Example sentences of "they be [v-ing] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are getting some new designs in this morning , and I must see them before they are snapped up . ’ |
| 2 | But these chaps down at Bootle on Merseyside — in fact the correspondent is a woman — are , one assumes , ordinary , helpful ( they are communicating some helpful information ) and hardworking people . |
| 3 | they are laying some new fandangled pourous underlayer or summink ? |
| 4 | They are approaching some great metropolis . |
| 5 | Instead they expect us to believe that they are describing some consensual , authoritative standard of use . |
| 6 | They 're working is through and they they 're playing some super little link up stuff . |
| 7 | They 're doing some good things at weekend . |
| 8 | Could they be playing some sadeian variation on hide and seek ? |
| 9 | Course then he finished , they finished dredging at night on , at nineteen thirty two cos they said it was costing too much the did and erm they were building some new cranes down there , so I said to my father , and he was very friendly with the Harbourmaster , he said erm was there any chance of getting one of them cranes so when he went and saw the Harbourmaster he said no he said the boy do n't know nothing about electricity either so he said no nor did no other buggers he said they did n't know anything about it so he got the job . |
| 10 | He nodded a greeting to the other three visitors , who crowded into the cell as if they were playing some bizarre game of sardines . |
| 11 | It looks as if they were making some slight effort of their own up here to maintain the quality of life . |