Example sentences of "and they be [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are they , are they have they , are they stupid , have they gone totally mad and they 're obstructing this thing for ever and ever and ever just for the sake of obstructing and you have t to listen to what they say on on this , the argument that we 're having here and have had here and the argument that we 've had about old people 's homes , they 've been two running sores in this authority and hopefully today in both of them we 'll be making progress and I think I 'd like to . |
| 2 | You know you th either come back and they 're embracing each other and cuddling and there 're a few tears and everything and er everything 's hunkydory and you start traipsing back in with all the bloody stuff you 've just brought out from beforehand you see . |
| 3 | So they 're taki it 's I think it 's daft because they 're introducing it in nineteen ninety three and they 're taking two age groups instead of taking one . |
| 4 | They 're a very supportive family and they 're helping each other through this tragedy at the moment . |
| 5 | Er so they actually got themselves organized and they erm have factories that , that er mass produce the components and they 're producing nuclear power stations at the rate of about one every six months . |
| 6 | Yeah , I mean now plays of Shakespeare and they 're wearing modern dress like those worn at Richard the Third or something and they 're wearing well either First or Second World War uniforms . |
| 7 | Yeah , I mean now plays of Shakespeare and they 're wearing modern dress like those worn at Richard the Third or something and they 're wearing well either First or Second World War uniforms . |
| 8 | They 're anti-social , handicapped people , and they 're kept that way . |
| 9 | And they 're kissing each other |
| 10 | And they 're going hundred mile an hour ! |
| 11 | It 's seen a the first stage towards living more independently for many young people , and they 're offering quick access to a bed for the night . |
| 12 | Erm er I think they 're probably and and they 're putting more effort into getting the unemployed off being unemployed off being unemployed into course are n't they so probably the they may have improved things but anyway the basic erm idea of it was that you borrow money er you borrow erm money to finance a course which is going to get you a job . |
| 13 | And they 're stretched far back you see . |
| 14 | erm So now we started up the long term survey , and we 've now got 10 schools taking part , and they 're starting next week , and they 'll be carrying on in the same way as they were the pilot survey , taking the same measurements . |
| 15 | The mark up on drinks is high , and they 're doing high class food now as well . |
| 16 | And they are getting hands-on experience of a giant octopus , molluscs and butterflies with the life-like models made and collected by naturalist Ian Coggin , left , seen during a training session with primary teachers at Whinny Banks junior school , Middlesbrough . |
| 17 | ‘ If that is their purpose and they are achieving that purpose , why is the Government privatising them ? ’ he asked . |
| 18 | And they are demanding massive insurance cover from Eastern Suburbs when Martin Offiah plays for them next summer . |
| 19 | And the other one , I wonder if the Council would consider , over sixties club , I ought to declare an interest I suppose , erm have two hundred members and they are distributing this Christmas , as they al always do , a three pound voucher to each of those members in office you know and I just wondered whether the Council would consider a small contribution towards that expenditure . |
| 20 | The irises of his eyes were almost large enough to exclude the whites and they were coloured light green like grapes and flecked with gold . |
| 21 | Although they had recently lost narrowly to New Zealand , there was no question that West Indies were now the outstanding team in the world , and they were to continue that way throughout the 1980s . |
| 22 | And the story goes , to cut it quite short , two workmen were in this person 's house laying carpet tiles in the lounge and they were using this substance that was heavier than air and it was also highly flammable . |
| 23 | And they were buying this house and it was worth something like I do n't know , they were , they 'd got a twenty five grand mortgage . |
| 24 | Not surprisingly , he saw the news of the Club and course as a good story and they were given generous coverage for many years . |
| 25 | They were all sat on the floor of one of the sparsely-furnished bedrooms , the curtains drawn , watching East Enders on a black-and-white telly , and they were eating Greek yoghurt out of a communal family-sized Sainsbury 's tub . |
| 26 | Yes I well remember er I use when I was staying down at Trimley there was erm a lady there who worked in the Billeting Department , who ca who herself was evacuated from London and er , I used to catch the same bus with her but she never would speak to me , erm and erm one morning er she lived down at Curton and one morning they had some erm er German planes over Curton and they were doing some machine gunning and that sort of thing and erm and we met at the bus stop and she was full of it and erm that sort of broke the ice it was |
| 27 | And they were attacking one man , while a woman , presumably his wife or daughter , was crying by the side of the street . |
| 28 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 29 | And they were interviewing this feller , he said , oh we went for a day out he said and I 'd just bought this car and I was really made up with it he said |
| 30 | on the telly the other night and they were showing this fellow scragging the kids in the kitchen , god and I thought oh , because they were all watching it , you know , oh they might ring them |