Example sentences of "they be [verb] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Made up in a bouquet of floral-design remnants , they are secured at the corners with a bow . |
| 2 | So so in a way , they 're looking at the levels we 're at now is an accurate level using a high price item . |
| 3 | Mister says if they 're defeated at the polls , it would hasten a general election which Labour could win . |
| 4 | He 's got a , they 're all talking about me , he says they 're listening at the walls or standing in the clossies |
| 5 | However , a bright lady from one of the northern co-ops came up to me later with the simple answer : they were looking at the prices and making their choice on that basis in much the same manner as they might go into a butcher 's shop with a price tag for the weekend shopping firmly implanted in their minds . |
| 6 | The Conservatives are inconsistent , I mean that when they wrote the policy , when they were looking at the guidelines this erm I ca n't remember off hand what it was on page fifty . |
| 7 | Miss Jeanette , who at the time was Nichol 's 16year-old girlfriend , told how a week after the attack they were stopped at a police road block . |
| 8 | They told reporters that they were protesting at a police attack on the demonstrators at the Guildhall . |
| 9 | I tried to move my hands and they hurt , but I established that they were n't tied , they were taped at the wrists . |
| 10 | Probably , during the war we did quite well , what with the black Americans because they were stationed at the towers and they used to give us kids chocolates and |
| 11 | They were to cut at the roots . |
| 12 | One of them was shouting at the men behind the counter now ; a stream of threats and curses in Kuo Yu — Mandarin — while the two behind him looked about them threateningly . |