Example sentences of "of [v-ing] them [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exchange visits between company and school have kept the project going and Courtaulds is now looking at the possibility of helping them design a fibre spinning rig . |
| 2 | But the same kind of people , very often , who are in trouble , are the ones who want somewhere quiet and peaceful where they can be alone with God and they can pray , and so in a sense it 's not a matter of turn them out of the church , it 's a matter of of encouraging them to use the church building in particular ways . |
| 3 | The British government argued , first , that such a change would have the effect of forcing them to adopt a type of system for documenting civil status which would have considerable administrative consequences and would impose new duties on the population . |
| 4 | These phases and the difficulties of separating them reflect the fact that mental processes are not subject to clearly defined distinctions and boundaries . |
| 5 | These types hang around the Great in the hope of getting them to pull a string . |
| 6 | The farmer and his neighbours were all friends so it was just a case of asking them to keep an eye on their moggies , and spying on a few of the plumper-looking ones — successful hunters , we assumed . |
| 7 | There seems to be no end to the possible replies we could receive and the job of categorizing them seems a nightmare . |
| 8 | The first is that the environment in which we live is so hostile to our tears that the pain of showing them outweighs the relief we get from letting them flow . |