Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] [conj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Olson nevertheless slides from these precise comments into grander generalisation and appears to attribute the characteristics associated with specific exponents of the essay technique to writing as such and to the whole culture . |
| 2 | We 're acting like that because of the way we 've been treated in the past throughout the school . |
| 3 | We were getting on great and at the end they asked if we had drink at home . |
| 4 | Harry held his breath , catching at that as at the first landmark by which he might hope to get his bearings . |
| 5 | Also in 1908 audiences could have seen Unemployed and Unemployable in which the central character begins by haranguing a crowd ; he is dragged off by his wife and given a whole range of domestic tasks all of which he makes a mess of ; he accidentally acquires stolen goods and is arrested ; the film ends with this ‘ lounger ’ working at last but in the cells . |