Example sentences of "[v-ing] them [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Boniface wrote to other bishops , he had a way of invariably reminding them that Christian authority meant service . |
| 2 | Someone will reach for a tin of fish-paste only to be brought up short by another member of the party reminding them that fish-paste is unclean , while someone else may get as far as the checkout with a year 's supply of baked beans , when , across the crowded shelves of the supermarket , comes a voice reminding them of the danger they are facing . |
| 3 | It was pretty good seeing them all marching together , though . |
| 4 | I 'm sick of seeing them all ! |
| 5 | The next moment she was a shocked spectator , seeing them both as something in a theatre , perhaps ballet dancers pretending to be puppets . |
| 6 | Instead of er sanding them all down and all the paint and that , you can put them on the top . |
| 7 | So you 're really clobbering them both ways , are n't you ? |
| 8 | He struck his hands in his belt pulling back hi coat , allowing them all to see the butt of a revolver protruding from the inner pocket of his coat . |
| 9 | A related question is whether each processor should execute its own programme , or if instructions from one programme should be broadcast to all processors , thereby allowing them all to execute the same programme with different data . |
| 10 | If you are encouraging them all the time to consider propositions or arguments and then what evidence has been marshalled in support and the like , then you want them to come out like that … . |
| 11 | And one is encouraging them all of the time to be able to look at their own work as a group , as well as an individual , and make assessments of it themselves . |
| 12 | ‘ We , ’ he proclaimed , encompassing them all with a theatrical gesture , ‘ are Contraband . ’ |
| 13 | But we 're not handling them any better . |
| 14 | Hick , a member of their 1983 World Cup squad when only 17 , will be opposing them this time . |
| 15 | His talents may not have been great but his importance lies in his using them all to express in painting his romantic vision . |
| 16 | You need three paint brushes ( you should already have these and be using them all the time ) : a ) Clean brush for cleaning the fluff from the actual machine — around the needles and so on . |
| 17 | Corky 's taking an age typing them all in — even slower since I threatened to give him a good lashing ! |
| 18 | If we go back to the private 's utterance ‘ I 've been scrubbing them all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner ’ , we can relate it to these three layers as follows : |
| 19 | I was work la last week and I erm I got ta scrub my nails after done everything anyway like every , like after I made the sandwiches , I scrub my nails after I 've been washing up , scrub my nails so I was scrubbing them all day Saturday , last week and it still did n't come out . |
| 20 | Syl was eating them all up without requiring any encouragement . |
| 21 | Matters get more complicated still when it becomes evident that a group of students may well be inventing them both as an assignment for a creative writing course , until the students admit that they too are ‘ a pack of lies dreamt up by the unreliable narrator in love with the zeroist author in love with himself but absent in the nature of things , an etherised unauthorised other ’ ( 155/733 ) . |
| 22 | He 's bringing them all . |
| 23 | A light wind had sprung up , bringing them both out in goose-flesh . |
| 24 | She was desperate for more of him ; her body ached for fulfilment , for the feel of his need and strength inside — so that when he entered her , when she felt that first wondrous thrust , which brought both pleasure and pain , it was as she 'd always dreamed , and as his urgent rhythm continued , bringing them both to that glorious peak of exhilaration , Robyn cried out his name , held him close to her for a moment and wished things could be like this forever . |
| 25 | The fire brigade reappeared , bringing them some council inspector , who obviously wanted to evacuate the house . |
| 26 | She was bringing them some papers and some photographs in a big brown envelope . |
| 27 | Luke was drawing them all in , drawing them back , drawing her … |
| 28 | By the time you 've you 've moved them all rather than drawing them all in again then you run the con activity and swop back . |
| 29 | problems and they 're upping them all so he thought well I 'll get out while the going 's good |
| 30 | There in the moonlight tearing them all off , throwing them to the street below . |