Example sentences of "them and [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Designing the interactivity means programming the number and location of the ‘ crossroads ’ in the database , establishing the decisions a user can take at each of them and determining the consequences of those decisions . |
| 2 | Keeping records of personnel , updating them and reporting on this information is the foundation of any personnel system . |
| 3 | By 1960 all Soviet technicians had been recalled , taking their blueprints with them and leaving the factories to be finished as best they could be . |
| 4 | How different they were ( we who worked in primary schools thought ) from the secondary schools described in the Newsom Report of 1963 in which ‘ children sat through lessons with information and exhortation washing over them and leaving little deposit ’ . |
| 5 | And it 's trying to pull the planets in , Lee , but other stars are pulling them and stopping them falling into the sun . |
| 6 | The structure of open agreements between district health authorities and hospitals gives us , for the first time , a clear way of setting standards , monitoring them and enforcing them . |
| 7 | All three features are designed to convey that Henry is not just looking at the roots but reflecting on them and struggling to think what it is they bring to mind . |
| 8 | It would also appear that in some areas the rougher element ganged up against Boy Scout troops in the early years of the movement , throwing stones at them and mocking their uniform of floppy hats and silly short pants . |
| 9 | The next night Geoffrey Appleyard went in alone , and after scouting round for the two agents he was to meet , he abandoned all caution , running up and down the beach shouting for them and waving his torch . |
| 10 | Sun slanted through the canopy of vines straight into her eyes , forcing her to close them and precipitating what she 'd feared . |
| 11 | We worked alongside the people by day , observed and committed to memory what went on , recorded these observations after work , later analysing them and writing a report . |
| 12 | The Spirit who inspired their writing is perfectly well capable of taking some part of them and writing it on our hearts so that it becomes an inescapable pointer to a particular course of action . |
| 13 | 4 Discuss with your partner how the two stories have changed between telling them and writing them down . |
| 14 | 4 Discuss with your partner how the two stories have changed between telling them and writing them down . |
| 15 | Poems order experience and share it ; understanding them and writing them involves an act of creativity , and in both activities there is a kind of joy involved when the order of words , or insight into the effect of that order , corresponds with the way things are . |
| 16 | The giants had taken Tara for their own and when Tealtaoich and the others had fled to the Forest Court , Nuadu had gone with them , neither quite one of them nor quite not one of them , but feeling a cautious kinship with them and discovering , with cynical amusement , that they were looking to him to lead them back . |
| 17 | The Hearthwares and Myrcans were greeted with friendliness and something like relief by the people they came upon — merchants in covered carts , farmers with flocks and herds , women bent under loads of firewood or water , children trailing behind them and eyeing the armoured figures on the big horses in wonder . |
| 18 | In my letter applying to the BBC I had said that I would also like to telephone several undertakers for quotes , stating my exact requirements and then taking the lowest , getting back to them and seeing if they could be beaten down . |
| 19 | Therefore it was natural that the ploughing should be done in one extended visit to the field : it was convenient that this should fall in the forepart of the day while the afternoon was spent , by the oxen in resting , and by their driver and ploughman in feeding them and seeing to their wants . |
| 20 | It is in weighing these up one against another — in balancing them and seeing them altogether cumulatively — that these criteria may become effective . |
| 21 | Of looking at them and trying to do a bit of s sorting out . |
| 22 | So she stayed in her parents ' home during the winter , helping to look after the children , making clothes for them and earning a little money whenever she could . |
| 23 | Driving Me Crazy mercilessly records the squalls , the vibrant performances and the inertia of the production team , who spend most of their time solemnly discussing what black music means to them and jockeying for pole position . |
| 24 | Driving Me Crazy mercilessly records the squalls , the vibrant performances and the inertia of the production team , who spend most of their time solemnly discussing what black music means to them and jockeying for pole position . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll leave the plans on the desk , ’ he said , rolling them and replacing them in the tube . |
| 27 | This woman with a red headscarf is looking at them and chatting to the man behind the stall . |
| 28 | With synthetic fabrics , it may be sufficient to just stop wearing them and using them as bedding for a while , to see if this is beneficial . |
| 29 | If this sort of technology was introduced into commercial-sized refrigeration plants , they could be turned off during peak times and then switched back on during low demand periods , saving money for the companies that own them and using less energy . |
| 30 | By memorizing short pauses and by relishing them and using them frequently in your do-it-yourself SAS training , your speech reading will improve and your aural memory-bank will be enriched . |