Example sentences of "or [v-ing] [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may also come to contract for the community health and care services their patients need , taking over from the social services departments or competing with them . |
| 2 | Many of the letters are flying in the air above their fellows , or sinking beneath them , and the orchestra of different characters is dominated by the solo x key . |
| 3 | The client for whom the firm is acting should be clearly identified and care should be taken to ensure that third parties do not form the impression that the firm is advising them or acting for them when this is not the case . |
| 4 | The client for whom the firm is acting should be clearly identified and care should be taken to ensure that third parties do not form the impression that the firm is advising them or acting for them when this is not the case . |
| 5 | The Americans helping them , or listening to them , include a mixture of officials and academics , particularly from Harvard . |
| 6 | If you do decide to offer items to the media , your organisation or client 's own products are by far the best giveaways , for they enable the producer , journalist or researcher to try them out for themselves before featuring or writing about them . |
| 7 | ( 1 ) attitudes towards the nature of representation , ( 2 ) behaviour within council groups , ( 3 ) preference for governing the city as a whole or looking after the interests of a ward , ( 1 ) preference for dealing with general policy issues or with individual problems , ( 5 ) preference for specialisms in one aspect of council work or generalizing over them all , and ( 6 ) attitudes towards the involvement of community organisations in the government of the city ( Newton 1976a:114 ) . |
| 8 | Try to recognize your needs , and try to spend time fulfilling them or asking for them . |
| 9 | Classes are fine when you 're teaching them or learning in them , very long and boring when you 're just an observer . |
| 10 | I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds . |
| 11 | But I do n't know quite why it is — maybe that 's one area where I do find there 's a bit of segregation , or maybe it 's just that people do n't have the time available , but it 's a different sector of the community who are working with the basic things like helping the old and the infirm more , just being able to give cups of coffee to people , or chatting to them , or visiting them , or whatever . |
| 12 | He had not noticed her daughter , either in the stream of girls pouring out of the school gates , or leaving after them . |
| 13 | At first Jaq had assumed the Navigator 's idea was to sustain , sympathetically , the pitch of the ship 's engines which sometimes skipped a beat , by chatting or humming to them . |
| 14 | Their expertise lies in enabling others and others to take advantage of arts facilities and helping them erm or working with them to produce the things that happen , for example all the erm posters which were up during last years festival erm were produced in conjunction with community arts which erm has erm er produced on Ditchfern Place , erm and earlier this morning I was thinking that up as I think other councillors did , that more serious of projects which community arts are now entering into er in Chesterton in particularly in the children erm I think councillors went to Dickfield women 's photograph project and it is things like that about giving people confidence to join arts in a way erm with which they might never otherwise have experienced and the community arts have taken just that . |
| 15 | The benefit of these reactions have to be understood in terms of life in the wild , where fighting off predators , or fleeing from them , may literally be a matter of life or death . |