Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [verb] they [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Otherwise he can just give them with the bloody tellies or trying to buy them with the tellies and the dealers have a lovely time
2 Film historians have spent a good deal of time debating the significance of the gangster films and attempting to relate them to the whole ethos of the Wall Street crash and the onset of the depression .
3 Of course a well-heeled litigant would still be able to frighten booksellers and newsagents by notifying them of the alleged libel and threatening to join them in the action unless they withdrew the offending publication from sale .
4 And having pilloried them in the past it is only fair to hear their point of view .
5 it was nothing for you to have the er sole of your sh shoe flapping off and having to wear 'em till the p there was a little man that used to mend the shoes in Hirael there and you 'd go to him and he 'd put a couple of nails , never charge you for it you know .
6 ‘ For stealing household goods and trying to sell them in the surrounding villages . ’
7 With regard to China , they maintained the financial and other sanctions imposed in 1989 in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre , while agreeing to reconsider them in the light of future improvements concerning respect for human rights in particular .
8 I think of my role as trying to guide them with the interface of the business side , the bits that they might not be interested in or do n't want to be involved in .
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