Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | And those people that take or get extra , either their body is not producing or they want an extra bit for something so they can run a hundred yards at er in an extra five minutes . |
| 2 | Cheat you 'd have to be cheating or they would n't |
| 3 | So she rode slowly through them , mostly holding her breath and praying that they would n't charge at her . |
| 4 | unalterable conviction in favour of the adoption for our Palace of Administration of the revived national style — a style so characteristic of our own age it is beginning to be called Victorian — we protest against being obliged to tolerate an effete Palladian or mongrel Renaissance architecture to please those who wish to claim the merit of a breadth of view and of artistic sympathy by denying that they have any prejudices on the subject , one way or the other . |
| 5 | Rollin is also severe on the sophistry of the late medieval Catholic Church in sanctioning the trial and often excommunication of countless creatures ( and the then , if feasible , hanging , flaying , burying alive , burning , or otherwise executing them ) whilst denying that they were free agents . |
| 6 | Minimising — accepting that there are problems but denying that they are of any great significance or that they necessarily have any connection with alcohol or drug use : " An alcoholic is someone who drinks more than I do . " |
| 7 | It is commonplace to find sufferers from alcoholism or drug addiction denying that they may themselves have food , nicotine or caffeine addictions or other compulsive behaviours and they may even deny that these other addictions are " real " addictions at all . |
| 8 | If all the cases that attract attention , because they are argued in important appellate courts before public scrutiny , are occasions on which judges are scrupulous in denying that they are serving the goal of protected expectations through their decisions , this can hardly do much to reinforce the public 's faith in that ideal . |
| 9 | And DM shoes — I do n't wear them , but a lot of my friends do , and you ca n't help noticing that they 're much better made than the shoes for girls , they last so much longer . |
| 10 | I could n't help noticing that they spent all their off-duty time racing down to London to what they called ‘ a sitting ’ , which tuned out to be another name for a seance . |
| 11 | They include , to give just a few examples , realizing that they have re-read the same page of a book three times without taking any of it in ; nearly getting knocked over crossing the road ; yelling ‘ Tie ! ’ at a pupil they do n't know ; noticing that they are both reading a magazine and watching the television while having their evening meal ; spotting the line of empty wine bottles that has accrued since the weekend . |
| 12 | She looked into the Doctor 's eyes , noticing that they glowed faintly , as if gathering and enhancing the available light . |
| 13 | noticing that they were n't they get , I suppose you get to know who has what and that they thought |
| 14 | PEKING — Having dumped two heirs apparent in under three years , Deng Xiaoping yesterday moved to buttress the shaky position of yet another set of hand-picked successors by announcing that they , not he , were now running China . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'd think people would have heed , but no heed , never any heed , no care for anybody else , ’ he complained as he drove ; but before the bridge he startled them by driving the car into the space in front of McCabe 's and announcing that they would walk the rest of the way through the village . |
| 16 | LOOP have ended two years of speculation by announcing that they have definitely split up . |
| 17 | There is obviously something wrong with a portrayal of children as totally lacking in reason until they leap out of bed on their tenth birthday announcing that they are now able to act on principle . |
| 18 | Mention the word ‘ contented ’ to many people , and they will think of a lazy diner , relaxing after a satisfying meal and announcing that they feel ‘ contented ’ ; others will recall the advertisements for evaporated milk , which ‘ came from contented cows ’ . |
| 19 | The Tokyo councillors from the LDP and the DSP defied their leaders , however , by announcing that they would continue to support Suzuki . |
| 20 | On Feb. 24 Klaus 's supporters , announcing that they would use the working name Civic Democratic Party , confirmed that they would follow the draft statute approved on Jan. 12-13 . |
| 21 | The leaders of the two Unionist parties , James Molyneaux ( of the Ulster Unionist Party ) and the Rev. Ian Paisley ( of the Democratic Unionist Party ) , effectively bypassed the ultimatum by announcing that they would fly to London on May 15 in the hope of meeting John Major , the UK Prime Minister . |
| 22 | He has refused , so far , to bring the Moroccan troops home , but has issued a pamphlet explaining that they are not under allied command , and will not attack Iraq . |
| 23 | Kahane gave him the one for the previous month , explaining that they had been out in the desert for six weeks . |
| 24 | He even embellished the story in a flood of fluent German , explaining that they had captured the British truck and had had a hard time of it at the front . |
| 25 | Many came to the door attempting to sell brushes , polish and so on , often carrying a card from the firm employing them explaining that they were disabled servicemen , I tremble to think that we could ever return to conditions like these . |
| 26 | It is tedious enough to have to append footnotes to certain records springing from the county game , explaining that they were arrived at by contrived cricket . |
| 27 | However as late as 1668 another Roman , Mario Savioni ( c. 1608–1685 ) brought out a book of five-part Madrigali morali e spirituali , explaining that they were to be sung each at the end of one of his previously published Concerti morali and adding that he had ‘ taken care to unite together the aria and the madrigal so as to conform with the character of the concertos ’ . |
| 28 | This can only be rationalised by accepting that whatever form ‘ gods ’ may take , whether they be solid images or heartfelt beliefs in the mysticism of such figures as the Virgin Mary , there can be no gainsaying that they are all , without exception , the product of the human endeavour to satisfy this deeply felt need to place its hard-won ideals into secure keeping . |
| 29 | He said all members of the Defence Forces signed an oath when they joined pledging that they would not associate with illegal organisations and this new vetting measure was an insult to those who risked their lives in the fight against terrorism . |
| 30 | Although groin guards are mandatory for all male competitors , referees have no way of checking that they are being worn . |