Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [pos pn] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I Galileo Galilei , being in my seventieth year having before my eyes the Holy Gospel , which I touch with my hands , abjure , curse and detest the error and heresy of the movement of the Earth . ’ |
| 2 | Grossing up their results the authors of the inquiry suggested that just over 7 per cent of all jobs in the economy were temporary . |
| 3 | But by the end of the poem , he has become a character of extra-terrestrial proportions , a romantic sufferer carrying on his shoulders the sins of society . |
| 4 | Young Pamela used to have to don a tutu and dance until she dropped , hot angry tears rolling down her cheeks the while . |
| 5 | They were making up their minds the next day , so I could n't risk — ’ |