Example sentences of "they be [verb] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they have been just very bad , and if they have someone to stand up for them , they are given three strokes of the whip , usually by Sheldon Parry , the born-again television director , and then made to put on a short green smock for the duration of the service . |
| 2 | There is a lot of potential at Blackburn where they are building three new stands and have a very good team . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ They said they were so impressed — and now that green issues are moving up their agenda , they 've become aware that they have to run themselves in a green way — that they are committing three million dollars into researching ‘ golf and the environment ’ , and appointing an ecologist to lead the research . ’ |
| 4 | Double week Championships Series events are firmly under the impression that , at the moment , they are guaranteed three of the top ten , which is , on average , what they received throughout 1991 — and sometimes it was rather better . |
| 5 | If they are offered three piece suites they should be suspicious and if they see any of these things they should report it to us . |
| 6 | I was just querying you said you , you when you said is they 're issuing three pound to each member ? |
| 7 | But are coming in they 're quoting three or four per cent underneath . |
| 8 | So they 're spending three pounds |
| 9 | Except I would say the winders are worse off cos they 're doing three shifts . |
| 10 | But they 're doing three each now today you know . |
| 11 | they 're paying three hundred and eighty pounds , they 're paying |
| 12 | If the place failed as links the property was a valuable one , and there was no probability in their losing their money and in the meantime they were receiving three per cent which was as good as if the money were invested in Consols . |
| 13 | They were given three large doses of vitamin A over a week , and received vitamin A in all subsequent survey rounds . |
| 14 | There were all sorts of jokes about National Service and this was going to be one of them — the barracks filled with misfits who no more wanted to wear a khaki uniform than they felt like taking poison ( which some of them thought was what they were given three times a day in the cookhouse ) . |
| 15 | The defe most people , if they 've revised , would do very well on any one of these as a single essay if they were given three hours . |
| 16 | They were arrested three weeks later in Liverpool when they were again seen to remove the cash box from a kiosk . |
| 17 | They were winning three nil three two at the end of it . |
| 18 | They were winning three nil were n't they ? |
| 19 | They we , they were doing three days a week in the town . |
| 20 | They were to have three children ; Will junior , Gladys ( both of whom went on the stage ) , and Joan . |
| 21 | They was hoping three months work then . |