Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] in [art] [adj -er] [noun] " 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 | Rodrigo marched into Valencia in triumph , only to learn that his old adversary Berenguer of Barcelona — who had never forgiven the Cid for capturing him in an earlier campaign — had formed an alliance with the Moorish lord of Lerida and El Cid 's own sometime ally Mostain of Saragossa . |
| 3 | She added that the festival had been attended by more people than ever before , and that by celebrating it in a smaller town , away from the more sophisticated attractions of Bogotá , the festival had a more genuine , grassroots character . |
| 4 | N brief , I suggest that we can best understand the form of modern doctrines by situating them in a broader dialogue within liberal political philosophy concerning the relation between the citizen and the state . |
| 5 | Do not hesitate to throw a card away after rewriting it in a better form . |
| 6 | We have decided to amplify the chords by reduplicating them in the higher octave in order to obtain greater clearness and bite . |
| 7 | She blushed because of his quizzical look which said a great deal and turned everything topsy turvy and her knees to water , leaving her in a worse confusion . |