Example sentences of "[v-ing] [subord] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One opposition leader , Mr Jacek Kuron , rendered the hardest-boiled judgment : ’ This could n't be happening if they did n't want it to happen . |
| 2 | Mrs Healy said that she heard the girls were running and laughing like they had done in Knockglen and they were hit by a car . |
| 3 | work appropriate repeat patterns five times along each side , then add other corners , checking if they work out correctly . |
| 4 | And second , how dare she imply that those hundreds of thousands of people with a spinal injury throughout the world are not walking because they lack the will to do so . |
| 5 | They are n't trading because they do n't receive income . |
| 6 | This magic had been happening while they had been closeted with the policeman discussing the prosaic and sordid details of the burglary . |
| 7 | But anyway , any I mean that 's the easy , and I mean , if , if people who are willing to drive can have experience in driving before they take passengers out . |
| 8 | It sounds doubtful to me , but anyway , there 's the insurance point of view , but anyway if people whoa re willing to drive can have experience in driving before they take passengers out . |
| 9 | Congratulations to the Mail On Sunday for checking before they stole the story , and to Passenger for being the first London shop to stock up on robots . |
| 10 | You know , the one where I retreat into a broad North Country accent which makes Su Pollard sound like a stockbroker , and start straining sycophantically and laughing before they 've finished the punchline … |
| 11 | Some students with pre-RAF flight training can skip a level and go directly to the Tucano , leaping as they do so into a world far distant from general aviation . |
| 12 | This trait is not restricted to one variety of style , for we can observe it both in passage [ 3 ] ( " though ( of course ) an undeniably fine infant " ; remorseless twins they are for striding through their human forests , notching as they go " ) ; and in passage [ 7 ] ( " as is not unusual in men of transparent simplicity " ) . |
| 13 | Representing as they have done the interests of a high-seas trading nation ( Britain still exports more per head of population than does Japan ) , British post-war leaders of all political persuasions , from Nye Bevan to Margaret Thatcher , have largely based their economic policies on the need to expand trade . |
| 14 | And the things is , they always laugh , they 're always laughing when they get on the train |
| 15 | ‘ A lot of people fell around the place laughing when they heard about the middle-aged poet bit , ’ he says . |
| 16 | There 's lots of talking and laughing when they do that — they look like they 've had a real good time . |
| 17 | She could see a couple of the other models standing near the buffet table , laughing as they accepted glasses of champagne from attentive gentlemen . |
| 18 | They were still laughing as they stepped down into the hold . |
| 19 | As always , his knack of disarming was successful , and she was even laughing as they went into the foyer of the Tudor Queen where Sam and Anna awaited them . |
| 20 | A woman was singing popular songs , and the holidaymakers were drinking and laughing as they ate their steaks . |
| 21 | They 're talking and laughing as they work . |
| 22 | He and Tommy , drunk , laughing as they offer the body a glass of cider . |
| 23 | It interknits with that world of chances and mischances , improbable or absurd or grotesque or just neutrally happening as they do happen , which we meet everywhere in later Dostoevsky and specially in The Possessed . |
| 24 | We have looked at the devices which create formal links between sentences ; at pragmatic interpretations which link literal meaning to function and social meaning ; at the existence of hierarchical structures in particular discourse types ; and finally at the conversational mechanisms which enable people to construct informal discourse together and make sense of what is happening as they do so . |
| 25 | When they die , often due to punctures received during the rutting season , they deflate and plunge down to earth , exploding as they strike the Tarmac . |
| 26 | Even lightly-oiled birds were dying as they ingested oil while attempting to preen themselves clean . |
| 27 | In the case of the letter and the drawer , the signs fail in their indexical function because , appearing as they do in an isolated expression , they simply direct us into a void . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , it is accepted that , appearing as they do in a penal statute , they fall to be construed narrowly rather than widely . |
| 29 | Modern school buildings make as much use as possible of natural light , incorporating as they do large windows . |
| 30 | My boots and feet were smouldering when they found me . |