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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ ) |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ( 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | this idea pettiness you know , but you 're just waiting while they get their load done , to come up with some suggestion . |
| 11 | an awful lot from teachers , you know , we 're just expecting that they know everything about sex education . |
| 12 | They probably talked to him already , they 'd have talked to everybody in that block , just asking if they saw or heard anything . |
| 13 | Most women grow up absolutely torn and still somehow knowing that they have to make some kind of choice . |
| 14 | Dusk was just falling as they turned into the parking area down by the river . |
| 15 | Drivers were asked to give the risk rating immediately they heard the tone and it was emphasized that this rating should be one of what they were already feeling when they heard the tone rather than a subsequent assessment of the risk present . |
| 16 | So , he 's gon na go int insurance this morning , tell them that er bonnet 's still vibrating and they 've supposed to have done it twice and that , because of er ask them where he can take to have all these repair jobs done . |
| 17 | They were still laughing as they stepped down into the hold . |
| 18 | And the things is , they always laugh , they 're always laughing when they get on the train |
| 19 | He was still shouting as they walked past the barbed wire and the concrete blocks down to the waterline . |
| 20 | He was still grinning when they rode into the camp which had been built by the Moi in a bend of the slow-flowing river . |
| 21 | People are always complaining that they do not have enough work space/dumping space , but it may well be what they really need is better organized storage . |
| 22 | She was still seething when they got into his luxury car , hired , he told her , as he did n't keep one of his own here , his visits to Taipei being infrequent and usually brief . |
| 23 | If one could select those areas where there appears to be the largest proportion of sites which seem to have been affected , they are in Hampshire , Hertfordshire and north Kent , possibly indicating that they suffered the greatest disturbance . |
| 24 | He was ashamed of the way his father sat in his armchair staring at them without joining in the conversation , or even rudely reading as they talked . |
| 25 | They 're also supremely naive if they do n't think at some point in the future that MCA will hike out a similar compilation to the one Phonogram just have … that 's always assuming that they sort themselves out enough to have the required amount of hits . |
| 26 | ‘ I think everyone connected with the club can go home knowing that they have done their best . |
| 27 | Daylight was quickly fading as they walked up the street to the nurse 's house . |
| 28 | They were practically cheering as they raced across the scabby grass down to the mill . |
| 29 | For instance , those who have missed some training , through injury , illness or lethargy , are probably wondering whether they have done enough . |
| 30 | I HAVE no doubt that the vandals who defaced Bomber Harris 's statue are feeling pretty smug and probably thinking that they had made a point for Dresden . |