Example sentences of "they 're [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're refusing to release any information about the man they 've arrested . |
| 2 | They tend to say , oh well , he 's black so it 's to be expected , they 're bound to do that , so when they give you that kind of attitude , you think oh well , blow them , if that 's what they think , why not act like that . |
| 3 | They 're bound to show all the action replays afterwards |
| 4 | Why are they worried about wardrobes when they 're getting married all they need 's a bed . |
| 5 | They 're getting fined more for marrying again er than they would if they 'd committed a crime . |
| 6 | They 're hoping fall all back down again that they 're gon na fall back . |
| 7 | They 've cut the Health and Safety Secretary 's budget for this year , they 're looking to privatize many of the H S E's functions , they 've set up a review to identify health and safety legislation that is a so-called burden on employers . |
| 8 | For the future of course , we have now erm negotiated with Eurofighter a rather better arrangement , they 're setting up a joint team , they 're trying to do all the work in one place and they really are now making a lot of progress . |
| 9 | So what the parents are doing is they 're rewarding the duckling that runs the furthest and the fastest , to erm , they 're trying to reinforce that behaviour , because what they 're are trying to do , is get the ducklings away from the nest and start looking for , for food for themselves , presumably . |
| 10 | Well they 're trying to set this trial are n't they ? |
| 11 | And i I you know , it it just looks as though erm they 're trying to force more and more onto the voluntary erm centres and the voluntary organizations , to provide resources and to provide help . |
| 12 | ‘ They 're trying to cut each other to ribbons . |
| 13 | They 're trying to cut that down , I mean , we have now , what is called , station officer 's assistants and most police forces have them where they 're |
| 14 | how they do when th they 're trying to scare some of them off . |
| 15 | and they 're trying to get some record of , of what |
| 16 | They 're beginning to fall all o , now . |
| 17 | Now that is bang opposite where they 're proposing to put this Rockhill site . |
| 18 | and you send it off and they send you a booklet where you pick a holiday and this go-kart worth a thousand pound on the so they 're having to do that you see . |
| 19 | Talking to our readers , Personnel Managers , we find that they 're having to force most of Britain 's bosses to take time off over less than a quarter of British managers regularly take all their holiday entitlement . |
| 20 | who who do you think , I mean , th , you know , the government 's making it pretty clear at the moment , Mrs , that that er , in these troubled times something 's gon na get squeezed because there 's so m , many people out of work that gi , you know , they 're having to pay more unemployment benefit , there 's not enough tax money coming and and generally the government is hard up , so someone 's going to get squeezed in the social security system . |
| 21 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 22 | Now if the Liberals wish to vote for five hundred people to lose their jobs because they 're allowed to do all well and good and our press release afterwards will make sure the people are aware of this . |
| 23 | Mm , well it 's supposed , they 're designed to do that are n't they , so at the end of it you 're ready to throttle them , when you got the punch line it 's on telly |
| 24 | Drivers go to pubs and if they 're encouraged to drink more alcohol , the liklihood is they will cause an accident and kill themselves or other innocent people . |
| 25 | Well at least they 're going to see each other again . |
| 26 | long time to remember what 's going to happen in three months ' time , but if it 's something related to an event like Christmas or Easter or something like that , a lot of , a lot of press people are always thinking ‘ What the hell am I going to do that 's different for Christmas or Easter or so forth , ’ so if you do a signal , lay on a special event related to a , a time , in other words a sort of custom , a calendar custom-type event , they 're going to appreciate that notice because they may do some forward planning which would actually help them in that respect . |
| 27 | So that they really mean they 're going to do that and then |
| 28 | Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way . |
| 29 | It 's Friday evening and Joelle rings a friend to discuss what they 're going to do that night : |
| 30 | ‘ I expect everyone 's being asked if they 're going to do any overthrowing , ’ said Gurder wisely . |