Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [subord] they [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the authorities refrain from using force because they think it wiser to use other means , the effect is often as follows : … to prevent or resist violence , the governing class may use guile , cunning , fraud and corruption — in short . |
| 2 | Walsh , who plays Sicknote , says : ‘ The shots of fire exploding flashovers as they call them in the trade were absolutely mind-blowing . |
| 3 | No ruling class , no working class , just people producing wealth as they produced it , consuming it that would be an efficient society where nobody would go hungry , there would be no unemployment , no poverty and er it 's the ultimate objective of er the human race . |
| 4 | They might stop me having visitors if they think I reduce them to tears . |
| 5 | ‘ But she was very brave and amazed the doctors by doing things when they thought she should have been dead long ago . ’ |
| 6 | I mean , we could , one of the big problems you know in science is people only start protesting things when they think they 're credible , and often it 's very difficult to get people , first of all to think it 's credible , before they erm before you can get the tests . |
| 7 | Huddersfield asked the FA to name names , but they declined and rebuked the club for not recognizing misbehaviour when they saw it . |
| 8 | Many women resist swapping jobs because they know they could do a job a lot better or quicker themselves , or because they are frightened of ‘ having a go ’ at traditional male jobs . |
| 9 | Even among the former they failed to make a decisive impact upon the labour market before 1914 , due partly to workers ' suspicion of bureaucratic intervention in the labour market and to the indifference of employers , who had little difficulty in finding labour when they needed it . |
| 10 | Elsewhere in the north strong rulers , the kings , the counts of Flanders and Anjou , increased standardization by modifying customs when they confirmed them , or by persuading new communities to accept wholesale already existing customs . |
| 11 | But Miss Hemse maintained that his psycho-kinetic powers had bent her contraceptive device while she and her fiancé were making love as they watched him on television . |