Example sentences of "they be [verb] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are lulling me into believing that they suspect nothing , so that they can catch us together . |
| 2 | Since we could barely stand up or speak there was little point in dropping in on Ted and Theresia , although perhaps they would n't have noticed much difference in my case , given as they are to ply me with drink . |
| 3 | They are making me into an addict , so that I may never leave home … . |
| 4 | Well I think I 've been rather more fortunate , the two branch managers I 've had er , before , I 'd not had long enough , er , both have given albeit not regular , but feedback both positive and negative , er , when you 're doing a good job and when you 're doing a bad job , and er , in all honesty , it 's probably the appraisal itself , that 's actually been unnecessary because of their feedback they 're given me during the year , because the appraisal is just a formal repetition of what 's already been said . |
| 5 | When we went , it was really funny , when we went to do the , the talk erm , afterwards when we were all sort of getting together and having a chat , they 're telling me about , they do artificial , they artificial inseminate pigs |
| 6 | They 're keeping me to the contract … wanting their pound o ’ flesh . |
| 7 | I mean they 're the ones who are badgering me for , for qualifications , they 're badgering me for , I , I , I just told them straight that I will do it for them because I , I wo n't get paid for it |
| 8 | They 're paying me for forty hours . |
| 9 | I knew they were discussing me in private , but I was seriously alarmed when I discovered what they had decided . |
| 10 | IWAS looking at them uncomprehendingly ; they were eyeing me like a cat watches a captured mouse that might yet try to make a dash for freedom . |
| 11 | They were using me as a guinea-pig to investigate the hourly variation in mental efficiency of those with irregular sleeping patterns , such as airline pilots or globe-trotting diplomats . |
| 12 | They put the ideas together and I suddenly became aware that they were teaching me about substitutionary atonement . |
| 13 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
| 14 | His claim that ‘ if they were to put me into a barrel , I would shout glory out through the bunghole ! ’ was not a facetious pose , but the normal expression of an irrepressibly good-humoured Christian . |
| 15 | They swallowed it and said they were charging me with handling stolen goods . |
| 16 | I do n't think I would have made quite so much impact , however , if it had n't been for the fact that , while they were carrying me round the church yelling , ‘ Aliens ! ’ 'Jesus Christ ! ’ and ‘ The snake cometh ! ’ the roof fell in . |
| 17 | At the time , people felt they had secure jobs er in the M O D and the dockyard and so people accepted that with pensions and everything that goes with that sort of secure job , now of course the whole situation is enormously diff different and I was saying to , I have some French people staying with me this morning and I was , they were asking me about wages and I was saying to my daughter who works er on a Thursday evening in the local Sainsburys , earns more per hour than a friend of mine , well two friends of mine , one of whom is a carpenter , a fully qualified carpenter and the other is a motor mechanic , and that 's an indication of the sort of level of wages that people are paid in this area . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , I was down there because they were questioning me about some old clothes . |
| 19 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |