Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven . |
| 2 | When he came within sight of the front door , the car was parked outside and two men helping a third up the steps . |
| 3 | I distinctly remember seeing a few of the eggs hitting the spokes of his front wheel as he slowed down . |
| 4 | Not necessarily all of the them , but most of them , that would leave the straight jurisdictionals and the clear no hopers , maybe the investigators would be getting a few of the ones that otherwise ideally they should n't but |
| 5 | You might be able to have half a bicycle if you share it with somebody else , but there is not way of having a thirtieth of a bicycles . |
| 6 | I will therefore restrict myself this morning to highlighting a few of the issues that will be covered in more detail in that report . |
| 7 | But Julian Meldrum , of the National Aids Trust , said the report showed that HIV infection , the early stages of full-blown Aids , was increasing among gay men following a levelling-off in the mid-1980s . |