Example sentences of "[v-ing] they [subord] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little crowd was encouraging them while they performed what somebody told me was a tango . |
| 2 | The computer industry has only recently realised that , on the whole , ordinary people do not like computers and are only comfortable using them when they do not know they are doing so . |
| 3 | At the same time , he took great trouble over the team 's welfare , even to the extent of helping them when they signed their contracts . |
| 4 | Slave masters strode through the crowds of men and women whipping them if they slowed down or showed any interest in the travellers . |
| 5 | For the international people there are civil laws , by which they companies have to provide what we call indemnities for the person who works and these indemnities go according to certain formulas , which is known by everybody , and it 's in a way protecting them after they leave . |
| 6 | He had sublet part of his house to a married daughter , and would also play with his grandchildren , ‘ amusing them when they come back from school ’ . |
| 7 | He did not feel so hostile to them as he did to the ravens , and merely ignored them , overflying them if they came too close but not behaving more aggressively than that . |
| 8 | He was imagining them as they scurried to and fro like rats , like rabbits , when farmers burnt the stubble off their fields . |
| 9 | That dust was billowing and choking them as they struggled to ascend . |
| 10 | Their newspapers provided odd bits of information , such as plutonium-poisoning maps that frightened readers rather than reassuring them because they did not know how to interpret them . |
| 11 | The revolutionary new Caller Display system , introduced on a trial basis two months ago , allows customers to see the number of the person calling them before they answer the phone . |
| 12 | They did not like his presence but he found little difficulty in scaring them off , or evading them if they tried to mob him , and the food in these places was plentiful . |
| 13 | She does not , apparently , test her spellings by saying them as they look , but imposes upon them the correct pronunciation . |
| 14 | They entered the Circle by the South Gate , the Hearthware lieutenant Dunan greeting them as they arrived , and walked the tired horses with their injured riders up alongside the Rorim 's stream to the Inner Circle , and the Manse with its blue pennants snapping in the brisk wind . |
| 15 | Newspapers remain expensive propositions and the cost of running them until they turn in a profit is immense . |
| 16 | An ardent Anglophile , Tritsis used frequently to astonish British journalists with the breadth of his knowledge about Westminster , asking them if they thought Enoch Powell or Tony Benn the more radical figure . |
| 17 | The thing that worked best when we were going through an investigation was to get individual kids to come and explain it … mind you they made such a racket applauding them when they 'd finished etc. , but I felt they were listening more carefully to them than they were to me ! |
| 18 | Darkling they drew off as best they could , dragging their wounded with them , carrying them when they dropped . |
| 19 | He sat down at his desk , straightening his things that Lee had moved , putting them where they had been before , in the exact spot . |
| 20 | They had seen the rise in output from the giants Fender and Gibson have an adverse effect on quality ( in short , they were n't making 'em like they used to ) and Jol and his team were determined to put matters straight . |
| 21 | In defence , the dismounted men-at-arms and archers ( the archers being either in ‘ wedges ’ or set out before the men-at-arms ) provided density of resistance , giving each other support , the men-at-arms being all the better protected , since the archers were able to fire their weapons a considerable distance against an advancing enemy , thus disrupting them before they reached the defending men-at-arms who , with their own cavalry , could then mount a counter-attack . |
| 22 | They encountered no opposition though Ranulf maintained that he had seen a rider watching them as they crossed the bridge at Dalmeny . |
| 23 | She felt as if he was closing a door behind them and right at this moment she would have liked to keep it open , if only just a crack , because Felipe de Santis walked round the plane and stood watching them as they came towards him . |
| 24 | Entranced , she watched herself watching them as they spiralled to earth around her . |
| 25 | The South is a different country so there 's no point in uniting them unless they want to be united . |
| 26 | They agreed to try to express any feelings of animosity at an early stage , rather than harbouring them until they exploded . |
| 27 | A COUPLE who caused suffering to their pets by deserting them when they moved house have been banned from keeping animals for five years . |
| 28 | Some said they were sensitive to the water , their symptoms leaving them when they drank bottled water . |
| 29 | He begins to jog , kicking off his sandals , leaving them where they fall . |
| 30 | Well times I receive a fax I just keep going up there and bothering them until they say it 's gone through . |