Example sentences of "they [be] [v-ing] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This is the culmination of a campaign to mobilise white opinion against President de Klerk 's reforms , and to launch what they 're calling the third freedom struggle of the Boer Nation .
2 So , you know , they 're taking a second mortgage , not a first mortgage , because we 've already mortgaged it .
3 erm people do look for protection when they 're when they 're buying the second purchase of their lives in most cases .
4 DO N'T scoff at Skodas , they 're having the last laugh .
5 No , well , he , you know , just at the end when they 're giving the last news just before nine o'clock
6 When we 're doing first aid incidents erm the standard thing we 're doing for adults when they 're doing a first aid exam is we 'll give present them with a casualty with perhaps a cut hand or something like that and they 'll actually have a black eye .
7 What they were told was that erm a number of , a a short , short list would be made up , erm , with the possibility of them having a second interview , and they would be told one way or another whether or not they were getting a second interview , because we were n't in a position to say whether we were or were not appointing .
8 When they were doing the first picture they had , I think it was .
9 Men , I know , talk of such things with eagerness , with a little contempt ; it is as if they were describing the last meal they had , course by course .
10 Between them they were carrying the sixth figure — the limp , white faced form of Brett Grant .
11 They were saying the last time I heard them saying anything he was sort of going
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