Example sentences of "[v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Currey noted : ‘ Although the treaty goes out to the World as the concurrent agreement of the tribe , it is in reality nothing more than the agreement of Lawyer and his band , numbering in the aggregate not a third part of the Nez Perce tribe . ’ |
| 2 | The crowds , eventually numbering in the thousands , evolved into a spontaneous anti-war demonstration and headed across town , disrupting traffic while shouting ‘ No blood for oil ’ and finally rallying at the United Nations building . |
| 3 | Five years later the Football Association adopted numbering in the Cup final , using numbers 1 to 22 , but Chapman was not finally vindicated until 1939 — five years after his death — when the League made it compulsory , primarily for the benefit of spectators . |
| 4 | Baghoomian organised Basquiat 's last show in New York , and after Basquiat died of a drug overdose in the spring of 1988 , just a few months after that show closed , Baghoomian claimed a fifty percent share of all the works in Basquiat 's estate , numbering in the hundreds . |
| 5 | People are grabbing at each other and pushing , pulling and scuffling , or twisting in the air with imaginary opponents , urging their own version of violence . |
| 6 | Within another hour Nowak 's temperature was high with fever , he was rolling and twisting in the sheets , his body soaked in sweat . |
| 7 | A mumbled , incoherent sound bubbled and surfaced in her throat , and she clung to him for support , her fingers twisting in the silk of his shirt . |
| 8 | Thus cis-double bonds ( I ) , o- and m-phenylene groups ( 11 ) , or cis-oriented puckered rings ( III ) , all encourage bending and twisting in the chains and make regular close-packing very difficult . |
| 9 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |
| 10 | NHS ‘ LEAPING IN THE DARK ’ |
| 11 | Obviously he does not deny the cat 's whining and agitated leaping in the presence of the ball , nor does he refuse its possession of ‘ sensory data ‘ , but these will not show what the cat believes ; namely , ‘ what categories of things it recognises ’ . |
| 12 | As Tiguary announced the plan to the assembled chiefs , Dulé could see the scene in his mind 's eye : the fire licking up one mast , then leaping in the rigging to the other , snaking through the spars , then falling in sparks , and setting the decks to smouldering while sleepy men sloshed water about with the balers , yelling orders to one another , until , when the flames had lit up all the timbers and the ship blazed in a transparent lattice of spars and ribs , her defenders would fling themselves into the sea and the warriors would swoop out of the shallows and fall on them : it would be as easy as catching fish . |
| 13 | Walking and walking in the pissing rain . |
| 14 | Instinctively I turned away , and then I realized I was walking in the opposite direction , then running , almost tripping over my own two flat feet . |
| 15 | As though we were the first man and woman ever , walking in the Garden of Eden . |
| 16 | The main objective of our visit was to climb Mount Kenya , Africa 's second highest mountain , but walking in the Leroghis formed an important part of our preparation . |
| 17 | Many happy hours were spent walking in the woods , chasing elusive rabbits and splashing through the muddiest water . |
| 18 | The alarm had been raised by two peasants who , as the first sentence of the newspaper story recounts , were walking in the park and noticed a cap lying on the ground , together with a hood and a cudgel . |
| 19 | Healey recalls walking in the quad with him . |
| 20 | His most recent summer holidays were spent with his two sons walking in the central Pyrenees : ‘ It was quite gruelling . ’ |
| 21 | About a hundred yards from the village we came under automatic fire from somewhere on our left , and continued the rest of the way walking in the ditch . |
| 22 | I 'd originally gone to Czechoslovakia to photograph pollution but I 'm so glad I was pursuaded by my Czechoslovak friends to spend three days out of my precious two weeks walking in the Slovenský Raj . |
| 23 | They 've come a long way since those days though — the soles of that pair were completely worn through after 400 miles walking in the Andes so that I ended up walking in my socks ! |
| 24 | Once , as she was heading towards the gate ( thus walking in the direction opposite to that which Agnes was to take somewhat later , followed by the gaze of her unfortunate schoolfriend ) , the secretary turned , smiled and lifted her arm out in the air in an unexpected gesture , easy and flowing . |
| 25 | From time to time , walking in the crowded arcades of the Plaza Mayor , my heart would miss a beat as I fancied I saw Jordi mingling with all those similar dark heads and slender figures . |
| 26 | Arthur Machen describes in his autobiography how , walking in the hills above Caerleon , he came to a farm , once a Roman villa , where a stone had been found inscribed : ‘ Ave , Julia , carissima conjux ; in aeternum vale . |
| 27 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |
| 28 | I might see someone walking in the street , in an outfit I like , and think , she looks good . |
| 29 | Women , argued Mrs Anne Smith of West Bridgford , Nottingham , can do six jobs in five minutes of walking in the house with their coats still on . |
| 30 | Walking in the surrounding area is really enjoyable . |