Example sentences of "they [verb] be [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the majority of athletes begin to take vitamin supplements the most basic mistake they make is to take too many without considering which is going to help them most . |
| 2 | The bones released from the scats as they decayed were washed down this gully , and this resulted in the separation of two distinct bone assemblages : the one remaining at the top of the hill consisted of about 60 per cent dental and jaw fragments while the one washing down the hill consisted of more than 70 per cent vertebrae . |
| 3 | they 'd been ca they 'd been called so many times you know when he was low . |
| 4 | It had one of the best acoustic sound-dubbing rooms in Europe — they 'd been fitted out some time in the thirties to be used for putting soundtracks on to movies . |
| 5 | And as I continued to think about how we rarely get the measure of little children , I suddenly realized why they 'd been making so much din . |
| 6 | If they 'd been brought up all , all girls maybe their fiction would have been different . |
| 7 | The first thing most people do when they diet is to cut out many of the foods they like . |
| 8 | Yeah , so we could , yeah , you know , it 'll , it 'll be a lot better , I mean all they do is grow either that grain or corn |
| 9 | Probably cos they 've been done that much . |
| 10 | They 've been reading too much space fiction . |
| 11 | There was no covert there larger than an acre or two and they had been placed as much for their scenic effect as for their game-preserving role . |
| 12 | They had been conversing easily all afternoon . |
| 13 | She had seen so many of the students set out from her door , awkward and anxious , and after a few weeks it was as if they had been studying there all their lives . |
| 14 | When they have been eating out all the time they have been away , and are longing for an evening at home , the suggestion does not go down well . |
| 15 | They have been attracted as much by the intellectual image as by the high level of celebrity support from artists like John Cleese , Peter Gabriel and Sting . |
| 16 | After they have been released then these anxiety dreams start . |
| 17 | Are people going to have to take a medical before they can go down a street they have been going down all their lives ? ’ |