Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] them on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actual guides were waiting for them on the Scots side , from the Graham tower , producing a grim smile from Douglas , for one of his principal headaches as Keeper of Liddesdale was apt to be the inroads and cross-border raiding of these same Grahams , Kirkandrews prominent . |
| 2 | Hurley was waiting for them on the tarmac near the terminal in his big blue BMW 520i . |
| 3 | They crossed the road to face the oncoming traffic and had just passed a 40 mph speed limit sign when he looked over his shoulder and saw a car heading towards them on the wrong side of the road . |
| 4 | Ranulf the rat-catcher , Simon the tiler , and a host of others thronged the nave , sitting facing each other on the church 's two and only benches with Athelstan sitting between them on the sanctuary chair . |
| 5 | Erm and you could start making up your own and playing with them on the computer . |
| 6 | Well they love talking to them on the phone do n't they ? |
| 7 | From talking to them on the way home and talking to Ted Heath 's G P , who we also had a long discussion with , without doubt there are other people there who obviously simply refuse to let come home , who are just as serious and , from the sound of it , one or two perhaps even more serious than the ones we did bring home . |
| 8 | A wisp of pale green fire suddenly spurted into existence , hovering below them on the steps . |
| 9 | And all the other farmers were paying the guys who were working for them on the side , ten pound a day , for working from nine o'clock in the morning till about five at night . |
| 10 | Such patterns of stress may be so much more damaging than the sum of their separate effects because their co-existence leads to a different attribution of meaning to them on the part of the child . |