Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun pl] [conj] [v-ing] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once back upstairs in the box , he could not leave the mystery alone and his mind conjured up all sorts of solutions but analysing them brought no relief . |
| 2 | How about going wild and making squares of patterns and joining them to make a sweater ? |
| 3 | The briefing , however , mostly consisted of Mortimer 's dividing the force into groups and assigning them positions to take up in the scrub around the cemetery , which was illustrated by a simple chalk sketch Petion had done on a blackboard . |
| 4 | Then we was taken out of there into the Corporation Street where the fair used to be held and we had silhouettes of different aircraft on poles and holding them up and we er so as we could recognize them . |
| 5 | In Home Corner areas , replacing lids , using cups with saucers or hanging them on hooks provided . |
| 6 | But I can reassure members that I 've spoken to the department , and they are committed to attempt to encourage disabled applicants for jobs and taking them on . |
| 7 | He worked frantically to help the casualties , tearing up what was left of his linen for bandages and soaking them in olive oil and wax to apply to bums . |
| 8 | ‘ How much is really saved by reducing a species to a handful of survivors and banishing them to glorified captivity ? |
| 9 | Like Lord Nelson ( who generally operated on wetter and bumpier pitches ) , Fender anticipated modern theories of participative management by involving his team in decisions and keeping them fully briefed on his plans . |
| 10 | Even where this does not happen , colleges can still make courses more accessible to unemployed people by experimenting with the timing and publicity for courses and supporting them with creches and easy access arrangements . |
| 11 | This involves taking a sample of households and classifying them according to their income groups . |
| 12 | Heads could make better use of their time by paying attention to those encouraging little friendly attributes , searching for the successes of others and praising them shamelessly . |
| 13 | Then I taught in a secondary modern in Hackney , before getting involved in the pioneering days of schools ' drama , touring happily doing plays in schools and inspiring them to do their own . ’ |
| 14 | Cassowary behaved like the ruffian that he was , tearing away whole clusters of berries and gorging them all at once , champing and crashing among the bushes . |
| 15 | When I 'd extracted my head from the carrying rope , Kāli untied the bale and started scooping up armloads of pine-needles and throwing them to the top of the pile . |
| 16 | a special kind of scanner which provides a means of reading printed characters on documents and converting them into digital codes that can be read into a computer as actual text rather than just a picture . |
| 17 | The heat tended to dry up the gum on stamps and getting them to stick on was the very devil . |
| 18 | The auditory task consisted of listening to a random list of numbers and repeating them as they were presented . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've had a number of opportunities and taking them , particularly in the oil industry , has sometimes been a desperate gamble . ’ |
| 20 | The drafter may be tempted to adopt a 'scissors and paste " approach , drawing individual clauses from a number of precedents and putting them together to form a finished product . |
| 21 | Where this is the case , some teachers experiment with ways of collecting examples of lectures and using them as the basis for the language lesson . |
| 22 | Then , calm restored , they went about the business of confiscating the property of Japanese-Americans and sending them to concentration camps . |
| 23 | I have been missing a lot of bites and assuming they are false takes — probably on the shoe — I will replace the No.8 with a No.12 Styl , hoping to eliminate the problem . |
| 24 | I 'd been loading for him , loading the t coal into tubs and tramming them . |
| 25 | With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket . |
| 26 | How would we feel if France started putting its criminals in boats and sending them over the Channel to us ? |
| 27 | It requires member states to set rules on mandatory bids , providing information to shareholders and treating them equally . |
| 28 | Order Code : 9350 Total Disks : 1 This program is ideal for introducing children to computers and helping them with their spelling . |
| 29 | By 1305 royal clerks were acting as receivers of petitions and sorting them out among auditors or triers , crown ministers and lawyers , who were usually clerics . |
| 30 | Kirov crouched at his side , removing a couple of pins and replacing them in exactly the same position . |