Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [v-ing] [noun] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clare Stevens and Mark Mascal , both members of Nottingham Cathedral Group , thumbed across seven European countries collecting signatures as they went , and raising £1,000 for Amnesty International . |
| 2 | The half-boiled storyline could have been poached from a hundred different games : Dizzy and Daisy were in the Enchanted Forest collecting cherries when they became hopelessly lost . |
| 3 | Due to recent staff changes the only existing senior staff who are members of the Council are Dr Ivor Davies , Director of Planning and Mr Robin Barratt , Director of National Sports Training Centres and they will now cease to attend as members . |
| 4 | Phonological contrasts and phonetic differences may be important factors affecting accommodation but they are not the whole story . |
| 5 | Once introduced , always at the initiative of the Government , Criminal Justice Bills are rolling stones gathering accretions as they travel down the Westminster hillside towards their final destination on the statute book . |
| 6 | He also warned Lithuanians and other Soviet peoples contemplating independence that they should reflect " a thousand times " . |
| 7 | If they 're in here working all day and everyday and they see the other girls taking exams and they know I 'm going to make them work , quite often they 'll take the exams because there 's no point in not taking them , whereas I think if they were at home they would not have the same incentive . |
| 8 | I recently took the ‘ little people ’ along to my local Heron Knitting Club where they were much admired and one of our members — in fact my former knitting machine tutor — said that she had once made a whole Nativity scene with empty cones . |
| 9 | On 3 January 1992 the father 's solicitors , apparently taking exception to something said by the local authority 's solicitor in correspondence , wrote to the local authority giving notice that they would be asking the court to consider the question of costs , whether their client was successful or not . |