Example sentences of "and [pers pn] describes the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She watches her values slowly being eroded , and she describes the process of moral degradation in terms of language : ‘ You find yourself giving in on little things , twisting words and meanings , always trying to be one-up on whoever you 're with , and then suddenly you give in on something else , much bigger ’ ( 131–2 ) . |
| 2 | And he describes the last 14 years of his life dedicated to overcoming the bitterness accumulated since the ‘ rubber barons ’ first reached the region , bringing with them thousands of labourers from Brazil 's impoverished Northeast , who they set to work as Seringueiros in lands wrested from the Indians . |
| 3 | ‘ Piero della Francesca does it like this , ’ and he describes the way the figures in Piero 's Baptism look at each other , drawing in the observer . |
| 4 | He speaks of the trouble he has in getting paid , his fear of old age and its isolation and poverty when he can no longer work ; and he describes the privations and pains of his working conditions . |
| 5 | And he describes the moment when the second stage is entered as seeing ( with all its connotations of understanding ) into heaven " for contemplacion es a syght , and se intil heven with gastly egh " ( 119.68 – 9 ) . |
| 6 | In the images of the poem and he describes the fox as moving does n't he . |