Example sentences of "[conj] they be [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all his working of the flesh and his golden suntan and his deployment of pop philosophies and credos , Letterman is too contrived an individual to be successful with the sort of Frenchwoman — my gaze descends from the mountain to my backyard where they are pegging out a goatskin — whom he desires to play the part of Claudia . |
| 2 | I do hope you 're feeling better , and that they 're sorting out the right combination of drugs this time . |
| 3 | First , it may be difficult to recruit a sample of people who know that they are taking on a very long-term commitment . |
| 4 | Convex Computer Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co yesterday said that they are hotting up the alliance that saw Hewlett take a 5% stake in Convex last year with a potentially substantial technology exchange to plug the massively parallel applications gap . |
| 5 | A few months ago NME cover stars SEAN HUGHES and CATHAL COUGHLAN announced that they were bringing out an LP together . |
| 6 | Though he could n't hear them , Trent knew that they were setting up a race . |
| 7 | In a statement broadcast on national radio , the soldiers , who appeared to be led by Capt. Valentine Strasser , announced that they were setting up a National Provisional Defence Council . |
| 8 | Conservationists criticized the Spanish authorities for failing to take sufficient measures to rescue oiled seabirds , and suggested that they were covering up the extent of the damage . |
| 9 | She was fanning her cheeks desultorily when she realised with a start that they were pulling off the road and Niall was bringing the car to a halt . |
| 10 | Politically it was the awakening of these groups which was most important , for as Professor Christie has concluded : |
| 11 | But with the number of claims soaring , insurers now reckon they are losing money — so they are tightening up the rules or backing out altogether . |
| 12 | That was the boss ; all the other crews are already on task and D Squadron needs a new gearbox in one of its Chieftains — it 's about six miles from here so they 're sending out a truck with the spares and we 're to meet it there . ’ |
| 13 | As for the Multiple sclerosis sufferers at Didcot ; they believe there 's enough evidence to give credibility to their treatment , so they 're keeping up the pressure both inside and outside the chamber . |
| 14 | and like they run down the stairs and run back up the stairs , yeah , and they 're looking out the window out the window and they go why the bloody hell are you always just looking out of windows and he 's going do it your way and I 'll do it mine . |
| 15 | and they 're building up a petition so he 's now got a office he 's had he 's had three offices |
| 16 | When I look at these shabby partygoers waving their coffee-cups and leaning on metal-frame chairs , it 's like the plague has settled on them , and they 're twitching out the rest of their time . |
| 17 | I think , we have got all these seeds though in the greenhouse , and they 're coming up a treat ! |
| 18 | That 's why , and they were smoking out the window , er , up here . |
| 19 | There was a van by the door and they were loading up the files , the contracts , documents , everything ; ’ |
| 20 | They were going through the motions on television but their voices , face and body language were vividly clear — they knew they would lose and they were putting on a brave front . |
| 21 | so Malcolm just went in to see if there 'd be any tickets for the afternoon performance on the off-chance and they were putting on an extra matinee performance so lo and behold those two went to see Phantom of the Opera . |
| 22 | Both his arms were covered in seething black sleeves , a moment later and his face was covered with insects , too , and they were pouring down the front of his shirt . |
| 23 | And they was hanging out the bottom , hanging out with their guns hanging over the edges . |
| 24 | Functionalists imply that roles are provided by the social system and individuals enact their roles as if they were reading off a script which contains explicit directions for their behaviour . |
| 25 | Oh he was on the river he he was always connected with the river my father and in the First World War they towed the dredger from here to Ramsgate and er he was , he was in the Army but he was connected to the Inland Water Transport and cos they were dredging out the harbour at Ramsgate . |
| 26 | What a lot of people are doing is they 're not putting up rails but they 're putting up a erm a border halfway up are n't they , or just not quite halfway up the wall . |
| 27 | It 's probably because they 're taking over the er accident and emergency department from Clatterbrick it 's shutting down and it 's all going to Arrow Park . |
| 28 | She says you have to be brusque with them because they 're getting on a bit , you know . |
| 29 | There was , Henry had noticed , a specially reverent way of saying ‘ thank you ’ when accepting a cheese and tomato sandwich at a funeral reception and he did not see why people should develop critical faculties just because they were swigging back a wine glass containing a fair quantity of the domestic bleach known as Finish 'Em . |
| 30 | Ian Stark once said of his great mount Murphy Himself that if Murphy 's ears were really pricked while they were going round a cross country course that he was probably out of control ! |