Example sentences of "they [be] [det] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we discover the doctrine that conscience reprimands you for every one of your pleasures erm sweet dishes , music , everything , because they are all the product of depraved and sinful human nature . |
| 2 | All of us go and take our cars in to be serviced and what have you and nearly always get a sh piece of paper comes back and please will you tick them box on a Richter scale of nought to ten er and they are all the time trying to improve er customer satisfaction . |
| 3 | AND SUDDENLY , they 're all the rage . |
| 4 | Oh it 's lovely dovely They 're all the pins and the veers that it goes through . |
| 5 | Yes , they 're all the aways written out on the top B T shareholders , do you want this ? |
| 6 | Well if you see how many pallets they got and you see the trouble is the metal ones are so slippery they 're all the while dropping meat all over the floor . |
| 7 | That 's not true , they 're all the God books up there . |
| 8 | Ye they 're all the miners , the steel workers , the clea th the |
| 9 | They 're all the picture of health . |
| 10 | they 're all the spirits talking to them |
| 11 | So then they 're all the details , and there 's examples and |
| 12 | And they 're all the time are they ? |
| 13 | They 're all the seats . |
| 14 | They 're all the daughters of rich officials . |
| 15 | The Bomb Circle , my dad 's leg and his stick , his reluctance to get me a motorbike perhaps , the candles in the skull , the legions of dead mice and hamsters — they 're all the fault of Agnes , my father 's second wife and my mother . |
| 16 | They 're half the price of hanging basket |
| 17 | And on that argument sir , the figures would be wrong whatever they are , whether they 're half the amount the County Council put forward or twice . |
| 18 | ‘ They were all the Barclaycard customers who were not using the credit facility so they did n't want to pay the annual fee . |
| 19 | Hans Weber , a frail , piercingly blue-eyed Swiss , had been a sea-captain here in the early 1900s specializing in smuggling Bird of Paradise feathers back to Europe when they were all the rage for ladies ' hats . |
| 20 | They were all the kind of diplomatic event which in normal times Mr Heath would much enjoy and at which he would perform very well . |
| 21 | They were all the family she 'd got . |
| 22 | To me they were each the source of all-things-bright-and-beautiful , and therefore identical . |