Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [conj] they " in BNC.

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1 Well , you know , it you see , time were , I do n't know I suppose , I do n't know but I never seemed to be afraid and I used to have my or something round my waist , a belt with the keys hanging on and they supplied me with a as well , one of these , I do n't know what they 're made of they were n't all that heavy but still they were heavy enough to keep on .
2 It had been lashing down when they 'd gone in .
3 Whether that will upset the balance at all because Lewis was a very important for them he kept stepping in when they wanted to change play .
4 The wind was easterly so they would be returning over our heads onto the main runway , and as the aircraft started to come back they seemed to be only a few feet above us , touching down after they crossed the far hedge .
5 Important period for Forest to keep pressing on if they 're gon na have to make another change .
6 And er there was the er the kids from his erm he w he was going to school when he died and er there was children from his class walking along cos they we they used to walk to the cemeteries then and carrying a wreath of er flowers , I remember it as if it was yesterday .
7 Miracle Squares I think there 's a lot of thought gone into it you know , it ca n't be easy to re er to , to just dream up a game erm , I like the one about you go to the last supper and the waiter spills soup on your trousers , the waiter , ha tell you else about the Marx brothers an'all , the waiter is er the king of Snowdonia and it 's Groucho Marx , the , they 've got this massive hall , and er these big steps leading down into it you know and as , as they 're coming in there 's somebody at the top and Ann says who 's , who 's walking in and they walk down the stairs you know and Mr and Mrs and the king has you know and he says oh the king Snowdonia is about to arrive , he should be here any minute now , he should be here dead on this time you know , he gets these big fanfare trumpets up da , da , da , da , the king of Snowdonia , and there 's nothing and all of a sudden it flashes to Groucho Marx and then he 's in bed with
8 Erm well just go to the final question now I mean Erm when th now the flats are emptying out and they 're coming down , erm and what what do you see is gon na be the problem ?
9 you often get down the Tornados coming , whizzing down , below you , you know you 're looking down as they come past
10 Beginners often make the mistake of looking down when they are moving from one position to another , thus breaking the cardinal first rule of combat , which is never to take your eyes off your opponent .
11 The superb choruses , picking up as they do lines from various Crabbe poems , inherit the point-of-view of his editorial stoicism .
12 The outlook for Morton Newspapers , the province 's biggest weekly newspaper chain seems to be looking up and they are optimistic about the future .
13 Erm we have the graduates who we 're training up and they 're not very good and drop us in the mire sometimes .
14 and like the thing is obviously like the first realise there on a and they try to stop it , why are you stopping for , remember you are in the British army , if you disobey orders you 'll get a court marshall really started laying onto them , and like they 've started again and like the first bloke obviously got to the fucking water , cos he 's stopped again , one man one sides shouting out and round the other side shouting out and they have they 've all gone in , they must of thought fuck it and they 've all just fucking marched into the sea , and we marched them in , tent was only about that much above water , and we 've lasted thought , this is the thing that got me , he , he shouted at him , cos we , we , we managed to get them and that , he said right , right , go in , go in and tell them to come out , what , I said what , can you just pop in and tell them to come out , I said over here sarge , he said you disobey an order
15 In addition , cyclists , runners and skiers have now adopted close fitting garments like our jodhpurs for ease of movement , but they do n't top them off with ties or traditional jackets to go flapping around while they have other things to concentrate on .
16 ‘ We 've heard them rustling about but they 're staying out of our way .
17 ‘ Came here once , ’ commented Lord Beddington morosely , looking round while they were waiting for cabs to return .
18 The staff knew what was going on but they turned a blind eye .
19 I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open
20 Although the police do not need to be certain that a person has heard or seen what is going on before they can call for quiet under the Act ( since it is sufficient that they have reasonable cause to believe that an offence is being committed ) , they would afterwards have to conduct house to house enquiries before they could truthfully say that the conduct was actually heard or seen by a bystander .
21 People coming from outside town do n't know what 's going on so they 're just getting booked .
22 The Church knew what was going on and they could easily have stopped it .
23 and they said it was going on and they were pleased with it
24 You are kind of dozing but you are not asleep because you ca n't get to sleep because there is a needle sticking in your arm and you have got a drip going on and they come and change the bag and you are constantly feeling sick .
25 Anyone who 's vigilant knows what 's going on and they 're aware of what 's happening , so again it , it shows that we must do something as they said on that motorway , the thing to do when you feel yourself going into drow drowsiness is , is stop the car perhaps , get out and have a walk round , do something , I know I , er in the past when I 've felt myself going off to sleep in those situations , I 've been pinching myself and , and really making yourself do something rather than just sitting there doing nothing , cos that 's the way we just go off and get lowered into sleep and our lives are involved in this , we 've read and heard about people that have gone to sleep on motorways have n't they ?
26 It can help some to keep track of what is going on if they have others to help them .
27 I have as much right to know what 's going on as they do .
28 " Jack " , in Dublin , had been to bars and meeting-places , had made inquiries , had met this man and then that , reporting back to Bert and Jasper that things were going on as they should .
29 They came flooding in because they were deliberately organised by welfare rights groups in those areas .
30 Y'know you a you 're going along and they 'll say group , and you write therapy or something y'know and you 've done it and you think whoops and you just hope , and the worst thing is when they say Smith and Jones and you put seventy nine in and you think , shit and y'know they get the thing slightly wrong Draw up a revision plan , pick out the topics that you 're going to revise Any problems , bring them along to the seminar .
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