Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | On May 22 a 25-year old man committed suicide in Kwangju by leaping in flames from the roof of the mortuary building which contained the body of Park Seung Hee . |
| 32 | Bipedal leaping in kangaroos and bipedal sprinting in frilled lizards help to make their flight more startling and unpredictable . |
| 33 | However , a risk may be perceived , especially in regard to small business audits where the marking of client records might assist in accounts preparation . |
| 34 | Only five per cent of acting Oscars have been won in comedies ( Jack Lemmon won Best Actor for the earnest Save The Tiger ( 1973 ) , not for Some Like it Hot , The Apartment or The Odd Couple ) . |
| 35 | But only four per cent of Oscars have been won in musicals or westerns . |
| 36 | Corresponding figures are for Party B 28.6% of the votes , four seats ( 33.3% ) , of which three are won in constituencies and one is additional ; for Party C 13.6% of the votes , one seat ( 8.3% ) won in a constituency and no more ; and for Party D 12.3% of the votes and one seat ( 8.3% ) , which is an additional seat . |
| 37 | Six for Vitali Scherbo , but only the usual five for Britain — and two of those were won in boats and another on a bike ! |
| 38 | However , despondency soon set in early yesterday morning with the losses of the seats won in by-elections — Eastbourne , Ribble Valley and Kincardine and Deeside . |
| 39 | However , despondency soon set in early yesterday morning with the losses of the seats won in by-elections — Eastbourne , Ribble Valley , and Kincardine and Deeside . |
| 40 | ‘ Walking in sandals on the lanes of south-west France . ’ |
| 41 | Loved for his big glasses and silly grin , he mastered the art of playing guitar while walking in circles . |
| 42 | Individual sketchbooks show him , most significantly , alternating between his ideas concerning an ambitious , multifigure composition layered in iconographical implications , and the exploration of formal problems and innovations most frequently approached in sketches of single figures or images . |
| 43 | What is actually meant by intention is more problematic , and will be approached in stages . |
| 44 | The lure of big money was on the way and director Bob Rafelson had fortunately obtained Jack 's signature for another BBS film before the price went up and put him back on track as a counter-culture player , a route which Nicholson analysed in terms of the way he wanted his career to go . |
| 45 | Cook in batches until golden . |
| 46 | She suggested we try and cook in turns and bring the smaller children to play together in the workshop . |
| 47 | National pay settlements meant staff were difficult to attract in areas with high demand for labour-especially nurses in London , for example . |
| 48 | Media training courses run by the Press and Parliamentary Unit continued to attract in numbers lawyers seeking to improve their publicity skills . |
| 49 | ‘ Continuing abysmal ’ describes both , with no signs of the sales slump in cars improving . |
| 50 | Neither the extreme north of England nor the south coast had to endure the kind of onslaught that brought a plaintive cry from the Prior of St Thibaut-des-Brûlês , south-east of Paris , describing how an English force had burnt his village and ransomed the inhabitants and asking those who dwelt in towns and castles whether their suffering was anything like his . |
| 51 | Dark-feathered and wild , it dwelt in woods , surviving on a diet of maize , fruit and grass . |
| 52 | Eye-witnesses believe it could come from the same family of beasts as Ogopogo , Tazama and Pohengamok , who all dwelt in lakes throughout British Columbia . |
| 53 | This effectively prevented them from interfering in matters of state , or fomenting rebellion . |
| 54 | ‘ Do n't you think it 's time you stopped interfering in matters that do n't concern you ? ’ |
| 55 | His last two months in Kiev have made a welcome change from his tour of duty in Sri Lanka , which expelled him last year , accusing him of interfering in elections . |
| 56 | She looked at the baby , also drenched in tears , and found he had come back to life . |
| 57 | getting attacked in pubs you know like that 's happened to me , being verbally assaulted in the street has happened to me because I am with my lover who is a woman , who publicly I can not show like that love , publicly you know cos oh I 'm scared of violence you know , I like my face the way it is . |
| 58 | Again , we must remember that those sermons which got into print or were noticed and attacked in newspapers were not always typical : the typical is seldom noticed . |
| 59 | Neo-Malthusianism was further attacked in ways already discussed in Chapter 2 , but also drew what in the authors ' opinion was a misplaced and utopian analysis from the Marxist literature based solely on a critique of bourgeois ideology , without serious attention being given to the effects of rapid population growth in any social formation , transitional to socialism or towards any other social order . |
| 60 | The character of a woman may be attacked in ways other than an explicit recounting of her past sexual relationships or , indeed , that she was having sexual relationships . |