Example sentences of "they are [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they are taking her to the High Court . |
| 2 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 3 | " The [ communist ] movement is starting to fade away , they are alienating themselves from the people , " Buscayno told an interviewer . |
| 4 | I have no doubt about it that the government are urging us at this moment , er I I am concerned about that , they are urging us by the er |
| 5 | When parents are so concerned for the children 's safety that they prevent them from exercising choice and making decisions , they are depriving them of the experience they need in order to cope with life as mature adults . |
| 6 | He said When they are stabbing you in the back and behaving totally idiotically . |
| 7 | All this trouble they are giving us despite the fact that I have a UK passport . |
| 8 | Trainees will probably need a lot of guidance in completing the exercise in Handout 14 both because they are doing it without the benefit of parents and in order to keep their CBs both objective and closely related to the PBs . |
| 9 | ‘ The only difference between Lee and Roy Keane and David Hirst is that they are doing it in the Premier League . |
| 10 | They are leading us in the direction of a central truth about life on Earth , the truth that I alluded to in my opening paragraph about willow seeds . |