Example sentences of "they [v-ing] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , since the database files were in dBASE format , it is possible to interrogated them using this software rather than Doctor Data if you choose . |
| 2 | And er you you you could hear them patting this butter outside a shop you know , it was a lovely sound on marble slabs and they were patting away at this butter . |
| 3 | Could it have stopped them getting this bad ? |
| 4 | They would has/e swum naked only Rufus 's father had discovered them doing this and made a fuss out of all proportion to the offence , if offence it was . |
| 5 | And they had a strap and they used to carry all the weight on their foreheads and on , and through their necks , and they used to climb , we went up to seventeen and a half thousand feet , and they climbed up with all these bags and they cooked for us and they got river water for us and sometimes they had to walk a kilometre to the river to go and get the water and then carry it back again er with the band around their heads and so initially it seemed quite difficult to accept them doing this for you , but for them it was a job and erm it was probably the only sort of job that they could get . |
| 6 | I mean , we 've had them doing this at eight year old . |
| 7 | And I 've seen them doing this right up till they 're in their eighties . |
| 8 | Everybody had a contract that was made specific to them saying this material , these audio tapes are your property . |
| 9 | So what I 'm saying is their dignity , and you often hear them saying this , their dignity is the important thing . |
| 10 | Acts undertaken for another purpose and not in order to consent can constitute consent if undertaken in the belief that they will confer a right or impose a duty and if the fact that they are undertaken with such a belief is the reason for them having this result . |
| 11 | Before I approach BIFU with a view to them taking this up for bank staff ( and others ) in general , I thought it would be good for staff morale and also for our members if we adopted a practice which was , after all , in use in 2,550 BC . |
| 12 | Why are they saying this ? |
| 13 | ‘ They keep saying , ‘ Why are they doing this to us ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Why are they doing this ? |
| 15 | Why are they doing this to us ? ’ |
| 16 | Why are they doing this to me ? |
| 17 | Why are they doing this ? |
| 18 | Why are they doing this ? |
| 19 | Why are they doing this to me , Keith asks himself , as if he did n't know . |
| 20 | So wh why are they doing this , this survey |