Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was upstairs again , and now twenty-past eight , and she was informed by her apparent new friend that they had to join a small team to clean the toilets , which meant bringing the buckets down stairs , emptying them in the larger buckets arrayed along the wall by a side door ; then wash out each utensil under a pump and return it to its particular cubicle . |
| 2 | Collecting the trowel , she bent down and began stabbing it into the bigger clumps of earth to break them up . |
| 3 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 4 | Commissioners were accordingly appointed to make perambulations in the forests of Devon and Surrey : they were to be returned into the Chancery before Christmas , but were not to be put into effect until the officers of the central administration had had an opportunity of comparing them with the earlier perambulations of Edward I 's time . |
| 5 | So , although this perspective still has much to teach us , we shall subsequently be combining it with the broader explanations offered by later urban social theorists . |
| 6 | Molloy and Carroll suggest that while Access courses equip students with whatever is necessary for the completion of a degree course they may be less successful in preparing them for the higher levels of academic performance . |
| 7 | Since time immemorial ‘ Staggy ’ had been drip-feeding ambitious junior researchers with toxin , preparing them for the stronger poisons which lay ahead . |