Example sentences of "they be [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They are calling it the ‘ Seweries ’ . ’ |
| 2 | Their parents are called away and they are left him the care of servants . |
| 3 | Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps . |
| 4 | The welcome is of the warmest ; and tonight they are showing him the MRA film ‘ Freedom ’ , made in Nigeria . |
| 5 | Now , they 're calling him the heir to Britain 's tennis crown . |
| 6 | They 're calling it the curse of the L-plate . |
| 7 | And I think when we talk in terms in getting around to spending the money we have got then we need to look quite clearly about how you make a place more inviting and it 's also about when people come into the building how they 're met what the receptionists like , when they ring up can they get through and I mean I 'm I 'm surprised that 's said about the tickets that I think that our reception ticket areas an excellent area the people working there are first class are very friendly very helpful so it 's trying to get that sort of concept through the building I thin k we work on that I think the building 's kept very clean people who clean the building are very good but I hear what you 're saying and I thinks it 's been said earlier by the lady here by the foyer downstairs she feels threatened when she goes into that bar because I think the whole decor and the way it is is a threatening place I think we need to look at those so that was an old and . |
| 8 | She phoned her careers office today , they 're sending her the information free , you 're thinking . |
| 9 | They 're asking what the noise could be who it could be were the guards coming for them ? |
| 10 | ‘ They may feel they 're charging what the market will bear . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ They 're giving us the extra points ! |
| 12 | Yeah , if they 're delayed getting on the motorway and see that they 're doing it the other side coming off , they might be saying |
| 13 | Well in the Midland Bank and they were wearing them the last time you were there . |
| 14 | When they were asked what the ( say ) ‘ egg ’ was ‘ really , really ’ the three-year-olds answered correctly that it was a stone , but when asked what the object ‘ looks like to your eyes ’ they also said ‘ stone ’ . |
| 15 | Not one organisation wrote to the Home Secretary indicating they were supporting what the Government is now putting for the House . |
| 16 | I never did think they were primitive and they always told the truth ( except when they were teaching me the language ) and were a damn sight more trustworthy than some of the white men we had on the job . |
| 17 | But Lothar then extracted a further concession , " since he would not have , he said , in the share [ of the regnum ] they were offering him the wherewithal to make good to his own supporters that which they had lost . |