Example sentences of "what they be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , obviously one needs to change peoples ideas or change the way we do things or whatever , erm two relevant position that 's sort of making them believe in what they 're trying to erm , propose , and getting commitment at the end . |
| 2 | They know what they 're doing to the N H S. |
| 3 | Every single one of them turned round at that meeting and said , will you go and beat the out of that government for what they 're doing to us . |
| 4 | ‘ And wo n't they all feel terrible about it when they stop to think what they 're doing to you ? ’ she asked in a fair imitation of an Irish brogue . |
| 5 | Do the workers have any erm powers of negotiation over the price paid and what they 're going to be paid . |
| 6 | You never know with bananas do you , what they 're going to be like inside ? |
| 7 | And he was saying that it 's erm a speaking dic dictionary , that 's what they 're going to researching for |
| 8 | No , but it 's what they 're saying to Fergie , is just go ! |
| 9 | Suppose you are on drugs and you know what they are doing to your body but you ca n't break the habit . |
| 10 | Without having that understanding of what emotions are and what they are doing to us we can not analyse the way in which emotions disturb our balance and what that should teach us about ourselves and our relationship with the world . |
| 11 | I have great sympathy with Linford ; what they are doing to him is totally disgraceful . ’ |
| 12 | If the taxpayer understood what the Government are planning with this privatisation and what they are doing to the coal industry , there would be no doubt what would happen at the next general election . |
| 13 | ‘ Many of the young girls who are starving themselves have no idea what they are doing to their bodies . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you know what they are going to be about ? ’ |
| 15 | They each knew what they were bringing to the project . |
| 16 | We think , but we do n't really know what they were saying to each other behind closed doors . |
| 17 | She wondered what they were saying to each other . |
| 18 | She never did tell people what they were going to be doing . |
| 19 | The format worked well because the interviewees were never told in advance what they were going to be asked . |
| 20 | He wondered what they were doing to Ari . |
| 21 | The Palestinians were thus caught in a moral circle , although they rarely cared to debate the morality of what they were doing to the Lebanese : if they failed to fight the Israelis , then they sacrificed their right of return to Palestine ; yet if they did attack the Israelis , they created a new class of refugees among the Lebanese , mostly from the poor Shia community in southern Lebanon . |
| 22 | And I hated the anglers with their sharp hooks and their lack of understanding of what they were doing to the fish they plucked so gleefully from their wet world into our dry one . |
| 23 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 24 | I literally had to plunge into the abyss and find out what I could about what they were doing to me , or what they wanted me to do . |
| 25 | You should have heard what they were doing to him . |