Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adv] [conj] they [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In severe cases , they may respond by shaking and urinating uncontrollably when they come near the surgery . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | We should be approaching selected companies now , and finding out whether they wish to develop this standard . |
| 9 | ‘ Customers are spending less and thinking more before they open their purses . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |