Example sentences of "they [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have to remember that Americans only found this endemic American music in the '60s when they began listening to English groups , who were doing something really important , which was taking black music and making it louder . |
| 2 | They hung drying on short loops of black thread suspended from lengths of string stretched across the walls from corner to corner , and dim shadows turned slowly on the walls behind them . |
| 3 | He then paid tribute to the Alresford Society , pointing out that when they started pushing for environmental improvements in the 1970s , it was before conservation had come into fashion . |
| 4 | If they started pinching from old people and things like that |
| 5 | We 're having good fun , they kept going with big spaces and could n't get them up . |
| 6 | A number of organisations to which we spoke provided ( paid ) training for people filling such positions , despite the fact that they would only be working for them on a casual basis and might even use the skills they acquired working for other organisations . |
| 7 | The old died first , the beggars and the maimed ; they just froze as they leaned gasping against urine-stained walls . |
| 8 | Not all of them were even keen readers outside working hours , and they preferred relaxing in other ways . |