Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine the situation where employers are now obliged to notify employee members of that rise in contribution and also reminding them that they have the right to withdraw their authorization . |
| 2 | When they do , they turn on the person and accuse him or her of being old-fashioned and not accepting them as they are . |
| 3 | erm those of you who had mothers who were young in the twenties will probably recall seeing them because they were rather tubular almost like a rubber tube , with small holes punched in for circulation . |
| 4 | A little crowd was encouraging them while they performed what somebody told me was a tango . |
| 5 | Not only are they going to find themselves deliberately and actively squeezed from above and below by the very organisation , the ATP Tour , which is supposed to be protecting and encouraging them but they still have to compete against exhibition events , with open cheque books , for a handful of top players . |
| 6 | Sometimes these sophisticated nine-year-olds really do seem to have the bug but I still feel a bit uncomfortable encouraging them because they are so young . |
| 7 | These users would be responsible for checking any SSRs generated for their project and only submitting them once they were satisfied that they correctly and adequately reported the status of an area of software . |
| 8 | The computer industry has only recently realised that , on the whole , ordinary people do not like computers and are only comfortable using them when they do not know they are doing so . |
| 9 | All children should be supported in valuing their own dialects and in using them where they are appropriate to context and purpose , but they should also be able to use Standard English when it is necessary and helpful to do so in speaking as well as writing . |
| 10 | At the same time , he took great trouble over the team 's welfare , even to the extent of helping them when they signed their contracts . |
| 11 | The doctor says we 're seeing people initially when they 're quite well and we follow them through , helping them when they 're ill and often helping them with their deaths , that 's quite important . |
| 12 | They have no difficulty in imagining , for example , that there are thousands of people at large in Britain who are in the habit of aborting babies specifically for the purpose of eating them and they argue , ingeniously , that the lack of forensic evidence of satanic abuse can itself be read as proof of the existence of Satan . |
| 13 | Slave masters strode through the crowds of men and women whipping them if they slowed down or showed any interest in the travellers . |
| 14 | Yeah , well we will do once we 'll get them to the height we want we 'll start trimming them and they 'll bush out a bit more , that 's not bad they 're about four , four or five foot now are n't they ? |
| 15 | For the international people there are civil laws , by which they companies have to provide what we call indemnities for the person who works and these indemnities go according to certain formulas , which is known by everybody , and it 's in a way protecting them after they leave . |
| 16 | I lived on top of the sea , so the task of transporting the various fish home , and returning them if they were not suitable , posed few problems . |
| 17 | He had sublet part of his house to a married daughter , and would also play with his grandchildren , ‘ amusing them when they come back from school ’ . |
| 18 | Can a manager feel happy making strategic decisions simply on the basis of what his lieutenants tell him , without satisfying himself that they are not simply spouting the IBM conventional wisdom that has got the company into the mess it is in today ? |
| 19 | So I try to put the younger ones off acquiring one until they 're older . |
| 20 | They swam then , and Damian made love to her in the hot sea , stripping her as they floated together , wrapping their bodies around each other in unreasoning desire , kissing saltily as their hoarse cries filled the air and they nearly sank like stones as Damian went rigid with pleasure , his fingers biting into her nude body in the warm water . |
| 21 | Trotter was at the door , opening it before they reached the porch . |
| 22 | No they 're they 're much better at keeping it and they seem to manage quite well too . |
| 23 | ‘ They only succeeded in poinding us because they tricked their way into the house . |
| 24 | I dare to go further : some of the most gifted and earnest among my contemporaries — I think of Edgar Dowers in the United States and Geoffrey Hill in the United Kingdom ( though I except Hill 's wonderful Mercian Hymns ) — fall short of pleasing me as they might , because they seem not to have followed this rule of thumb , and their language is habitually for my taste a shade , or several shades , too grandiloquent or ‘ literary ’ . |
| 25 | Letters are now being sent to their families in the United States , warning them that they face arrest upon return home . |
| 26 | In response to the CNAA 's complaint the DES agreed to circularize colleges warning them that they had to be prepared to satisfy CNAA requirements , and indicating that the DES would not be prepared to entertain new courses in excess of likely demand . |
| 27 | And all you 're doing is warning them that they will , the things will be there and we 'll make sure that if a emergency vehicle comes along erm |
| 28 | Re-silvering is a specialist art , and since mirrors are cheap enough to replace if they get damaged , few people will want the fuss and expense of mending them unless they are very large . |
| 29 | If children fear that their parents will stop loving them when they are naughty , they soon absorb the idea of what they must do . |
| 30 | He did not feel so hostile to them as he did to the ravens , and merely ignored them , overflying them if they came too close but not behaving more aggressively than that . |