Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adv] [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I know , I do n't know whether she was going out or coming in but they got one there now and I think they th the one they got there now I do n't know whether the Corporation , that 's theirs or whether that 's put out to contract and I think that 's put out to contract now . |
| 2 | I had forgotten how large they were ; they seemed enormous , and there were so many of them , circling overhead , clustered in a tree or hopping about as they squabbled over carrion . |
| 3 | Well he has someone saying that describing away and they say right they and just like jump off the page and start moving round the room . |
| 4 | Gold ( 1958 ) suggests that the researcher may be : ( a ) a complete participant , concealing his true identity and intentions from the group , and living entirely as they do ; or ( b ) a participant-as-observer , actively involved in the group , but they know the researcher is not really one of them ; or ( c ) an observer-as-participant , a less common mode , usually involving a brief visit with limited participation . |
| 5 | He took another head punch before ducking under Elliott 's arm and turning so that they passed one another , Culley clubbing with laced fingers . |
| 6 | This composition — two figures moving across one another and turning back as they do becomes a regular ‘ strife-motive ’ in classical art ; the west pediment of the Parthenon ( fig. 132 ) is a major example . |
| 7 | In severe cases , they may respond by shaking and urinating uncontrollably when they come near the surgery . |
| 8 | Miller had been forced to transplant some of these just as they were coming into flower , but by cutting off all the buds , placing them in a wet trench and watering continuously until they became established , he was able , in August and September to pick flowers ‘ as fair as those produced in June ’ . |
| 9 | Both played superbly , clinching the Australians £20,000 of the £25,000 prize money on offer from Texaco and doing almost as they liked with the England bowlers in a perfectly-timed run chase . |
| 10 | This is a very popular design , but unfortunately many varieties of fuchsia do not press well , turning brown and fading even before they have been removed from the press . |
| 11 | Because it 's very , I mean you know mathematicians have written books about this , erm and yeah kids of five or six are quite happily adding and taking away until they get to negative numbers , until someone says ah I 'm going to add to that money you 've got there , I 'm gon na add minus seven . |
| 12 | This attitude can , for example , be seen in a limited expression of empathy ( teenage boys and girls laughing and joking together as they help relatives of a dead baby dig a grave , for example ) . |
| 13 | We should be approaching selected companies now , and finding out whether they wish to develop this standard . |
| 14 | Bobo ran to the back of her cage and Fifi had to scamper out of the way to save herself from being trampled , and then Bobo was storming back with a handful of straw and dung which she hurled at Donaldson before slamming herself into the bars and screaming loudly as they shook . |
| 15 | ‘ Customers are spending less and thinking more before they open their purses . ’ |
| 16 | There was a danger of people having short memories , and forgetting even that they had taken part in the war … |
| 17 | All the girls helped her to get the fire going , spread the tablecloth , put out the cups and plates , laughing and whispering and bustling about as they showed her the places and secrets of the kitchen , the room that was now her room . |
| 18 | The schooled children may be aptly described as speaking explicitly when they say ‘ they are red ’ but they are not being as explicit about what they are doing as Greenfield , for instance , is attempting to be . |