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 ’ . |