Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In piecing it together afterwards the thing began to go wrong when somebody asked the Butcher was he going to the ‘ do ’ in the Bank . |
| 2 | She was holding it so tight the hook was embedded in her flesh . |
| 3 | The Suez event was a parting of many ways ; but justice is not done to their complexity by perceiving it as merely the last spasm of an Empire-orientated Britain , a Britain conditioned to regard ‘ losing out in the Middle East ’ as immediate destruction . |
| 4 | Discovery of Conradian horror beneath polite society , rediscovery of an Original Sin which burdened savage and citizen equally , connecting them however much the latter might politely protest , left unredeemed modern humanity at a level as terrible as that of primitives trapped in their cycle of fertility rites . |
| 5 | The contributory pension lent a unifying status , making them no longer the ( passive ) ‘ aged poor ’ but dignified and active ‘ old age pensioner ’ . |
| 6 | They 're making it so only the rich can be educated . |
| 7 | Meteorites are studied in the laboratory because it is thought that their chemical composition is showing us quite accurately the chemical composition of the Solar System at the time of its formation . |
| 8 | Athelstan could n't leave his parish and go into the city , but he wished he could speak to the coroner , apologise for leaving him so abruptly the night before last . |