Example sentences of "[v-ing] them [conj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes the hens would start eating them and break the eggs oh what a mess . |
| 2 | The Girls were so attractive that his relations were courting them and marrying the most beautiful ones behind his back . |
| 3 | Mr Smith said : ‘ It is more than anything a question of contacting them and getting the forms out . |
| 4 | There are so many paths and old miners ' tracks around this area of Swaledale that you could spend years walking them and exploring the old workings and still not cover them all . |
| 5 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 6 | A lot of them are concerned and confused with the many different types of rose , so we will begin by describing them and explaining the meaning of many of the names you will come across — that will help you choose wisely , and without regretful afterthoughts . |
| 7 | His son , Ernest , wrote Stockmar 's Memoirs , describing them as lifting the veil ‘ but a little ’ . |
| 8 | In the spring of 1648 , when the Second Civil War broke out in accordance with this plan , many of the principal officers of the Parliamentary Army , furious at the King 's conduct in deceiving them and plunging the nation into an unnecessary war , solemnly undertook ‘ to call Charles Stuart , that man of blood , to an account for that blood he had shed , and mischief he had done to his utmost , against the Lord 's cause and people in these poor nations ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , you 'd have had the lot pilfered if I had n't been guarding them and suffered the most ghastly discomfort in the process . |
| 10 | The people who care for these snakes are very clever at milking them and getting the venom from the animal safely , and this is then purified biochemically and erm sent to us as a dried product in a stoppered bottle and the snakes are a thousand miles away , I 'm glad to say . |
| 11 | That figure is now just over 6,000 , and its not difficult to agree with Julia when she quietly describes the job of reading them and selecting the very best as ‘ daunting ’ . |
| 12 | I now look forward to the summer when I will while away many happy hours watching them and admiring the plants . |
| 13 | the contract expressly gives the customer the right to return any goods within seven days of receiving them and to cancel the agreemnent . |
| 14 | For example , retributive punishment might help inculcate law-abiding ideology in the populace by telling them that breaking the law is wicked and deserves punishment . |
| 15 | A huge wave swamped the canoes , overturning them and tipping the hunters into the foaming water . |
| 16 | A leading advertisement writer describes how she was going round a factory making china when she saw an employee taking plates from the production line , smashing them and throwing the pieces into a box . |