Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] they [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Flares are n't news in Dublin they 're still wearing them from that first time round .
2 For the English kings , on the other hand , war was an attempt to assert historic and feudal rights to Aquitaine , Normandy , and other parts of France , as well as their legal claim to the French crown , which had been unjustly denied them by successive French kings .
3 However , at the time of going to press , Berthoud , Chafer and Degania are also offering them as original equipment on their sprayers .
4 MUSICIANS from a Merseyside orchestra are really knocking 'em for six .
5 Though many were crumbling after the Second World War many owners are now putting them in good order . ’
6 In some cases , firms , such as Nestlé in regions of Brazil , having purchased haciendas , are now running them with modern agricultural techniques .
7 Well I 'm just putting them on clean dishes because I think these dishes
8 He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success .
9 The Roman authorities are treated with a respect which is almost excusing them from any responsibility .
10 At the end of this term , the Ayton School choir goes to Coventry Cathedral and Mr Essex , who will sing there with them , is currently rehearsing them for this occasion .
11 Marshall 's hands had once made music — now they could n't — so he was perhaps punishing them with hard labour in a sort of brutal compensation .
12 Coleridge was not only a willing listener to Southey 's ideas , but was soon developing them into grand and Utopian principles during long hours spent in Oxford ‘ disputing on metaphysical subjects ’ .
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