Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them went through the ritual of gazing about them with curious eyes in search of a familiar face among the crowds . |
| 2 | Andrew 's mother Janice , 23 , who was walking with them in nearby Haxby , said : ‘ The first thing I heard was Carol scream , then a bang . |
| 3 | Andrew 's mother Janice , 23 , who was walking with them in nearby Haxby , said : ‘ The first thing I heard was Carol scream , then a bang . |
| 4 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 5 | Keep condoms handy , so you do n't have to go tearing around looking for them at that crucial moment . |
| 6 | Penelope had taken note of the two quite personable looking men who had just come into the hall ! and were standing looking about them with some bewilderment , as if uncertain what they ought to do . |
| 7 | We host one evening meal a week for the children , spoiling them rotten with chicken and chips and looking after them from 7.30 to 9.30 pm . |
| 8 | The ‘ gaudy seed bearer ’ will have his sex life disrupted by Blanche living with them in such a small flat . |
| 9 | Your chance to make up your own mind about what key decision makers are saying by listening to them in full . |
| 10 | Deminex UK , which has secured another Liverpool Bay licence , has been exploring fields since 1972 and operating on them since 1977 . |
| 11 | In a brown-panelled room smelling of tobacco they sat on opposite sides of a cold hearth full of cinders , swallowing hot wine and water under the blue eyes of Sergeant Collier , who was looking at them with intent curiosity like a man staring at a two-headed dog in a freak show . |
| 12 | He 'd lie on his bed at three or four in the morning just looking at them with rapt concentration , not reading them , just laying them out , changing which one was next to which one , as if determining some sequence or some relationship between the writers . |
| 13 | Write in and let us know what you think about the new law changes — we will be looking at them in greater detail in next month 's issue . |
| 14 | Looking at them in this light it is natural to turn to that Elizabethan model for letter-writing , Angel Day 's The English Secretorie ( 1586 ) . |
| 15 | I would ask those concerned if they could be patient and given time I will refund all money owing to them including any interest that would have accrued had their money been in a bank . |
| 16 | An old man , swathed in robes , sat before the fire ; he looked up when Corbett and Thomas squatted before him across the stones , peering at them with rheumy eyes , his lips parted in a toothless , dribbling smile . |
| 17 | Now at that time the Scottish National Party was the only other party in Scotland advocating what we were advocating ( though obviously going much further ) and it seemed to me crazy to be competing with them for devolutionary votes . |
| 18 | She pointed to an area of the graphic that was expanding into other sections , eating into them like some strange , glittering kind of cancer . |
| 19 | We combine these by choosing just a few random points in them , say two or three , and copying from the first string up to the first point ; then copying from the second up to the second point ; then copying from the first again ; and so on , switching between them at each point . |
| 20 | Anyway , I 'd been staying with them in darkest Kensington , at Mr Gibbon 's very grand , three-storeyed town-house in Ascot Square , just off Addison Road , and working at a branch of Mondo-Food on Victoria Street ( they were trying a new line in Haggisburgers at the time and the manager thought my accent would help shift them . |
| 21 | looking after the littlest ones all day and and she 's obviously been speaking to them like that during |
| 22 | There was nothing , and suddenly there was everything : solid , sodden fields slightly canted over , and three , four German aircraft flying across them at fifteen hundred feet . |
| 23 | On three sides of this mound there is a colonnade on a raised platform comprising sixteen evenly spaced square pillars of unhewn stone , each thirty-two feet high , linked together at the top by heavy beams with ropes and chains hanging from them at short intervals . |
| 24 | ‘ I get a lot of laughs from everyone who sees me , especially when I 'm going across long grass and all they can see is an airline captain coming towards them at great speed with exhaust smoke coming from my rear end . |
| 25 | As in Australia , they were soon working flat out with people coming to them from all walks of life . |
| 26 | Nobody but nobody commented on Maggie 's shapely form — not unless they wanted acid dripping on them from that sharp tongue . |
| 27 | Wherever we turn we have woods , smooth downs , and valleys with small brooks running down them through green meadows … |
| 28 | ‘ I see , ’ he said with a quick look at the clerk , who was now staring at them with both eyes well open . |
| 29 | I stood staring at them in utter bewilderment . |
| 30 | The leading soccer and horserace commentators , with sometimes far more difficult foreign names coming at them at full pelt out of the fog , seem to manage wordperfectly and not give up the ghost in a surfeit of sniggers . |