Example sentences of "[conj] be [v-ing] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , the ERCs fail in some cases to rehabilitate the men and women who pass through them largely because it is not their physical disablement but their attitude that is handicapping them in returning to normal working life , and the ERCs are not really equipped to change these attitudes . |
| 2 | Skerne Park residents who were delighted when the traffic-slowing plans were approved are now worried by the bus companies ' attitude and are accusing them of putting profit before public service . |
| 3 | In England , football hooligans have learned Orange songs , and are adapting them to their own purposes . |
| 4 | They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs . |
| 5 | At the front , though , they had taken them through the gate and were playing them on the windows of Hilda Machin 's sitting-room . |
| 6 | A couple of them had produced flaming torches from nowhere and were brandishing them with all the zeal of a party of drunken Transylvanian peasants storming Castle Frankenstein during an electrical storm . |
| 7 | Farmer , Robert Wallace has re-stocked a private woodland with the animals and is raising them for their meat . |
| 8 | Now she has refined those skills with the help of judo and is putting them at the service of her country . |
| 9 | She returned to the sitting room and struck Tam , who had knocked the bowl of biscuits from the table and was wolfing them off the carpet . |
| 10 | A uniformed policeman had stepped out from the kerb up ahead and was waving them into a side road . |
| 11 | It was a crisp Saturday morning in February , and the young man had picked her up from her flat and was driving them to a motor-racing track in the heart of Surrey . |
| 12 | That he had begun to make them when he had first discovered that letter on Eleanor 's word-processor , and was following them with absolutely dogged determination . |
| 13 | But when he looked back over his shoulder for help , Garvey too had descended his ladder and was following them into the nave . |