they were there when I was there . |