Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] these [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie kept catching her eye with an expression of knowing amusement , but at the same time she obviously hated having these men stomping through her every possession and destroying any remaining magic in her secret chamber . |
| 2 | The key to direct analysis and systematic comparison of the very large amount of data collected using these methods is the concept of the linguistic variable . |
| 3 | Consequently when commercial artists and manufacturers began using these photographs as reference for comic strips , book illustrations , box tops etc. they assumed the reel to be a speaker grill . |
| 4 | He began writing these experiences for a film and when he produced his manuscript it was partly autobiographical . |
| 5 | Taken together , Carter 's handling of economic affairs , the hostage crisis and foreign policy in general combined to give him ‘ the lowest job approval ratings of any president since Gallup began taking these measurements in the 1940s ’ . |
| 6 | It sounded okay but we kept getting these fumes . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , ‘ I kept getting these phone-calls . ’ |
| 8 | Well twenty years ago I was on programmes like this , saying that doctors who said that Valium and the other tranquillizers were perfectly safe were talking rubbish and that there was every possibility that there would be problems found in the future , if we kept prescribing these drugs for vast numbers of people . |
| 9 | Well I used to share a , share this flat with my mate and erm you know , she got a bit out of hand , she kept bringing all these people home and she kept having these parties and it was really difficult for me to study cos I used to go well I still try to go to college , but erm you know , it was really hard for me to study and made my life really , really difficult ! |
| 10 | Yet he — I — seemed pleased enough , and kept dribbling these words across the page . |
| 11 | This policy has brought it £24m of borrowings , most at variable rates , and Mr Linacre said replacing these borrowings with convertible preference shares , yielding 7 per cent , would save the group about £1.8m a year . |