Example sentences of "them [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the work is covered by Building Regulations , you will need to inform your local authority ; they may well tell you the type of trench necessary , the ways the drains have to be laid in them depending on local soil conditions and the material to be used for the drains . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought I might find them laughing at poor Daddy , ’ Rose said , allowing her own shock and fear to ease out in the nervous laughter , but Maggie 's face remained pale and serious . |
| 3 | He seemed to be split into three clear elements , all of them aching with good intent and a longing to sound some clarion call not to hold back . |
| 4 | As he pushes through the swing doors and walks down the corridor towards his office , he can hear them spluttering with stifled laughter . |
| 5 | When we go into schools where computers are actually in use , we find them serving as expensive page turners , mimicking programmed instruction texts . |
| 6 | At the end of 1988 there were 56 carers , 21 of them specializing in short-term care ; a total of 87 people had been placed in the scheme during that year . |
| 7 | He wondered if Rufus had children and if so did he worry about them coming to terrible harm the way Adam worried ? |
| 8 | Around 20,000 of the cars are thought to survive today , many of them suffering from serious rust problems . |
| 9 | Around 20,000 of the cars are thought to survive today , many of them suffering from serious rust problems . |
| 10 | As a former psychiatric nurse , now a general nurse , I see many psychiatric patients , most of them heterosexual , most of them suffering from low self-esteem . |
| 11 | The curator-in-chief in charge of sculpture , Jean-René Gaborit , asked that the courtyards of the Richelieu wing be covered so that his department might at last have the space to show pieces from stores and also sculptures brought in from the Tuileries gardens and elsewhere , many of them suffering from atmospheric pollution . |
| 12 | After all , I 'd only just stopped doing my paper-round and I heard them talking about headlong stuff I never knew about before : abortions , heroin , Sylvia Plath , prostitution . |
| 13 | He 'd done so once , and seen them writhing in silent laughter . |
| 14 | You left them thrashin' at thin air . |