Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [adj] [noun] [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like — when I started my period she said , ‘ Congratulations , now you 're a woman ’ , but then it was all this hassle about hiding your sanitary towels and tampons from boys , and living in mortal fear that they would fall out of your bag and boys would know it was your period . |
| 2 | ‘ Far above the rot and vapours of the world the sun was riding high and golden ’ , but all the hobbits can see and hear is ‘ the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes , and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movements that they could not feel ’ . |
| 3 | It may well have been so intended , as it was in the Canadian case of Malette v. Shulman ( 1990 ) 67 D.L.R. ( 4th ) 321 where the Jehovah 's Witness carried a card stating in unequivocal terms that she did not wish blood to be administered to her in any circumstances . |
| 4 | ‘ If your own family is so badly brought up , ’ thundered a Scottish columnist , ‘ so lacking in moral fibre that it can not make a go of its marriages , what price all those Christmas homilies ? ’ |
| 5 | So common is this way of thinking in social research that it is difficult to recapture its radical and innovative character . |