Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police need little reminding that they have to find a very brutal and sick man fast . |
| 2 | So I carried on walking and they start going through this bleeding wood , well they had me climbing over three fence things , all like them metal you know like them metal fences at wood ? |
| 3 | It interknits with that world of chances and mischances , improbable or absurd or grotesque or just neutrally happening as they do happen , which we meet everywhere in later Dostoevsky and specially in The Possessed . |
| 4 | I suggest that the usual channels have a strong interest in seeing that they control this important piece of procedure . |
| 5 | ‘ They are obviously regretting that they let her start the paper round , but there seemed to be no reason for them to object to it . ’ |
| 6 | We also need Government investment to back up the youth services , teachers and parents so that the next generation of youngsters does not include a minority whose self-discipline , self-esteem and respect for their own future are so lacking that they get kicks from racing stolen cars or lobbing bottles at the police . |
| 7 | The persons solicited in this way reacted with annoyance , perhaps indicating that they supposed that they were being solicited for the purposes of prostitution ( the magistrates having found as a fact that ‘ it would be impossible for anyone so touted or solicited without enquiry to appreciate the purpose of the solicitation , and that a solicitation for this purpose in the circumstances of time and place was such an affront that it might provoke a breach of the peace . ’ ) |
| 8 | Their calls are also very intricate , and the sounds of some of them , the young , sexually mature humpback males , are so haunting that they have become a best-selling record . |
| 9 | ( also known as education social worker ) Education welfare officers liaise with Social Services Departments and are responsible for the general well-being of school children , not only ensuring that they attend school regularly but also dealing with grants , allowances and services which they may need to be able to attend ( e.g. clothing , transport , free school meals ) . |
| 10 | No my friend 's in the trade I said they 're basically working but they 've got a halt on somewhere because they 've come back you 'll have to sort out the you 've got but er they 're only one ten |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What I 'd like to do is to help them to see that they do n't need to give up on the computer , that they can actually be the master of it , although of course I do n't I 'm not suggesting that they become programmers — that would be to abdicate their function in another way — but certainly they can understand it , and I think of course it keeps coming back to this issue over and over again , an issue about education . |
| 13 | Surely you 're not suggesting that they had anything to do with his death ? ’ |
| 14 | And second , how dare she imply that those hundreds of thousands of people with a spinal injury throughout the world are not walking because they lack the will to do so . |
| 15 | There are other good vignettes of people telephoning each other to say goodbye , huddling in corner stores and generally acting as they do in scary SF movies . |
| 16 | They needed no second bidding but rode as fast as they could , not pausing until they thundered through the half-open gate of Godstowe Priory , putting the porter into such serious agitation he appeared almost sober for once . |
| 17 | this idea pettiness you know , but you 're just waiting while they get their load done , to come up with some suggestion . |
| 18 | With his head turned his face was close to hers and he would stare right at her , maybe thinking nobody could see him in the dimness , or maybe not caring if they did . |
| 19 | an awful lot from teachers , you know , we 're just expecting that they know everything about sex education . |
| 20 | Defence lawyer Mr Gerry Trainor pleaded that others living there were not objecting and they did not intend any trouble . |
| 21 | Yes I think that probably this had been er very wise in this er in so I 'm not saying that they 've helped us or anything but they 've kept the middle of the line and erm In the beginning when things were beginning to whatsit er the inspector sent two policemen down here and asked me would I ask the lads not to do any damage to property and all this , and that and said , Right there 's a lodge tonight and I shall ask them I shall tell them to do that . |
| 22 | But they 're not saying if they have Bosnia in mind . |
| 23 | They probably talked to him already , they 'd have talked to everybody in that block , just asking if they saw or heard anything . |
| 24 | A tiny patch of blue punctured the dark blanket of sky , and the sun peeped out from a corner of the horizon as they headed down the beach , not stopping until they reached a small rocky promontory shaded by bushy casuarinas . |
| 25 | " Old Man River , " they sang , " he must know something … " they processed , always singing , not knowing that they sang a dirge . |
| 26 | Many women left not knowing if they had been attacked or simply been through a formal examination . ’ |
| 27 | It must be an awful strain for the parents not knowing if they have the right baby . ’ |
| 28 | Most women grow up absolutely torn and still somehow knowing that they have to make some kind of choice . |
| 29 | But they 're not fighting because they 've nobody no , national officials to fight for them . |
| 30 | Dusk was just falling as they turned into the parking area down by the river . |