Example sentences of "[v-ing] [subord] they [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was wondering if they 'd found it . |
| 2 | When it sometimes emerged from her own lips , her teachers or friends would look at her oddly , wondering whether they had heard her correctly . |
| 3 | We were originally going to do two shows at Knebworth , but we had to cancel one because they figured it would be too hard — we could n't get the trucks there on time and get the show going when they wanted to do it . |
| 4 | In order that you do n't fight this ventilator , and also that you do n't start twitching when they start carving you up , they inject you with a chemical er a muscle depolarizer that stops your muscles working . |
| 5 | He was standing where they had left him , a long way back now , gazing after them . |
| 6 | In one typical case reported recently by the Union of Communication Workers , an operator was asked by the ambulance service to keep a woman talking until they arrived to prevent her falling into a coma . |
| 7 | You 're hopeless at keeping a secret for you make it so obvious that people are sure to keep probing until they 've winkled it out of you . |
| 8 | The following day I asked the young women of an all-girls ' school I was visiting if they had seen her , and what they thought . |
| 9 | Five hours later officers admitted the £9,000 Bedford Astra had gone missing before they had checked it for fingerprints . |