Example sentences of "they 're [v-ing] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well really that 's l by and large what groups is all about so it 's clearly that they do and there 's some cases here of sort of cyclists cycling harder and faster when they 've got they 're training with other cyclists or erm when they 're training against the clock . |
| 2 | They like training that 's practical and they 're dealing with real problems . |
| 3 | Hassan meanwhile ( between endless rushes to airports , trying to convince faceless , emotionless authorities that they 're dealing with genuine political refugees ) realises his life must find time for love as well as small ‘ p ’ politics . |
| 4 | That 's right , and , and the first act of the play is a rehearsal and it keeps stopping and the director keeps sort of straightening them out and they 're dealing with little problems , and when you 're actually rehearsing it you find yourself sort of repeating the play because it 's so ac Michael Frayn who wrote it has so accurately observed what happens er when you 're directing a play that er you find yourself re-enacting the play and , and suddenly find a discussion you 've just been having has part sounds as if it 's come out of the script . |
| 5 | I says , Well er we 're going about here , the two shunters are going about here and they 're vying with each other to see how much they can ignore me . |
| 6 | They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't they realise they 're playing with political dynamite ? |
| 8 | anyway , erm there will be tapes on the way and they 're consulting with other people too , so . |
| 9 | I think they really do want the support , and they want the backing when they 're negotiating with other , other bodies . |
| 10 | What the three thousand four hundred are saying is that the County Council and British Coal do not know where they 're going with this thing , the full implications of it have either not been properly assessed or indeed not been released to the to the local communities . |
| 11 | Whoever or whatever they are they 're associating with this man and if they do n't know what he does then they should . |
| 12 | And what you might need to start thinking about as well is how could you illustrate some of these , already around you in the room , going up , work from year nine where they have started writing that as a complaint to god , moaning about Hurricane Andrew , about earthquakes and floods and so on and they 've decided that they 're going to illustrate the work they 're doing with these paper cuttings of disasters and problems in the world , there 's one up here about a gorilla that 's been taken from the wild and is in captivity in London Zoo and they said that they think it 's wrong . |
| 13 | who 's technical , anyone know what they 're doing with these things ? |
| 14 | They want access to Thailand 's 11 million smokers and they 're fighting with all the muscle available to them , according to Prakit Vateesatokit , of the Thai Anti-Smoking Campaign . |
| 15 | They and they 're and they 're guzzling they 're fighting with each other and oh . |