Example sentences of "[v-ing] they [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Immigration and Nationality Department of the Home Office has asked through the Scottish Education Department that we write to all governing bodies in Scotland reminding them of the difficulties created by urgent requests for naturalisation shortly before international sporting events . |
| 2 | not to let them get out of the pov that 's what I 'm saying , it suits them because they can buy up property much cheaper than if that two hundred pounds a week that 's being spent on bed and breakfast , that , they were spent on helping them with the problems as they are at the moment . |
| 3 | Of course , this consequence follows because the building society is in effect attracting funds from the public sector and channelling them to the borrowers that we identified in section 4.1.1 . |
| 4 | The main light was behind him , but I could still see the shadows on his face ; they were more marked than ever , and I had the foolish illusion that I could remove them by stroking them with the tips of my fingers . |
| 5 | Late-night scheduling has been a consistent feature of lesbian and gay programming , exploiting the gay audience 's motivation to watch these programmes while keeping them on the edges of broadcasting . |
| 6 | He says that that it 's a good way of introducing youngsters to trials riding , as well as keeping them off the streets . |
| 7 | The workshops mentioned later in the chapter may provide a hub for the self-directed learning by basing them on the problem(s) . |
| 8 | Myeloski , still unsteady on his feet from the effects of the flight , had weakly harangued a local taxi-driver into driving them to the police station . |
| 9 | Finally at the field of Maledor at the very entrance to the passes of Nagarythe Caledor faced the Witch King himself in battle and defeated the mightiest of his armies , driving them into the marshes of Maledor . |
| 10 | So we 're testing , those priorities are still holding for us that but we 're applying them to the localities . |
| 11 | The Doctor was standing on his head and juggling the balls by knocking them with the soles of his feet whilst gargling ‘ The Star-Spangled Banner ’ . |
| 12 | The harnesses that supported the two Chelonians swung from side to side , knocking them against the sides of the tank . |
| 13 | In fact these forms provide particularly striking examples of the process of struggle — crossing the lines of development of media , content and practice , and relating them to the positions of different groups — which is a more accurate picture of the general history than any simple structure of antitheses . |
| 14 | This section discusses ELT video materials under these headings as a way of relating them to the roles we can give video in the classroom . |
| 15 | Richard was quite correct , as technically speaking they were all in harbour , in addressing them by the names of their craft . |
| 16 | Modern science ignores this at its peril , and Xorandor may be read as a fable for scientists and would-be scientists , written in their own idiom , warning them of the consequences of cutting their project off from its conceptual genealogy , its own founding story . |
| 17 | A gap appears between the cells and enlarges , pushing them towards the sides and forming the blastocyst . |
| 18 | And then they started recruiting or or or promoting them from the ranks you know . |
| 19 | I I like writing them writing them on the nodes like that . |
| 20 | A pile was already to hand and he began folding the pamphlets and inserting them into the envelopes . |
| 21 | Constantine , late in his reign , demolished some temples and confiscated their estates throughout the empire , in-corporating them into the res privata , but keeping their accounts in a special category as fundi iuris templorum . |
| 22 | This has the effect of eliminating from our daily lives all those negative influences , problems and restrictions and replacing them with the seeds of positive plans , happiness and an expansive and creative mind . |
| 23 | ‘ Naturally , but I could see that he was merely dismissing them as the ravings of an hysterical woman . |
| 24 | Before this age parents can be given ideas about encouraging children to go to the lavatory before going to bed , and waking them at the parents ' bedtime so providing another chance to empty their bladder . |
| 25 | Like the latter , Genet inverts and subverts the surface/depth binary , confirming and exploiting the connections between the paradoxical and the perverse , and turning them against the regimes , heterosexual and otherwise , which outlaw the deviant . |
| 26 | As a reform candidate Reagan had made clear his low view of legislators , presenting them as the tools of special interests , primarily concerned with feathering their own nests . |
| 27 | The Rangers will help the area and visitors by advising , guiding and informing them about the Hills and the many interests to be seen and enjoyed . |
| 28 | Yet here was this unkempt figure , his long hair lank on his shoulders , leading them into the jaws of the unknown and sounding like a Bible prophet . |
| 29 | On the other hand , while Franco was selling strategic minerals to Hitler , he was also selling them to the Allies , precisely because he did not want Spain to become the economic satellite of Germany . |
| 30 | Musical history will remember those rejections , ranking them with the men from Decca Records who early in the 1960s said ‘ No ’ to Brian Epstein and his promising newcomers The Beatles . |