Example sentences of "them [verb] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think one of them has been trying to talk to me . ’ |
| 2 | The validity of these tests , however , has been assessed by few and unconfirmed studies , in patients who were not taking NSAID , and direct comparison between them has been lacking . |
| 3 | In terms of bed numbers it has substantially more relative to population than either London or New York , but like them has been closing short stay beds steadily since the mid-1970s . |
| 4 | The studios were rocking from an earthquake none of them believed was happening . |
| 5 | One of them had been watching him recently . |
| 6 | Thirty of them had been drinking so heavily that they forgot to get off at Peterborough to catch their connection to Harwich . |
| 7 | I was amazed to realise that some of them had been using their machines for five years and had no idea of the machines capabilities because all the instructions are written in either English , Spanish or Japanese ; nothing in Thai . |
| 8 | She looked back over her three years at college , now slowly approaching their close , and she thought of all the people she had known and all the friends she had made , and it seemed to her that most of them had been aiming with varying degrees of accuracy at just such an effect . |
| 9 | The 17 defendants were convicted on the strength of two groups of evidence : their confessions made in police custody , and forensic tests which found that various of them had been handling explosives shortly before the bombings . |
| 10 | Which of them had been reading The Book of Poisons ? |
| 11 | The other women often talked about young men they knew , and one of them had been taking a young man back to her flat during the evenings . |
| 12 | Four of them had been taking non-steroidal anti inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDs ) for a mean period of 10 ( range one to 18 ) months for arthritis and remarkably one of these had DU in spite of having pentagastrin fast achlorhydria due to pernicious anaemia . |
| 13 | Some of them had been mopping the floor ; some washing plates and cups ; some just running , not carrying anything , but speedy and purposeful all the same . |
| 14 | It was n't intended ; none of them had been paying any attention to the world round about : they 'd all but walked into one another . |
| 15 | Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject . |
| 16 | While the ramparts had been melting , the jungle beyond them had been growing steadily thicker . |
| 17 | Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn . |
| 18 | Love admits it will be very difficult for the players , who will be taking on opposition coming to the end of their season and in weather which will be completely different to what most of them have been experiencing over the past six months , though not to captain Bruce Russell , Iain Philip and Alastair Storie , who have spent the winter playing overseas . |
| 19 | — their terror of having a foot chopped off for stealing ( some of them have been stealing ) |
| 20 | Getting prisoners to realise there are people worse off than themselves , is the main idea behind a 3-day event at Stoke Mandeville. 30 of them have been helping mentally handicapped people of all ages simply to enjoy themselves . |
| 21 | Some of them have been getting strong criticism lately . |
| 22 | Nobody 's job is secure , but some jobs are more secure , have always been more secure than others and if you 've been , as some of them have been relying on overtime |