Example sentences of "they [verb] [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are various means of inducing hypnosis — but not one of them includes swinging a watch on a chain before your eyes ! |
| 2 | You notice time and time again that one of them keeps reading a newspaper instead of working . |
| 3 | All of them died leaving a minor to succeed . |
| 4 | Well they want stabilizing a bit yeah and er |
| 5 | Two of the schemes were paraded somewhat grudgingly , and only on an interim basis , because they involved preserving a measure of selection at the age of thirteen or fourteen . |
| 6 | We have made our plans ; they involve change ; they involve striking a balance . |
| 7 | Now if you violate any of the assumptions ordinary squares , right , then the procedure will produce or may produce misleading results , we can only be confident in statistical terms about ordinary leased squares parameters , right , because we know and show in theory that they hold providing a number of assumptions are met , like you have serially uncorrelated errors , right , we do n't have m multi co-linearity amongst the regresses , right , we have constant variance throughout the sample now if any of those er assumptions are breached , violated then our , any statistical results that are generated from erm the technique that assumes that those assumptions have n't been breached erm are invalidated and we can get very misleading er parameter estimates , right , in the presence of auto correlation or multi-linearity erm . |
| 8 | Samantha Sherratt , who is compiling the Information Pack , would be glad to hear from people with any comments or details of problems they faced following a partner 's imprisonment . |
| 9 | But in 1921 the King 's personal physician , Lord Dawson , stunned his profession alike and delighted the press by praising the morality of family limitation and warning Church leaders that they risked losing a whole generation by their unrealistic pronouncements ; an example followed in 1925 when the next King 's physician , Sir H. Rolliston , Regius Professor of Physick at Cambridge , became president of a new family-planning clinic . |
| 10 | Both activities can be very enjoyable But neither activity will get you very far in your quest for fitness , and to be honest they give walking a bad name . |
| 11 | ‘ I would like to speak to any spectators who were at that match — particularly if they remember seeing a young girl in the company of an older man . ’ |
| 12 | The next day they began digging a pit at the base of a rock . |
| 13 | It tells how they returned bearing a huge bunch of grapes , and with reports of a land ‘ flowing with milk and honey ’ , just as God had promised . |
| 14 | Their mother and father have told them that it is about time they started helping a bit more at home . |
| 15 | And then she came back er , just before lunchtime I think and then they tried to , they sat Kirsty and and Claire down , and they told them to make up and talk to each other and in the end they started having a fight ! |
| 16 | You know , they told me , and the they were on , and they were like they really expected them to just make up and they started having a fight ! |
| 17 | The people for whom the message was phrased in this way might have recognised the irony — in a fertile country , they wanted to get a little bit more , so they started worshipping a fertility god , Baal ! |
| 18 | I suggested to RCA in America that instead of going the normal route that they try makin' a classy but inexpensive TV ad and get it on during shows like The David Letterman Show . |
| 19 | If these people are so keen on farming , why did they bother forming a band ? |
| 20 | According to a spokesman for the Birmingham Midshires building society , which still provides finance for self-build schemes , people are now encouraged to sell their first homes before they start building a new one . |
| 21 | John Gorman says he 's fine and once they start getting a few points you 'll see all the smiling faces back again . |
| 22 | Yes , nineteen thirties before they start getting a band . |
| 23 | As they enter their caves , they start producing a series of high-pitched clicks . |
| 24 | She said no and they start having a fight . |
| 25 | ‘ They love making a new friend . |
| 26 | Farmers are advised not to stop travellers and vehicles on the road or they risk committing a serious traffic offence . |
| 27 | Well , the first part of the question was when , when will they start seeing a return back on that money and secondly , when should n't you equity account it ? |
| 28 | At Mount Stewart in County Down Lady Londonderry let rip with an amazing ensemble of whimsical statues but they avoid seeming a jumble by the purposeful way in which they are related to the whole garden design . |
| 29 | They stood talking a long time at the crossroads before separating but he did n't offer to see her over the weekend . |
| 30 | They include holding a ’ round the table ’ conference with all interested parties . |