Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun pl] [that] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many young people now are confidently writing real music , using the idioms that come most naturally to them . |
| 2 | ‘ Under John 's leadership , the last three years have seen significant progress and given us a good start in tackling the challenges that lie ahead . ’ |
| 3 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in condemning the supermarkets that have recently been opening on Sundays ? |
| 4 | In practice they overlap : for example , while the inner-city data was still being collected , we were analysing the tape-recordings that had already been obtained . |
| 5 | Without further ado , he slipped around the corner , and rushed towards the gangplank , ignoring the shots that zipped past . |
| 6 | After eight years of paying lawyers ' fees , Ragu is longer attending court an is ignoring the summonses that arrive regularly . |
| 7 | Everywhere in Greece the hoped-for growth of income from tourism depends in part on removing the smells that haunt too many beaches and other places where north Europeans twitch noses and raise eyebrows . |
| 8 | Emily had taken her revenge swiftly , severing the ties that had long been between the Grenfells and the Morgans . |
| 9 | CRICKET legend Ian Botham made his shark fishing debut — but returned to port without a bite and bemoaning the ones that got away . |
| 10 | Deem gives the example of cuts in teacher training , which had the effect of reducing the opportunities that had previously been available to large numbers of girls who had been considered by their teachers to be , as they put it to Michelle Stanworth , ‘ not university material ’ . |