Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Springfield walked Curtis and Pam to the hospital carpark , where they stood chatting by Curtis 's car . |
| 2 | This happens , for instance , when the volkstümlich tunes so popular in early nineteenth-century bourgeois domestic song ( where they signify according to romantic conceptions of nation and community ) are used by working-class singers for disaster ballads ; when sentimental Tin Pan Alley ballad melody is ‘ gospelized ’ by Ray Charles or Otis Redding ; or when the heavy four-four of the quick march ( goose step ? ) is appropriated by the early punk bands as a mode of critique . |
| 3 | I did n't know that they produced according to peak |
| 4 | Among its recommendations were ( i ) the creation of vents and energy absorption systems which would dissipate the force of an explosion ; ( ii ) the repositioning of cargo containers to ensure that any explosive energy was either directed outwards or absorbed by other baggage containers ; and ( iii ) improving flight recorders so that they continued working after a power failure . |
| 5 | all that money that they keep demanding from the er th wa th wa the firms and such like that ought to have been ploughed back into the firm ! |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps we ought to make sure that they keep travelling towards Pantai . |
| 7 | Problem is , the products are so popular with the cast that they keep disappearing from the set ! |
| 8 | I should , of course , in the event that they began disposing of those I like — you , Sunil , that rather delicious young Wu and that engaging Armenian . |
| 9 | We hope that they enjoy working at Crediton . |
| 10 | Now as a national organizer all the branches in your area if they had any complaints or anything that they wanted attending to used to write to their national organizer and I used to visit and deal with their complaints . |
| 11 | He compared the legal systems of different societies , and showed that they varied according to how many laws were based on the principle of repression , and how many on the principle of restoring the situation to what it had previously been ( restitution ) . |
| 12 | One day later the Ringaskiddy residents announced that they intended going to the High Court to seek an order enforcing the asbestos dumping regulations . |
| 13 | For instance : 70 per cent of all employees who were asked said that they liked working for the company . |
| 14 | And he tossed the bunch of keys so that they flew sparkling through the air and landed in the princess 's lap . |
| 15 | It is the process where-by the state encourages and legitimates certain forms of dependency , such as unemployment and early retirement among men aged 60–64 , while subjecting others not only to substantially lower incomes , but also to control procedures intended to ensure that they continue searching for work ( Sinfield 1981 : 142 ) . |
| 16 | It said : ‘ The council has written to a number of stores requesting undertakings that they cease trading in contravention of the Sunday trading provisions of the Shops Act . |
| 17 | They knew that physically Rose could do much more than she was willing to try , so they kept searching for the key that would restore her will to live without being , unnecessarily , a burden on others . |
| 18 | Once they began talking about their lives and history they had a lot to offer . |
| 19 | they just want to start it , cos once they start getting through that 's when they start getting wanting decent , wanting to eat more and I mean I make them clean theirs thoroughly , they 're really good at doing them actually as well |
| 20 | Once they start going off it 's not really worth having them , so . |
| 21 | That has been the dilemma for Hong Kong — the necessity of staunching the flow — and they deserve understanding for a decision that carries all manner of risks for their own future as 1997 nears . |
| 22 | That has been the dilemma for Hong Kong — the necessity of staunching the flow — and they deserve understanding for a decision that carries all manner of risks for their own future as 1997 nears . |
| 23 | ‘ Christ , I ask for something positive and they come shooting at us from all angles . |
| 24 | The rules as to the time that property passes are contained in section 16–1g and they differ according to whether the contract is for the sale of specific or unascertained goods . |
| 25 | ‘ The Secret Police looked for me just the day after I left and they kept looking for me on and off for a year . |
| 26 | And sad things like children falling into fires and because in the mud huts you have the fire in the centre of the hut and it 's quite easy for the children to fall in and there was one little boy there who had been there for over a year and they kept trying to erm heal up all his skin wounds . |
| 27 | I could see the socks inside the trainers — they were Dayglo green , the sort that used to be in fashion years ago — and they kept walking towards me . |
| 28 | and they got boring in the end cos they went on , you know about a bit too , you 've got to stop |
| 29 | He grasped the little man 's arms desperately and they lay looking into each other 's faces . |
| 30 | And they like going on holiday oh and a pretty tiara . |