Example sentences of "they 're [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a couple of hours ’ drive from Berlin , and they 're expecting us in the morning . |
| 2 | like for a kick off , he went down to the skip last Saturday , the tip , we had , er he was clearing out the back yard , he took some rubble and boxes and things down there , and he was talking to the fellow there they said oh , he said er they were shutting this skip , er they 're moving it down the road and you 'll have to pay , you 'll have to pay to tip your rubbish |
| 3 | Yah , they 're taking it off the satellite and it used to be there was always the seven o'clock news , except in central side when it was always the six o'clock news , but now it 's on at like any old time , five thirty , six thirty , seven . |
| 4 | Oh , 'cos they 're taking it from the East Coast feed . |
| 5 | They 're saving them for the Open . ’ |
| 6 | And erm so if they 're buying it on the , on the market , th the company should pay a fair price for , for what they 've bought . |
| 7 | They 're having it at the co , at the university because David 's mother has some connection . |
| 8 | well no they 're having it in the er , that one against top of the market , what is it called er ? |
| 9 | They 're keeping me to the contract … wanting their pound o ’ flesh . |
| 10 | I wonder if they 're keeping him in the morgue , by the way ? |
| 11 | How is unemployment measured , they 're measuring it in the formal sector , and you can actually live by being employed in the informal sector , which is often not recorded . |
| 12 | a lot of sixteen year olds are still having trouble with decimals like that and they 're adding them in the wrong place . |
| 13 | I do n't know , they 're loa , looks like they 're loading them in , they 're putting them in the gar the school . |
| 14 | Because of your health , pet , they 're putting us on the priority list , say we did n't ought to be below-ground , nor too high . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | the earths it comes out of so they 're selling it by the bottle in Germany . |
| 17 | They 're doing something at the boy 's school , but we 're not doing anything personally . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 20 | so they 're doing it from the age of possibly eight or nine some people , certainly down right the way through |
| 21 | They 're doing it by the . |
| 22 | They wo n't take any notice of us , Baptiste said : the ambulance is round the front , I saw it , and they 're carrying him into the downstairs bit . |