Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun sg] [conj] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE flight from Berlin to Cap de la Hague took just over three hours , Asa charting a course that took them over parts of occupied Holland , Belgium and then France . |
| 2 | From the opening , during the cold New York winter of 1967 , the queues extending round the block outside Manhattan cinemas consisted mostly of young people hugging themselves and each other , and stamping their feet to keep warm , full of the expectation of seeing a movie that addressed them and their problems . |
| 3 | It is therefore necessary to pick up the optical signals , convert them into electrical signals , amplify them using a repeater and re-convert them into optical signals every so often along the way . |
| 4 | Yet the same dancers can look confident and articulate when they are performing a style that suits them . |
| 5 | They both agreed that if you could n't enjoy yourself on the way , what was the point in running a business that afforded them so much freedom to travel ? |
| 6 | The sudden jerky movement rocked the boat , creating a wave that knocked them both off balance . |
| 7 | If conservatives could hold the line , they stood a chance of enacting a settlement that suited them . |
| 8 | Girls can be encouraged to take modules in technology without feeling they are committing themselves to two years ' or more work ; low achieving pupils can take a range of modules without suffering the indignity of following a programme that marks them out as ‘ different ’ . |
| 9 | They are following a path that leaves them vulnerable to just the type of discount-retailing that has flourished in Germany . |