Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [v-ing] they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He slapped both hands palms down on the table , slopping his tea and making them all jump , totally unselfconscious in his misery . |
| 2 | Now that you have a vague idea what is going on , you could be forgiven for throwing up your hands in disgust and letting them all get on with it . |
| 3 | He was talking faster and faster , pulling an accordion pleat of plastic cards from his pocket , folding and unfolding it , slipping each card past the robot 's swivelling eye and puffing them all back again before it could read any of them . |
| 4 | Comrade Wu , our guide who is coming with us for the rest of the tour , is teaching us some Chinese in the evenings , and we are trying out some new phrases every day and causing them some amusement . |
| 5 | The Mamur Zapt was in charge of law and order in Cairo and that meant keeping the city quiet and stopping them all from getting at each other 's throats . |
| 6 | We all know the well-worn apocryphal stories of Soviet nail manufacturers told to maximize tons of nails produced per man and making them all large in order to do this most easily . |
| 7 | The leaf-cutting ants of South America build vast underground nests and set off from them , day and night , in long columns to demolish trees , removing every shoot , leaf and stem , section by tiny section and transporting them all back to their underground chambers . |