Example sentences of "they [verb] they be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say they are being presented with a £200 bill for training . |
| 2 | ’ When they realise they 're being watched , they 'll move around the store from department to department , trying on different clothes , testing make-up and so on . |
| 3 | They feel that Shetlanders do not appreciate the sacrifices they are making : instead they suspect they are being regarded by Shetlanders as a nuisance not really to be welcomed and as far as possible to be ignored altogether . |
| 4 | Tenants in a house at Brockworth near Gloucester , who say they 've been paying rent for six months , barracaded themselves in when they heard they were being evicted because their landlord had defaulted on his mortgage . |
| 5 | As their letter informed me , it 's enough that they know they 're being watched . ’ |
| 6 | If they know they 're being watched , they try to get clever by splitting up . |
| 7 | Now they feel they 're being driven out by thieves . |
| 8 | It may be that the patient feels gratified by someone taking his or her illness seriously , or it may simply be the power of suggestion — because they feel they are being offered a cure , they actually begin to get better . |
| 9 | They feel they are being sucked inexorably and against their will into the adoption of a rather ugly or artificial persona , though there are various expressions that this mask can take . |
| 10 | Black children react in a certain way because they feel they are being picked on , and because they react badly then further reaction follows . |
| 11 | The inmates at Bullingdon jail near Bicester may be serving their time , but they claim they 're being served up insufficient and unpalatable food . |
| 12 | People got tired of interviewing him because they felt they were being made fools of . |
| 13 | We found ( Appendix II , section 5 ) that on one London estate where we held group discussions several people lived at addresses which they said had been blacklisted in this way , because of bad payers who had lived there before them ; as a consequence , they felt they were being made to suffer from the bad reputation of the previous tenants . |
| 14 | And they felt they were being exploited . |
| 15 | Suppose they think they 're being a value or something cos they 're cheaper . |
| 16 | You 've probably all been in situation where you seen people zigzag across the road because they think they 're being followed the ladies will do it because she thinks a bloke is following her and the men are probably thinking does she think I 'm following her ? |
| 17 | ‘ If they think they are being ripped off , the new strips wo n't sell . ’ |
| 18 | So no , I ca n't agree there , that there is erm unequality , they think they are being hard done by . |