Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [subord] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There are other good vignettes of people telephoning each other to say goodbye , huddling in corner stores and generally acting as they do in scary SF movies . |
| 4 | They needed no second bidding but rode as fast as they could , not pausing until they thundered through the half-open gate of Godstowe Priory , putting the porter into such serious agitation he appeared almost sober for once . |
| 5 | this idea pettiness you know , but you 're just waiting while they get their load done , to come up with some suggestion . |
| 6 | With his head turned his face was close to hers and he would stare right at her , maybe thinking nobody could see him in the dimness , or maybe not caring if they did . |
| 7 | But they 're not saying if they have Bosnia in mind . |
| 8 | They probably talked to him already , they 'd have talked to everybody in that block , just asking if they saw or heard anything . |
| 9 | A tiny patch of blue punctured the dark blanket of sky , and the sun peeped out from a corner of the horizon as they headed down the beach , not stopping until they reached a small rocky promontory shaded by bushy casuarinas . |
| 10 | Many women left not knowing if they had been attacked or simply been through a formal examination . ’ |
| 11 | It must be an awful strain for the parents not knowing if they have the right baby . ’ |
| 12 | But they 're not fighting because they 've nobody no , national officials to fight for them . |
| 13 | Dusk was just falling as they turned into the parking area down by the river . |
| 14 | We are not talking about the merits and de-merits of fox hunting we are not talking whether they die slowly or fast or what should be done . |
| 15 | It is that they are not talking because they see no way to settle their differences . |
| 16 | Drivers were asked to give the risk rating immediately they heard the tone and it was emphasized that this rating should be one of what they were already feeling when they heard the tone rather than a subsequent assessment of the risk present . |
| 17 | They were still laughing as they stepped down into the hold . |
| 18 | And the things is , they always laugh , they 're always laughing when they get on the train |
| 19 | He was still shouting as they walked past the barbed wire and the concrete blocks down to the waterline . |
| 20 | He was still grinning when they rode into the camp which had been built by the Moi in a bend of the slow-flowing river . |
| 21 | She was still seething when they got into his luxury car , hired , he told her , as he did n't keep one of his own here , his visits to Taipei being infrequent and usually brief . |
| 22 | He was ashamed of the way his father sat in his armchair staring at them without joining in the conversation , or even rudely reading as they talked . |
| 23 | Daylight was quickly fading as they walked up the street to the nurse 's house . |
| 24 | He imagined her wish to go on teaching for they shared , he and she , did they not , a pastoral compulsion . |
| 25 | They were practically cheering as they raced across the scabby grass down to the mill . |
| 26 | Herbal cigarettes are not recommended as an aid to giving up smoking because they contain both tar and carbon monoxide . |
| 27 | For instance , those who have missed some training , through injury , illness or lethargy , are probably wondering whether they have done enough . |
| 28 | ‘ I just kept on asking until they found you . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You do realise you 're going to get the Press really going when they see you this evening , do n't you ? |
| 30 | erm schools just do n't help girls to have both and so a lot of the talk about underachievement , and I do n't like that word , amongst girls really ignores the fact that girls are n't underachieving when they do n't go all out for occupational success , when they do n't set their goals very high in schools , they are being very rational because if they do achieve they are going to be faced with immense problems . |