Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] these " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie kept catching her eye with an expression of knowing amusement , but at the same time she obviously hated having these men stomping through her every possession and destroying any remaining magic in her secret chamber . |
| 2 | The key to direct analysis and systematic comparison of the very large amount of data collected using these methods is the concept of the linguistic variable . |
| 3 | Consequently when commercial artists and manufacturers began using these photographs as reference for comic strips , book illustrations , box tops etc. they assumed the reel to be a speaker grill . |
| 4 | He began writing these experiences for a film and when he produced his manuscript it was partly autobiographical . |
| 5 | We enjoyed having these fine Canadian ambassadors with us at Craigforth . |
| 6 | Taken together , Carter 's handling of economic affairs , the hostage crisis and foreign policy in general combined to give him ‘ the lowest job approval ratings of any president since Gallup began taking these measurements in the 1940s ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ As I finished selecting these 200-odd titles which reflect the continuing excellence of writing for children , a document was leaked which made it clear that the authorities which are controlling the education of the next generation had , at a stroke , obliterated the ‘ golden age ’ of children 's literature — at least as far as reading in schools is concerned . |
| 8 | Glasgow is no exception , except , unlike other cities , once they started building these concrete jungles they forgot to stop . |
| 9 | Tracy and Ian Ballard started keeping these fierce creatures three years ago . |
| 10 | I kept seeing these double helices like two snakes winding up an invisible tree , only smaller . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , ‘ I kept getting these phone-calls . ’ |
| 12 | It sounded okay but we kept getting these fumes . |
| 13 | Well twenty years ago I was on programmes like this , saying that doctors who said that Valium and the other tranquillizers were perfectly safe were talking rubbish and that there was every possibility that there would be problems found in the future , if we kept prescribing these drugs for vast numbers of people . |
| 14 | Well I used to share a , share this flat with my mate and erm you know , she got a bit out of hand , she kept bringing all these people home and she kept having these parties and it was really difficult for me to study cos I used to go well I still try to go to college , but erm you know , it was really hard for me to study and made my life really , really difficult ! |
| 15 | I kept hearing these small explosions and I wondered what could possibly be the cause . |
| 16 | Yet he — I — seemed pleased enough , and kept dribbling these words across the page . |
| 17 | This policy has brought it £24m of borrowings , most at variable rates , and Mr Linacre said replacing these borrowings with convertible preference shares , yielding 7 per cent , would save the group about £1.8m a year . |