Example sentences of "they be [verb] something [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | They complain that OSF 's price list is meant for higher end machines and they are muttering something about ‘ large volumes ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But then I thought , they 're recognising something about my pictures or the place , and now I do n't mind ’ . |
| 7 | Every time they open their mouths , they 're there and they 're doing something about you . |
| 8 | Well at least they 're doing something about it |
| 9 | They 're doing something at the boy 's school , but we 're not doing anything personally . |
| 10 | It helps our children to know that they 're doing something for those children . |
| 11 | ‘ People like to feel that they 're doing something with their savings . |
| 12 | Indeed , a recurrent theme among these women was that they felt they had no right to benefit , that they were getting something for nothing , in marked contrast to a wage . |
| 13 | Well the other evening they were showing something on T V , one of these doctors ' , doctors ' practices that are opting out or whatever . |
| 14 | They were paying something like forty five pounds a year for my training . |
| 15 | And I was aware that they were doing something with my fire . |
| 16 | I think I think there was som some sent to Chester for example , I think they were doing something in the cathedral in Chester . |
| 17 | They were saying something to me about there wo n't be that bigger fall . |
| 18 | In fact … one of them was stuffing something through the wire and bars of his cage which they should n't be doing and he did n't much like it … |