Example sentences of "[v-ing] they [adv prt] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of rooting them out and replacing them , we can leave them undisturbed until they are intermingled with the new presuppositions of Christian truth which should be the sole foundation of the Christian 's mind . |
| 2 | Only after ‘ tedious battering the top thereof with pick-axes ’ did they eventually undermine two of its six sides bringing them down and leaving the tower in the state in which it is today . |
| 3 | He looked at Rosie and Holly , drawing them in and lowering his voice for effect . |
| 4 | She liked to spend her time with the other old people , exchanging grumbles and , as she put it , cheerin' them up and takin' them out o' themselves . |
| 5 | I suggest wiring them up and trailing them overboard to thaw . |
| 6 | I mean if you watch a child , and I have a seven year old boy , playing stacking cards or dominoes is the current thing in our house , watching them stack them and then knocking them off and watching them fall and the way they fall , the amount of work which is involved there in structures and forces and the nature of gravity and the way things behave under gravity fascinate them . |
| 7 | I mean if you watch a child , and I have a seven year old boy , playing stacking cards or dominoes is the current thing in our house , watching them stack them and then knocking them off and watching them fall and the way they fall , the amount of work which is involved there in structures and forces and the nature of gravity and the way things behave under gravity fascinate them . |
| 8 | Far around , on all sides , stood the orderly rows of beans , securing them against hostile approach , roofing them over and covering their scent . |
| 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 | They are potentially very dangerous and what we are worried about is members of the public picking them up and taking them home as souvenirs . ’ |
| 11 | Nara and the twins were endlessly fascinated with the little , blind , half-bald creatures , and spent hours picking them up and playing with them . |
| 12 | " Oh , they love it when the kids are babies , dressing them up and looking after them , everybody loves babies , but it 's different when they get older , " they say . |
| 13 | Maybe Jack was rounding them up and moving them to another field . |
| 14 | A report circulated in the spring of 1939 admitted that the camps ‘ became slave markets where people with the best intentions in the world went to help one child , yet unconsciously did harm to many by looking them over and rejecting them ’ . |
| 15 | Like using old '70s art covers and guitar legends , turning them around and putting them on Number One albums , ha ha ! |
| 16 | ‘ It was cutting bones and turning them around and cutting ligaments . |
| 17 | The herbicide Agent Orange and all that it represents , from carpet bombing of rainforests to bulldozing them down and removing their topsoil , managed to demolish a fifth of Vietnam 's tree cover and to replace it , in great stretches , with a moonscape of bomb craters . |
| 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 | Then you had a a squad of men pulling them out and cutting them . |
| 20 | We discovered that by making permanent changes to their usual diets individuals felt that their general health improved dramatically ; they felt far better mentally , and they managed to lose those ugly pounds of flesh that had been slowing them down and stubbing their ego . |
| 21 | If job security is what you seek , then besides setting your agreement down in black and white , you should strive to be well organised , willing to discuss your grievances rather than bottling them up and prepared to react flexibly if circumstances change . |
| 22 | But felling trees , chopping them up and hauling them back to the laboratory for tests costs time and cash . |
| 23 | Instead , a store detective will look for suspicious actions and then try to put off the would-be thief by staring them out and making their presence felt . |
| 24 | That was only pub that was allowed to keep open till This is af this is after the er licence come in like closing them up and opening in afternoon . |
| 25 | This consisted mainly of shutting them in and leaving them be — go in sometime after midnight perhaps , switch off the TV , unplug the Commodore , pick up the comic books and rearrange the covers , but that was about it . |
| 26 | Well , I 'm going to start on , I 've cut up some so I 'm going to finish cutting them up and lay them out . |
| 27 | One takes twenty minutes which is Dr is taking them round and telling them about the Hall . |
| 28 | It is a bit like using spectacles to see with , and taking them off and looking at them . |
| 29 | I mean that does n't help as well , I know Sainsbury 's or Tesco 's and you have to keep taking them off and putting them on |
| 30 | And also , if she came in when I had the triplets it meant that erm you know , she was sitting talking to me when I wanted to be playing with them and taking them out and getting on with doing things with them . |