Example sentences of "they [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have n't found their sea legs yet , and a sudden lurch can bring several of them raining down on our faces . |
| 2 | Those are rocks and you are sitting on them gazing out to sea . |
| 3 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 4 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 5 | Just the two of them hanging on in that decaying old house , ’ Schellenberg said . |
| 6 | The senior man , who had come in from Los Angeles to E.B.I.H.Q. after Erlich had left Washington , he 'd be everybody 's friend , he 'd have them eating out of his hand down at Counter-Terrorism , he 'd probably take out citizenship . |
| 7 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 8 | Family historians very soon become aware of the rather bizarre and uncanny way in which people 's lives can bring them circling back to places which have strong connexions with their own forgotten ancestry . |
| 9 | A false report of a bid for Williams Holdings by the Barclay brothers sent its shares leaping 55p to 280p before denials saw them crashing back to 239p . |
| 10 | A false report of a bid for Williams Holdings by the Barclay brothers sent its shares leaping 55p to 280p before denials saw them crashing back to 239p . |
| 11 | COLWYN BAY 'S BJ Welsh Knockout Cup campaign ended in disaster when unfancied Pontblyddyn sent them crashing out with a seven-wicket blasting . |
| 12 | You could hear them squeaking off from a distance . |
| 13 | I mean you see them walking around particularly people who go for the big dogs , you see them walking around with a big thick necks , the tattoos , the er the boots and the jeans rolled up . |
| 14 | They were beings like Miach , a crowd of them walking down to the shore from the forest . |
| 15 | Moira went over to her friends and he saw them looking back at him and sniggering . |
| 16 | Other passengers were queueing at the check-point , most of them looking back as if that glimpse was all they could carry with them to their destinations . |
| 17 | Alina leans on the rail beside Angelica , both of them looking down at Walter as he makes another thrust into the darkness beneath them . |
| 18 | They asked you to cut worms in half , watch them wriggling off in two halves , made you draw blood with a compass , and watch it oozing out . |
| 19 | This resistor absorbs the network signals and stops them bouncing back down the wire . |
| 20 | The company participates in nearly a score of such ventures , some of them dating back to the 1930s . |
| 21 | A total of 9.4 per cent , equivalent to 33,000 miles , were destroyed during the period 1984-90 , some of them dating back to Anglo-Saxon times . |
| 22 | All the ages of man and all the races of Islam seemed to be represented : mustachioed Arabs , dark-skinned Somalis , small South Indians in lungis , huge Delhi businessmen bulging out of their pyjamas , prodigiously bearded Afghans swathed in shawls like Old Testament prophets — all of them surging up through the Meena Bazaar towards the Jama Masjid steps . |
| 23 | It was great to hear so many risks being taken , and hugely satisfying to hear so many of them paying off in such exhilarating fashion . |
| 24 | No , the , the , the extension of them going up for the cup and all , that 's what it was . |
| 25 | He says we see them going up in the air , they do these tight manoevres . |
| 26 | He says we see them going up in the air , they do these tight manoevres . |
| 27 | Those people with dogs in that sort of situation are very welcome to walk through the playing field and then out the other side and away , I would n't stop them going over from that entrance to the to the top entrance . |
| 28 | She 'd be sent to her room and hear them going on about how if it was n't for The Child — her — everything would be different and it would have ended years ago . |
| 29 | Kāli and her cousin , Jit , were at the far end of the roof waving their arms , keeping the sheep contained at one end only , stopping them going back down the steps at the other side . |
| 30 | so , erm , they rang and they rang , and they rang for a good twenty to twenty five minutes and we just erm , we , we all huddled together in the living room , and erm , anyway about half an hour went past , and then they finally went , we saw them , we live in a flat , and we saw them from the window , we saw them going back to the station you see . |