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 . |