Example sentences of "they be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 'm not gon na get her one of them am I ? |
| 2 | They 'd none of them been lucky with men . |
| 3 | M I mean , let's be fair I mean most of the stallholders that I 've found in Nottinghamshire erm are perfectly honest and reputable and many of them been there many years anyway . |
| 4 | ‘ What would have been Britain 's level of development had millions of them been put to work as slaves outside of their homeland over a period of four centuries ? ’ asks Guyanese professor of history Walter Rodney . |
| 5 | There 's a lot of them been closed since then . |
| 6 | Why is John , and Ann and Paul and Teresa and all them been on that trussing line , and Merv . |
| 7 | Suspected torturers are permitted under the new law to continue to interrogate detainees while charges against them are outstanding . |
| 8 | Youthful as some of them are , the lyrics of Heaney do not embody the genius of inexperience , whatever some of Shelley 's may do . |
| 9 | Two , or three , of them are in , or moving into , the far from populous row of flats , just over the river in South London , which is inhabited by Patrick and Jenny , and by a stunning , boring wife who affords Patrick one of the novelist 's turmoils in a vulgarly-appointed borrowed flat some miles to the north . |
| 10 | On the other hand , Harold Pinter 's characters Mick and Aston from The Caretaker are familiar , and both of them are still young and exciting enough to make good choices . |
| 11 | Unfortunately most of them are in Hebrew . |
| 12 | Half of them are spies and secret policemen . |
| 13 | ‘ But the days of them are gone . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I bet none of them are showing anything as daft as this , ’ I mused to myself . |
| 15 | All of them are avoidable and cost time and money . |
| 16 | The half of them are on my rent-roll anyway . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Sorry , Angus , ’ he was saying , ‘ my lad from Ballinluig never turned up , I had to get my father to blow the bellows — ouch ! some of them are still hot — that bag has charred , spread them out to cool , or keep them for tomorrow . |
| 18 | ‘ In return for a cessation of violence , amnesties have been granted to the Furs and a number of them are to be co-opted onto the Government . |
| 19 | Some of them are still exogenous and can be modified only by varying the stimulus , but some of them now seem to depend mainly on the way the subject is processing the stimulus . |
| 20 | Some of them are to be found in Checkmate when the Red Pawns pick their way from square to square , whilst their Queen guides her King to his throne with tender steps . |
| 21 | YOU ca n't enjoy good beer if the pubs that serve them are badly run or have been modernised in a vulgar and insensitive fashion . |
| 22 | Many of them are only followed for the first pitch , either because they finish up easier slabs ( which might well suit some people ) or become much harder . |
| 23 | He recognizes in Raskolnikov a fellow-struggler , and repeatedly he says that the two of them are birds of a feather ; but he also bids him farewell with a pointed ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like ’ towards the end of their final meeting , because setting off for America , unlike the North Pole , while it may or may not amount to doing anything ( Crime and Punishment does n't raise the question ) marks a parting of their ways . |
| 24 | Scholes , however , believes that Saussure is himself inconsistent , and responsible for later confusion , but the thrust of his argument is very close to Tallis 's , and both of them are concerned — as were Thurley and Nuttall — to reinstate the validity of reference and to deny that language is a system of ‘ pure differences ’ , without relation to reality . |
| 25 | Most of them are produced by women , who provide insights that come from relating female experience to a body of writing ; logically , there is no reason why these insights should not be available to male critics with the right sympathies and sensibility , but in practice most of this criticism is by women . |
| 26 | Significantly , most of them are by Americans , for it is in the American academy that the pressure for change , for constantly new forms of newness , is greatest . |
| 27 | And although the Tude has plants in its waters , I am reluctant to believe that any of them are lilies ; for Chalais has suffered from the twentieth century as Aubeterre has not , and the Tude is polluted whereas the Dronne runs clear . |
| 28 | They are too good to be forgotten , or some of them are . |
| 29 | Paradoxically , the more moderate of them are insisting on the maintenance of their block votes because the party is still not fully democratic . |
| 30 | Many of them are not used to disabled people , and , being temporary , they rarely get to know her anyway . |