Example sentences of "[verb] they [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I since you 've already contacted them in person , erm phoning them 's not going to you know reassure them that we 're a bona fide company |
| 2 | Courtiers who had come to expect her barely to acknowledge them were suddenly treated to radiant smiles and cheerful banter . |
| 3 | They had both been asked about other men who were in France and answered patiently , knowing that the distraught women who asked them were only clutching at straws . |
| 4 | MI5 claimed to have carefully investigated each of the stories and told the inquiry that no evidence to support them was ever found . |
| 5 | these values have to have an intrinsically prescriptive character , so that to know them is necessarily to have the will affected in a certain way . |
| 6 | Can we persuade departments of the need to ensure that creation of such directories is mapped , and that the terms of reference and composition of working groups which created them are adequately documented ? |
| 7 | Spender implies that linguists are passively following a sexist rule of English grammar ; I suggest they are actively creating one . |
| 8 | Mythological stories about them suggest they are necessarily seen in this simplistic way to reaffirm to ‘ real polises ’ that it is they who are the true inhabitants of the pragmatic world of conflict and action . |
| 9 | Oh they probably do n't know they 're there do they ? |
| 10 | They do n't know they is n't gon na just churn out , oh yeah well we 'd better pay that mate , eighteen thousand quid ! |
| 11 | it was solid and it was all sort of , his age , fifteen , sixteen , seventeen , eighteen year olds and all vowing they 're never gon na sniff whatever again , you know all making these |
| 12 | After the war , Bomber Harris tried to get an issue of a campaign medal for the ground crews on operational airfields , as he maintained they were completely ignored when the medals were handed out . |
| 13 | Mind you , I expect they 're already fixed up with a vet . |
| 14 | The four partners — all Irish — had planned to be open for St Patrick 's Day but , as the photo shows , that did n't stop them unfurling their banner to indicate they were already prepared for next year . |
| 15 | Yeah so I mean with , with younger people it 's , although th they 're still not , it 's still not going to be easy-easy er like with the older people , there 's still the , the disturbance element that in years to come they are not going to have this to fall back on because by the time that they retire it 's just not going to exist . |
| 16 | Ockleton and I were both asleep , so neither of us can be sure he did n't slam on the brakes — only to find they were n't working . |
| 17 | As a senior diplomat said last week : ‘ The people went out and found they were n't struck by lightning . ’ |
| 18 | However , it is my belief that when rabbits were introduced here and multiplied they were then predated upon by animals already resident . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd like a new member of staff to know they are there to help people who ca n't help themselves and they also must have one hell of a lot of patience ! |
| 20 | With no reason not to come in — since it was the spirit of the house that people should sit around the kitchen table talking — they seemed to sense a unity , to know they were not wanted . |
| 21 | The last thing they wanted was for the Americans to know they were about to learn their secrets . |
| 22 | I sense they are both increasing . |
| 23 | They say they 're just trying to stretch brighter pupils by letting them use facilities not available at most primary schools . |
| 24 | Landlords say they 're increasingly serving more food than drink , especially in country pubs . |
| 25 | Staff at Watford Gap say they 're not looking for a place in the annals of high cuisine , just to continue making their customers a nice cup of tea in the morning or a nice cup of tea with their tea . |
| 26 | Police say they 're not treating it as suspicious . |
| 27 | But Chelsea say they 're not paying a penny . |
| 28 | Cotwold Council officers say they 're not running a vendetta against the Hintons . |
| 29 | They say they 're not shutting it there 's not much we can do is there ? |
| 30 | Er they say they 're not worked hard well I think they have they 've moved er moved a few thousand tons from there and erm . |