Example sentences of "[vb pp] [v-ing] [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most significant point here is that , whilst being ultimately sharp , quick-witted and astute , there is an alarmingly modest side to them as well ( maybe to be expected seeing as they 've barely put a distance between themselves and their former life in factory jobs and college courses ) . |
| 2 | These maxima were subject to the proviso that ‘ in such shires and countries that where it hath been and is now used to give less wages , that in those shires and countries they shall give and the taker of the wages be compelled according as they have been used to take . |
| 3 | For Pound may have been wrong in selecting Fascist Italy as the modern society than came nearest to satisfying his Ruskinian demands , and yet right in thinking that societies should be judged according as they met , or failed to meet , that standard . |
| 4 | Five hours later officers admitted the £9,000 Bedford Astra had gone missing before they had checked it for fingerprints . |
| 5 | Why is it that bogus applicants , and even genuine asylum seekers , are given housing when they claim to have no alternative accommodation ? |
| 6 | Sinqe , who holds his country 's national record of 2hr 8min 4sec , was due to run his first marathon outside the republic in the NutraSweet-sponsored event on 18 April but London organisers were left fuming when they discovered he had run a marathon in Japan a fortnight ago in defiance of his contract which stipulated that he should not run a competitive marathon within 90 days of the big race . |
| 7 | It was late by the time we had finished chatting and they cycled off to find somewhere to pitch their tent . |
| 8 | It is much easier for Amnesty to help members to do more specialised campaigning if they belong to a group — in particular , we have systems for providing group members with training , and for getting feedback from them — but there may be new types of groups we could develop , and even ways of offering more personalised approaches to campaigning to individual members . |
| 9 | But , apart from the sound of their own slightly laboured breathing as they toiled steadily uphill , the chattering of birds and the rustlings of small animals in the undergrowth were the only sounds they heard for the rest of the day . |