Example sentences of "they [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That they did not was evident in 1988 as 112 gentlemen archers , over half of them using the traditional longbow , took aim at the annual tournament for the ‘ Antient Scorton Silver Arrow ’ . |
| 2 | The county council has since planted trees on that piece of land which has stopped gipsies from camping there but led to them using the verge instead . |
| 3 | There was a practical circus item which asked pupils to weigh given letters and then cost them using the postal charges table ( see Table 4.8 ) . |
| 4 | The first is not chronological but logical ; that is , it will set out how , having invented the six criteria with which I began Chapter 8 , I have tried to meet them using the passive avoidance task . |
| 5 | When you have collected and transcribed a large body of texts this may take two or three years — you can have a concordance made from them using the TEXT ANALYSIS ( TA ) programme . |
| 6 | By the way if your system date and time is wrong you can correct them using the MS-DOS commands DATE , and TIME . |
| 7 | But clergy could have other business too : at Rheims , Archbishop Hincmar found them using the leaves of ancient manuscripts to make envelopes " in which to keep the pennies they gained from trade " . |
| 8 | However , in Lego U.K. Ltd. v Lego M. Lemelstrich Ltd. [ 1983 ] , the Lego company , which makes children 's construction kits comprising coloured plastic bricks , was granted an injunction against the manufacturers of coloured plastic irrigation material preventing them using the name " Lego " as part of the description of the material . |
| 9 | To examine the effects of differentiation on ATF1 protein levels we prepared nuclear extracts from UF9 and differentiated F9 ( DF9 ) cells and compared them using the blotting assay . |
| 10 | He 's reluctant to stop them handling the lambs altogether . |
| 11 | One day , they met in the second class compartment of a train — unemployed but taking the bad days as cheerfully as the good , knowing that tomorrow probably would find them enjoying the material rewards of advertising yet again . |
| 12 | Jane had shown Patrick how to open the bottle of champagne , and they drank it slowly , neither of them enjoying the sharp fizzy taste , but neither willing to admit it . |
| 13 | Admittedly , Popper and Habermas may seem to be strange bedfellows ; for they have entered the lists against each other precisely over their views on knowledge and reason , both of them seeing the other as an unwitting ideologue . |
| 14 | This was the traditional mooring place for dahabeeyahs and in the old days , before Mr Cook had come with his steamers , there would have been over two hundred of them nudging the bank . |
| 15 | The result was a flood of Maori claims , many of them demanding the return of large areas of land . |
| 16 | Forty male Wistar rats , caged in groups of five , were maintained on the test diets for 18 months and were housed on refined cat litter to prevent them eating the bedding . |
| 17 | These defective viruses have usually lost a portion of their genetic material or suffered a single mutation that prevents them completing the full replicative cycle . |
| 18 | Now , three weeks later , here is where I was advised to begin-with them bringing the McLaren girl over from Fort Thomas in an ambulance wagon and the lieutenant taking her right into the Alamosa Hotel . |
| 19 | I mean we ca n't even have a bonfire round our way now , can we , without them phoning the police . |
| 20 | ‘ We do n't want them climbing the walls , ’ Mr Flokati said . |
| 21 | This reaches to the outer limits of hardcore with Carl Cox 's ‘ Rhythm Is A Drug ’ and the Wizard Of Oz 's ‘ Drowning In Your Blood Mix ’ which cleaned up at the band 's recent Heaven gig ( also backed with an ‘ Ahhhcapella ’ version which had them climbing the walls round at my place the other week ! ) . |
| 22 | Remember the other month , it was in the papers , was n't it ? about them tearing the clothes off that one who tried to queer their pitch ? |
| 23 | If Shadows and would-be Shadows started behaving like members of a government , there 'd be a greater chance of them becoming the real thing . |
| 24 | Their education certainly suffered as the teachers did not like them interrupting the curriculum and sat them at the back of the class and told them to write home . |
| 25 | Colin is the first to acknowledge that he really needs Mister C. It might sound a little ridiculous , but you could almost see them developing the same kind of double act as Flavor Flav and Chuck D. The prof and the prat . |
| 26 | The consequences of them wanting the drafts to be turned down . |
| 27 | The boat was ready to leave now and two members of its small crew began casting off , one of them pushing the boat away from the quayside with a long boat-hook . |
| 28 | I mean he 's in the auction when he should be with them writing the labels . |
| 29 | He had hoped that the project would foster greater continuity between children 's experience of learning in primary school , and their experience in the comprehensive : I want to get away from [ a didactic approach ] , to the pupils taking more responsibility for work they produce and being more autonomous in the way that they do it and hoping to create more responsibility in them rather than them seeking the teacher all the time for information ; and thinking that all knowledge and information and values have to be teacher judged … |
| 30 | Some of them serving the Institute well , by holding office at local or national level and others by being ( what I will become on Sunday ) ‘ an ordinary grumbling member ’ . |