Example sentences of "they be [verb] ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they might have heard however , had they been passing ten minutes later , even above the noise of the traffic and the raging of the wind , was a roar of someone in pain , a great and agonizing cry . |
| 2 | More often than not they are located ten miles outside town under a tin roof , in wasteland surrounded by a car park the size of Brazil . |
| 3 | But it 's not just erm it 's not just this unemployed worker 's centre , they 're asking ten they want ten unemployed worker 's centres throughout Wales to contribute work . |
| 4 | Over the next few weeks they 're releasing ten of thousands of tiny elvers in Thames tributaries like the River Windrush in Oxfordshire . |
| 5 | ‘ And these fellers used to go to sea like that ; and in these boats they were gone ten and twelve weeks , and they slept in little bunks , and they never changed their clothes the whole time . |
| 6 | er my Lord simply directives under one art article one , eight , nine , erm I can , very simply say in relation to the Lloyds Act and to the bye laws they were adopted ten years after the directive , there ca n't therefore be an implementation , they , they , the the implementation is fully set out in the Insurance Companies Act nineteen eighty two and it quite clear now because the Secretary of S |
| 7 | Fleischmann and Pons believed that they were seeing ten thousand neutrons per cm 3 per second and on 1 March Fleischmann phoned Ron Bullough , the Harwell Chief Scientist , to tell him the news . |
| 8 | In Ciudad Sandino , a small ‘ new town ’ close to Managua , they were celebrating ten years of literacy work ( 1979–89 ) with an exhibition . |