Example sentences of "what they [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they 'd been over there to a stallion ? |
| 2 | He used to sort of let the girls know what they 'd been at . |
| 3 | Some of his male colleagues boasted about how they 'd felt with various women , raising an arm to show what they 'd been like . |
| 4 | But what they produced were at best permanent monuments of erudition on which we still draw , and at worst giant-sized pamphlets which are now read , if at all , only for their interest as literature . |
| 5 | They do not need to go erm and th th they they have their own positions and I think a lot of what they speak is of genuine concern . |
| 6 | She knew very well what they had been at ; she and Patten had been the same , when they were young . |
| 7 | This was a soft seduction of her senses , a sensuous reminder of what they had been to each other and what they had lost . |
| 8 | After that , the possibilities for the disturbed were very much what they were to remain until the introduction of the major tranquillisers — and indeed what they had been from Roman times . |
| 9 | I thought , would n't it be good though if they , if what they did is on that day we went they pick everyone who wanted like the jobs yeah |
| 10 | The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er |
| 11 | What they have been in the past , in the face of their grim working lives , is resilient . |