Example sentences of "they [adv prt] [conj] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , for example , we see the pupils messing around , ‘ to get back at the teachers for telling them off and putting them in detention , ’ or using physical violence after being unjustly accused of a misdemeanour , or being given a ‘ soft ’ teacher . |
| 2 | Maybe Jack was rounding them up and moving them to another field . |
| 3 | Damon kept rolling them up and using them as megaphones . |
| 4 | By taking V2s from here , from the mountains , shipping them back and using them for their own experiments . |
| 5 | This means fluffing them out and adapting them to whatever atmosphere she found herself in , and is a sure sign of contentment in a lot of birds . |
| 6 | The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape . |
| 7 | Like using old '70s art covers and guitar legends , turning them around and putting them on Number One albums , ha ha ! |
| 8 | Insofar as English law requires the directors to take into account the interests of groups other than the shareholders it adopts the position that these interests do not fundamentally conflict with those of the shareholders and that it is therefore possible to arrive at a decision that balances all the relevant interests , subsuming them under or subordinating them to the vaguely defined collective goal of the organization . |
| 9 | One takes twenty minutes which is Dr is taking them round and telling them about the Hall . |