Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could hear them yawning and coughing as they moved around . |
| 2 | The dummy took three weeks ' work by a team of volunteers , mostly part-time and helping when they could . |
| 3 | The government issued statements , before and after the April arrests , criticizing the activities of DP members in northern Uganda and suggesting that they were helping to perpetuate the insurgency , although no evidence of this was presented . |
| 4 | The verdicts are implicitly defining what is appropriate behaviour for women and suggesting that they do not have much of a safeguard if they stray into areas regarded as ‘ male territory ’ whether it be a barracks room or a street late at night . |
| 5 | In limiting the concept of social representations to these sons of phenomena , Moscovici is denying that social representations can be found in all societies , and suggesting that they only emerge under certain social conditions . |
| 6 | Stewart Mason , Chairman of the NCDAD , was at the same time proposing to write to polytechnics and colleges with DipAD courses , in advance of a meeting of the London Colleges Alliance the following month , to raise the possibility of the two bodies ‘ getting closer together ’ , and suggesting that they would ‘ probably amalgamate ’ . |
| 7 | As they rode along the winding estate road , the handful of workers not invited to the service lined the route , clapping and cheering as they arrived . |
| 8 | People travelled in groups , dancing and singing as they went . |
| 9 | Validation of the suffering individual , treating him or her with kindness , professional respect and dignity , being open and honest , separating the awareness of the disease from the understanding of the suffering human being , following the distorted reasoning and disturbed actions and accepting that they appeared to the sufferer to be most appropriate at the time they were committed . |
| 10 | He was at times ordered to aid and supervise the royal huntsmen by leading them to those parts of the forest where the game was most plentiful , o supplying them with trained hounds , and seeing that they did not drive the deer out of the forest or continue their hunting longer than their instructions warranted . |
| 11 | — helping to get clients to bed , and seeing that they were safe for the night . |
| 12 | which I asked if they would stay , but they altogether refused , and seeing that they refused I did not hinder them to go , for I will press no man . |
| 13 | Tealtaoich stood quite still , regarding the waiting Trees and seeing that they were listening and apparently politely prepared to hear anything he had to say . |
| 14 | I 'm gon na write and say and seeing that they 're going to reorganize the way they 're gon na collect the community charge , you know , they 're gon na do it on houses |
| 15 | He started by going to unofficial advisers and seeing whether they agreed with his official adviser . |
| 16 | In my letter applying to the BBC I had said that I would also like to telephone several undertakers for quotes , stating my exact requirements and then taking the lowest , getting back to them and seeing if they could be beaten down . |
| 17 | We can test the usefulness of wide-ranging theories of juvenile delinquency by reading books like The Jack-Roller and seeing if they bear any resemblance to the theory . |
| 18 | on and that way you can find out who the candidates are , and once we know who the candidates are we can start going out and seeing if they have public meetings or whatever . |
| 19 | This involved taking apart any statements made by known offenders and seeing if they could pinpoint a flaw somewhere along the line . |
| 20 | Mrs Hunt , who lives next door to Mrs Whalen 's home , said : ‘ People were all running and phoning because they took that long in coming . |
| 21 | I remember waking up and reaching down automatically and realising that they had shaved me which was my biggest shock . |
| 22 | Spittals made great play of tapping the microphones and checking that they worked before he introduced the superintendent . |
| 23 | So she rode slowly through them , mostly holding her breath and praying that they would n't charge at her . |
| 24 | A trip chain is a sequence of trips beginning when a resident leaves home , and ending when they next return home . |
| 25 | You know , the one where I retreat into a broad North Country accent which makes Su Pollard sound like a stockbroker , and start straining sycophantically and laughing before they 've finished the punchline … |
| 26 | There 's lots of talking and laughing when they do that — they look like they 've had a real good time . |
| 27 | They 're talking and laughing as they work . |
| 28 | A woman was singing popular songs , and the holidaymakers were drinking and laughing as they ate their steaks . |
| 29 | Mrs Healy said that she heard the girls were running and laughing like they had done in Knockglen and they were hit by a car . |
| 30 | ‘ You 'd think people would have heed , but no heed , never any heed , no care for anybody else , ’ he complained as he drove ; but before the bridge he startled them by driving the car into the space in front of McCabe 's and announcing that they would walk the rest of the way through the village . |