Example sentences of "and they be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They say he may strike again and they 're appealing to anyone who recognises this picture to contact their local police station .
2 They do a lot of the day-to-day running of society , and they 're rough .
3 She 's teamed up with Gill Clark and they 're current national doubles champions .
4 She 's teamed up with Gill Clark and they 're current national doubles champions .
5 I went to all the lectures and they 're easy to go to , because you 're spoon-fed , they do n't sit back and they do n't philosophize , a lot of it , it 's all material on the board , which can be a bit boring sometimes , but we 've done some big course like quantum mechanics and there have been a few other theoretical ones which have been really involved but the lecturers have been really good , you can see how excited they are , and it starts spilling over to you .
6 ‘ They 're running a terror campaign , and they 're lethal .
7 ‘ Only two left , and they 're simple .
8 I think they 're fifteenth century they they they they are they 're well cut and they 're well
9 The babies get wheeled or carried in here , and they 're well enough , and you look them over and say something like ‘ This little fella 's just fine ’ .
10 And they 're real dangerous too — they might jump onto the pavement and swallow me up with their big eyes .
11 ‘ I 'm lucky , really , because I 'm with Denis and Astrid and they 're real friends — good friends and their comfort is so welcome — but I 'm in a foreign country so I 'm alone , and what I most want to do is talk about Dad to people — which is why I 'm writing this .
12 And they 're all mine and they 're real .
13 And they 're sure it 's this attitude that has made them so successful .
14 The colt races in the colours of Chris 's wife Shirley , and they 're due a bit of luck — a horse they bought over from Ireland for Henrietta Knight to train died of colic not long ago .
15 ‘ She 's got a decent allowance and they 're wanting women in all kinds of work now .
16 And they 're that bit better than you because they 're able to organise themselves and they do more in day and do it longer and so and so forth .
17 read the lot , I mean , look what they doing language-wise , they 're reading , they 're evaluating , they 're projecting I mean , the that , they 're doing quite complicated things there , and also hopefully there will be enough space where they have the opportunity to put something that is meaningful and they 're involved in the dialogue with the form
18 And anyway — suppose the war hots up , and they 're desperate for men ? ’
19 I think that the compan companies out there have not made any profits for about five years , and they 're desperate to return to er an even keel , and they are going to force up the price of goods and services as soon humanly possible , and we 'll pick up the bill .
20 And what it actually means if you see them like that it actually means that there are two beats in a bar and they 're dotted beats
21 He 's Fiona 's cousin , and they 're close .
22 He said I just speak to him he said when I see him and they 're nice to me and I 'm nice to them .
23 And they 're decent people .
24 ‘ Our membership stands at around 95 , spread throughout the country and they 're marvellous , donating what they can .
25 Now if you 've got sugar on you when you 're out give them sugar , four cubes of sugar and they 're marvellous , they come round just like that and erm then they 'll got off and stabilize themselves .
26 When you put them on board they just will change shape so they 'll fit in and they 're marvellous for for packing in .
27 They are sure they are no good at such things , and they 're right .
28 Everyone else is wrong and they 're right . ’
29 ‘ I can remember when that did n't seem so unlikely , and I thought , well , if anything like that does ever happen , and they 're right and the establishment is wrong , then it would n't do any harm for there to be people like me in the Army who were basically in sympathy with the … movement , whatever . ’
30 And they 're right , because the idea of wandering around with a radio-equipped , RISC-based , flat tablet , scribbling notes and then faxing them off Star Trek-style to headquarters , is so far from the reality of poor handwriting recognition , disappointing battery life , so-so screens and skyscrapingly high prices , that most users simply have n't bothered .
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