Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] they [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes , it was , is it that , that was why we were looking for them to pick them out ? |
| 2 | Most were unhappy — to the outside world they were just thought of as ‘ cabbages ’ , without thoughts or feelings , because that was how the people looking after them thought they were . |
| 3 | The police have sor , have got a copy of our emergency evacuation procedures , at the moment we 're waiting for them to return it to us . |
| 4 | But there I am , waiting for them to give me the okay . ’ |
| 5 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've put through a call to London and I 'm waiting for them to ring me up . |
| 7 | But , in meantime while I were waiting for them to ring me I were that mad ! |
| 8 | Tight-lipped , she drove in silence , keeping her eyes firmly on the road , but as they sat at red traffic-lights waiting for them to change she could n't keep silent any longer . |
| 9 | After that it 's a question of waiting for them to contact you again . |
| 10 | No , I 've been waiting for them to get them cards in I ordered a couple of those cards with the lights at the top for Kieran to take home |
| 11 | The majority of women do undertake paid work in their later middle life , and it can be just as wrenching for them to leave it as for men . |
| 12 | what I would like and I 'm sure it happens with the previous C P O er and I have been notified by telephone and I keep saying to them let me know , but I would like probably a memo from each C P O to say that there is a meeting on this particular night . |
| 13 | The plan for the evacuation to be in groups of three had to be abandoned , as it would have taken 40 hours to get all of the men out and the gas collecting near them made it imperative that the exercise be completed in much less time . |
| 14 | Now she had pulled up outside the village shop and was yelling to them to bring her out an ice-cream . |
| 15 | She was already within arm 's length , only the door standing between them to prevent him from reaching her , and she clearly suspected nothing because she was moving in and as her hand passed close to the glass , he could see it in vivid pastel detail . |
| 16 | I think talking to them helped me a lot to get over those first few months . |
| 17 | The imbalance of feeling between them shocked me . |
| 18 | She was scarlet with confusion , the breathtaking desire mounting between them making it difficult to cling to her train of thought . |