Example sentences of "[verb] they be [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I mean they were banging they were banging fifteen hundred in for that disco for the first |
| 2 | Lead-free petrol is bad for your car 's health , according to motor mechanics who say they 're repairing dozens of cars which have been damaged by it . |
| 3 | Somerset police investigating the death say they are questioning two men . |
| 4 | Jim Lumb , who looks like John Cleese , says they 're having 18 ; William Hague says it 's 20 . |
| 5 | When Putnam and Buchsbaum analysed the waveforms produced by each personality it seemed they were examining 60 people , instead of 20 . |
| 6 | Based on we can do they were doing sixty five palette loads a day . |
| 7 | It was n't boring but it was , just , I mean you know they 're sitting five hundred people all at one go and it 's |
| 8 | Gilbert White was proud of his early cucumbers , cutting the first of 1753 on 5th April to take to his brother in London and when he discovered they were priced two shillings apiece in Town , arranged for a further thirteen to be conveyed on the coach from Selborne . |
| 9 | The combined annual sales of the two for their most recent fiscal years was $90m , and the partners reckon they are creating one of the largest software publishers in the consumer , home office , and small business markets , offering over 100 titles for Windows , Macintosh , and MS-DOS , and will market in over 50 countries . |
| 10 | Can I just make one point Ken , cos you were saying they 're getting thirty odd million of er of a request of two hundred million . |
| 11 | ‘ We are not trying to rip people off and planned to put a sticker on the records saying they were recorded 10 years ago . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , a firm of mechanical engineers , Hunter and English of Bow , inspected the model and reported favourably on the proposal in March 1897 , for which service they were paid 100 guineas . |
| 13 | Gloucestershire have heard they 're losing one of their leading batsmen . |
| 14 | They 're either shouting or but I mean they 're getting millions now you get this |
| 15 | I think they 're targeting one or two City firms and getting the inside track by reading their mail . |
| 16 | I think they 're saying one thing , and they do something else . |
| 17 | The cold war may be over and dead , but spooks still rule OK — the US Central Intelligence Agency has warned more than 70 US defence , aerospace and financial companies that their industrial secrets are targets of French intelligence agents and diplomats , Defense Week reports , adding that the warning has caused Hughes Aircraft Co to drop plans to exhibit aerospace equipment at the Paris Air Show in June ; a 21-page French government document from about 1990 outlines US aerospace and defence corporate secrets in which French companies are interested , US officials say ; according to the Washington Post , Hughes officials said they were told one item the French memo lists is Hughes ' HS601 communications satellite ; French firms recently outbid Hughes to provide $258m in communications birds to Arab lands . |
| 18 | What they might have heard however , had they been passing ten minutes later , even above the noise of the traffic and the raging of the wind , was a roar of someone in pain , a great and agonizing cry . |
| 19 | Had they been born 15 years earlier , Tumbleweed would probably wear loon pants and big belts and be called something like Satan 's Spaceship . |