Example sentences of "they be [verb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are too many people nowadays who think they are achieving something by changing the scenery as often as possible : hitchhiking through Europe , peddling across Asia , rowing across the Atlantic and so forth . |
| 2 | 2 If a word has a number of meanings which are a little different , then they are printed one after another and numbered . |
| 3 | She advises worried parents to take their children out to museums , the theatre and cinema , and to make sure that they are getting plenty of interaction with other children . |
| 4 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 5 | They are taught nothing about helping people to die . |
| 6 | Ah well , they are refurbishing plenty of other things besides the buildings and the language . |
| 7 | Managers often view a job at Shell , where they are given plenty of decisions to make early on in their career , as an alternative to taking an MBA . |
| 8 | They complain that OSF 's price list is meant for higher end machines and they are muttering something about ‘ large volumes ’ . |
| 9 | People who have been through this experience will describe how angry they feel with the doctor when having asked , ‘ How long ’ , they are told something like , ‘ We ca n't really say . |
| 10 | And erm the only other outstanding sponsor from last year was Northern Rock and that has been a bit of a qu a problem because er it 's , we have n't had a closing gala event which might attract them but just recently erm Paul who as you know performed last year with his band so er well er is , had rang me and said that they are doing something in Venice and they could in fact take the boat to Hull rather than to Dover and bring it here and I 'm , so I 'm working on the assumption that we might have that . |
| 11 | But then I thought , they 're recognising something about my pictures or the place , and now I do n't mind ’ . |
| 12 | But people now are coming in and they 're expecting everything to be here . |
| 13 | they 're earning nothing for us and really |
| 14 | And they 're getting plenty of action . |
| 15 | And the way the management work in here , I can say is they , aim they 're promoting anybody to a chargehand they usually promote somebody that 's actually no threat to themselves . |
| 16 | I imagine they 're speaking plenty of it , though . |
| 17 | You know , but there not , there lovely , lovely people and they 're do anything for you , but we say to them , you know , oh well life 's boring and your know sort of , and , but , life has n't got to be boring , when you 've got no money wor worries life should n't be boring . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | They 're fixing one on Monday so I can see it but I 've already talked to other people who 've done it and they 're so popular . |
| 20 | No , they 're doing one on their own , no , we 'll come back to that later on . |
| 21 | Every time they open their mouths , they 're there and they 're doing something about you . |
| 22 | Well at least they 're doing something about it |
| 23 | They 're doing something at the boy 's school , but we 're not doing anything personally . |
| 24 | It helps our children to know that they 're doing something for those children . |
| 25 | ‘ People like to feel that they 're doing something with their savings . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | There 's no toilets , nothing for them , I mean they 're doing everything in public , I mean it 's not right , it 's making life bad and this is meant to be a holiday resort . |
| 28 | Faced with lingering criticisms that NT is still fat and slow , they 're doing lots of performance tuning and debugging — which of course leads to the burning issue of when NT will actually be released . |
| 29 | Faced with lingering criticisms that NT is still fat and slow , they 're doing lots of performance tuning and debugging , which of course leads to the burning issue of when NT will actually be shipped . |
| 30 | The Department for National Savings , for example , contains enough papers that if they were piled one on top of the other they would reach the height of nine and a half Mount Everests ! |