Example sentences of "being carefully [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arriving at Llandrindod Wells and being carefully instructed by the guard how to cross to the other platform and the reassurance that he would be coming with us . |
| 2 | There 's not much room for a car in Bill and Joan Gaskell 's garage at the moment — it 's choc full of orchids — being carefully prepared for the Chelsea Flower Show . |
| 3 | Their machine guns fired " through " the propeller , the timing being carefully synchronized with the rotation of the propeller so that the bullets always passed between the blades and never shot them off . |
| 4 | There was the sound of feet being carefully wiped on the doormat , as once sharply requested by Mrs Stych soon after her marriage had taken her into polite circles . |
| 5 | However there is still the slightly bizarre picture of flint being carefully transported from the South Downs northwards over 350 km , along the Icknield Way into East Anglia on the Chalk ridge which contains countless tonnes of flint nodules perhaps 1 0 m below the surface . |