Example sentences of "they 're [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | one of the favourites to win the British Hangliding Championships is Pete Harvey from Milton Keynes … he helped Britain to third in the world cup which has just finished in California … now he 's taking off for Spain … that'ss where they 're holding the British competition … why its hot sunny and its ' not raining … |
| 2 | This is the culmination of a campaign to mobilise white opinion against President de Klerk 's reforms , and to launch what they 're calling the third freedom struggle of the Boer Nation . |
| 3 | ‘ And whatever happens in the jump off , if they pick Dalton , they 're picking the wrong man . ’ |
| 4 | It 's very likely to turn some of these children themselves into sort of er mutant monsters , er some of them behave extraordinarily badly , and yet they 're very sweet children when they 're eating the right diet . |
| 5 | But can shoppers tell when they 're getting the genuine article ? |
| 6 | You 've had to be like that all the time , otherwise you feel like you ai n't getting there , they 're getting the better of you , like … ’ cos you listen , do n't you , when you 've had the baby they are supposed to help you and advise you , so you take all their … but then you can only take so much , and you think these must be the mad ones , like . |
| 7 | I was born a poor black boy down in Mississippi , out in Alabama and he 's like a jet white ai n't he ? and he says I always felt different cos all the other kids they just sit there and they 'd be tapping their feet and then you go onto the oh and they 're getting the old rhythm going , like they do and he 'd be going like I all so different I could n't quite do this and he used to get in look , and er |
| 8 | They 're taking the real feeling of Liverpool away , ’ she said . |
| 9 | cos you know it 's the new erm the intake where they 're taking the younger children . |
| 10 | They 're taking the same men on . |
| 11 | Because they 're promoting the rich peasant economy in the short run . |
| 12 | as for the rest of the squad they 're enjoying the english snow … |
| 13 | Estate staff will be particularly sad to see the deer go and they 're hoping the whole herd can be sold together , hopefully to grace the grounds of another country estate . |
| 14 | And now it seems they 're loading the whole blame for Germany on him , and he 's only a corporal and the Army 's his whole — |
| 15 | They 're retiring to various parts of the country , down here onto the Sussex coast and on the whole coast into the South West — to the pleasant places if they can afford to do it , and they 're leaving the inner city and leaving behind there a lot of young families , often single parent families and older people , and of course the kind of provision you have to make , the Social Services , the needs of these communities differ quite widely . |
| 16 | Let me just suggest to you that you are sending all the wrong signals on women , on Party constitution , on economic matters , on policy matters , the modernizers have lost the impetus , they 're sending the wrong signals . |
| 17 | Yeah , he sort of sneaks , sneaks round everybody when they 're looking the other way . |
| 18 | Erm , they 're called the unorganised manager , erm , and the one , there are in fact four in the series , but we only see two of them . |
| 19 | ‘ The boys spent all their time together and they 're called the terrible twins because they 're so alike . ’ |
| 20 | On the other side of the world they 're called the fair maids of February , but on this side they 're known as the sweet maids of September . |
| 21 | So they 're not taking any action against the chap for shooting the dog but now they 're , they 're watching the other chap for causing disturbances ! |
| 22 | Experts say the latest outbreak is n't as serious as the epidemic of '89 … but they 're warning the worst is still to come . |
| 23 | He then goes on to refer quite correctly to the fact that apparently they 're using the nineteen eighty one census figures , instead of the ninety one census figures , this could result in er , a reduction in the amount of the cash available , and we should resist that , I personally think that 's less important . |
| 24 | They are , they 're guesses , they 're using the current mean of three hundred and fifty one , erm , and then tilting that according to the seasonality er that 's shown over the last five years . |
| 25 | The implication has been all along that they 're using the same United States manufacturing source but in fact there are one or two discrepancies here , erm , because the value is so high , I 'm actually sort of going through and looking at everything pretty closely , and they 've changed the basis so wow , . |
| 26 | They 're using the original drawings by Isambard Kingdom Brunel . |
| 27 | What if they 're using the public demands and the public deadline to distract attention from — something else ? ’ |
| 28 | They 're recreating the original garden design . |
| 29 | You see he 's got like a letter off the tax , they 're wanting the twenty five percent . |
| 30 | ‘ They lost the government spending argument in the late Seventies and Eighties , now they 're trying the environmental route . ’ |