Example sentences of "they be [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 2 | they 're talking none about the , the economy and turn up before the end of the year , this , the , the , they 've been hanging on and on and on , and er slagging one another off all the time |
| 3 | They 're doing something at the boy 's school , but we 're not doing anything personally . |
| 4 | I think there 's still too much ‘ You do that , you do this ’ in the big record companies , but that 's bollocks too , because without the artists knowing what they 're doing nobody in the record company would have a job . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ They were doing everything by the book . |
| 6 | I think I think there was som some sent to Chester for example , I think they were doing something in the cathedral in Chester . |
| 7 | In fact … one of them was stuffing something through the wire and bars of his cage which they should n't be doing and he did n't much like it … |