Example sentences of "they be [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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1 | Being in control of the finances of an organisation can pose a major headache for some people , especially if they are thrown in at the deep end with little or . |
2 | ‘ It 's the way they 're gathered in at the top , Sergeant . ’ |
3 | Yeah , they 're moving out at the end of this month . |
4 | They 're looking up at the sign board , and holding each other 's hand . |
5 | They 're thrown in at the deep end , and have to develop skills quickly . |
6 | He says that the one they 're working on at the moment has bodies which appear to have been buried in a great hurry . |
7 | Then then there 's er what 's the name what 's the woman they 're working on at the minute this lot the |
8 | And often you forget , and your brain flies off somewhere to do something else , I fancied that bird last night , God the beer 's rough in that bloody hotel , I wonder what that , I wonder how they 're doing up at the depot ? |
9 | Entitled Swizzlewick , it ‘ starred ’ a Mrs Smallgood , a Councillor Salt — the chairman of the NVALA committee was a Birmingham councillor by the name of Pepper — and Ernest the postman , Ernest being the name of Mr Whitehouse and ‘ Postman 's Piece ’ the name of the house they were living in at the time . |
10 | They were looking down at the new Japanese car factory , Sakata , which had just opened in Humberside . |
11 | Everything seemed to be settled when Taiwanese and Indonesian officials agreed that the animals would be sent to the orang-utan rehabilitation centre run by Dr Galdikas at Tanjung Puting in Kalimantan ; and in November 1990 , they were seen off at the airport by BBC cameras , reporters from around the world and a hundred singing Taiwanese children . |
12 | They were turned down at the one where they were married and christened because they 'd moved five miles outside the parish . |
13 | They were dug in at the other end of the village in an orchard very close to the enemy positions . |
14 | The 63 was one of a handful of four-wheel-drive cars that saw brief service in 1969 before they were parked in at the end of the blind alley into which their manufacturers had ventured . |
15 | He passed Caballeros and Bugner as they were holing out at the 15th and driving at the short 16th . |
16 | They were each offered a can of cold beer from a coolbox , and within a short time they were lining up at the barbecue , a plate in hand . |
17 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
18 | some of them being throttled round at the time . |
19 | Quite a number of them were turning up at the BBC and the harassed receptionist was heard to say , as she reported the arrival of yet another , ‘ I 'm sorry , where did you say you were king of ? ’ |