Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [v-ing] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They want anyone recognising the shirt — with The Dude written above a cartoon of a man holding a Union Jack surf board — to contact them . |
| 2 | Around 11.30am Cumberland deployed his four marching columns into three lines abreast and the troops moved forward in their battle formation until , 500 yards [ 460 m ] ahead , they found themselves facing the rebel lines , stretching from Culloden park on the rebel left to the walled Culwiniac farm enclosure on their right . |
| 3 | Now , in the bitter 1980s they found themselves facing the impact of annual cuts in real funding , and pressures to apply new codes of managerial techniques and short-term profit-making out of tune with the traditional practices of British universities . |
| 4 | And suddenly they found themselves talking the sort of language that all of us can understand , and they got quite excited about this . |
| 5 | She 'd had to buy all her guides Coca Cola from guiding funds , and send them home early in a hired bus in case they electrocuted themselves storming the gates of Eldercombe Manor in search of Dancer . |
| 6 | They have drawn out the magical circle simply to trap the adventurers , when they saw them approaching the area . |
| 7 | When I got back I had bed rest for a couple of days and then they had me scrubbing the houses and that . |
| 8 | And that was er under John John was the manager and er I tell you Scott come and he started swearing at me and I says , I did n't m ask you for your bloody job , so next er next morning when they goes , he they had they had me walking the rope . |
| 9 | They see themselves exercising the restraining , moderating role they played in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 10 | We have er patrols , patrols out in the erm out in the area as part of our normal job , if they see anybody infringing the order , they 'll have a word with them and er make sure they know about it , and apart from that , as I say , we 're appealing to the good sense of our customers , we are in a very serious situation . |