Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] they [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason why they maintained these holdings in dollars , rather than selling them for some other currency , was that dollar investments in New York remained attractive despite the decline in the relative value of the dollar in the early seventies . |
| 2 | Children 's co-operation can be secured by guiding and helping them towards some desirable action or way of thought . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Because of the mismatch between processor and transput device speeds , we are led to consider uncoupling the devices from direct processor control and providing them with some degree of autonomy . |
| 5 | Er people are very very good actually at enduring them and er and taking them in some ways for granted . |
| 6 | Knowledge Adventure is very good at throwing out nuggets of information , and placing them into some sort of context . |