Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] they [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat silent for a moment , glancing with a look of displeasure at the cars jamming them in on either side . |
| 2 | No but I mean you 'd gi maybe give somebody a bit of pleasure sorting them out . |
| 3 | We need people of talent , whatever their political persuasions , in such public positions and I look forward to people of talent taking them up regularly . |
| 4 | They will be ready for November , before the government grant settlement arrives , and work will begin in the finance officer 's department paring them down in bilateral discussions . |
| 5 | In the back of the car taking them in to Paris , he sat with his hands clasped on his bare knees , and a tight closed expression on his face . |
| 6 | Nara and the twins were endlessly fascinated with the little , blind , half-bald creatures , and spent hours picking them up and playing with them . |
| 7 | going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades |
| 8 | The constabulary was hard at work driving them out again and giving out cautions that whoever took in any of the evicted would himself be turned out . |
| 9 | They can be observed flitting across the pit as they attempt to swim , with the parent picking them up and spitting them back into the quivering mass . |
| 10 | In addition to the barristers in practice , a considerable number have used the Bar as a stepping stone or crutch leading them on to other things . |
| 11 | Maybe it was something she found in one of her bins It was just six dots , anyway , and some lines joining them up Five of the dots had names , Sometimes she said they were stars , sometimes they were the names of cities . |
| 12 | Suddenly she realised that another pair of hands was piling rugs on and a pair of feet treading them down . |
| 13 | It would have been busy with pupils going to a nearby school and parents dropping them off . |
| 14 | Thame 's Russell was then dismissed for dissent taking them down to nine men , from which there was no way back and Headington ran out comfortable winners . |
| 15 | I see the bloke putting them up . |
| 16 | This has opened the door to bare , inadequate denials ( see Chapter 8 ) but these do still stand the risk of the district judge striking them out . |
| 17 | At the top end , very high-fliers are still in demand , to the extent that recruiters sometimes have difficulty pulling them down from the stratosphere to fill plum vacancies . |
| 18 | They did n't want any cops pulling them over and asking them what they were doing with a man tied to a chair in the back of their truck . |
| 19 | To prevent birds pulling them up , net the rows until they root and cut off any wispy tips . |
| 20 | In addition to using casual workers to man up for " events " , we also found cases of organisations bringing them in to cope with peaks in what might be termed their " more continuous " activities . |
| 21 | I had to hang blankets over the windows at night , and in the morning they were so heavy with moisture that I had a proper job taking them down . |
| 22 | ‘ I had to pick up two bikes from Stockton and , because I could n't park outside my shop , I got soaked in heavy rain wheeling them in . ’ |
| 23 | Indeed , in so far as the law represents the embodiment of those rules deemed so important by society as to warrant setting them out formally with appropriate sanctions for non-observance , legal principles are the most important regulators of doctors ' decisions . |
| 24 | Bees were quietly going about their business , bumbling from flower to flower , the hot summer day bringing them out in force . |
| 25 | It was an extremely windy day , and we had problems keeping them down . |
| 26 | If the bride or groom or their families or ancestors are famous , it might be worth your while looking them up in Who 's Who , and similar reference works , of which there are many editions covering authors , scientists , theatrical personages , and royalty . |
| 27 | Most recent of course , is euthanasia it does n't draw the line at killing foxes I had this terrible vision in the early hours this morning , of Ron closing all our elderly persons ' homes , pushing all the old people out onto the street and the hunt with at its head hunting them down the countryside . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're mad for riding in machines with whirring bits of metal pushing them along , yet you 're worried about sitting on a perfectly natural bird . ’ |
| 29 | Oxford , at 34 , with coach Pat Sweeney urging them on from the Oxford launch , began to assert their full power off Duke 's Meadows , drawing ahead while Cambridge , at 35 , began to look vulnerable . |
| 30 | In his imagination he saw Brückner stuffing them in to his pockets , wrapped in the clothing of the woman he had raped , while his companion murdered her . |