Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [art] " 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 | And every day of those five weeks has been a knife slowly twisting in a wound . |
| 6 | Nathan shook his head , his mouth twisting in a humourless smile . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Within another hour Nowak 's temperature was high with fever , he was rolling and twisting in the sheets , his body soaked in sweat . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The mansion becomes a sort of cultural Hades , the extreme tendencies of both characters grappling in an orgy of drugs , sex and violence . |
| 13 | NHS ‘ LEAPING IN THE DARK ’ |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It 's like walking in a dream , all the shops and cars and everything all sort of fairy tale , like they ai n't really there . |
| 17 | Last year , walking in a forest above Lake Geneva , I saw terrible evidence of this as acre after acre of trees seemed to be dying from the top down . |
| 18 | Thus Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia , walking in a garden with McFarlane , could hear — naturally as birdsong — that the contras needed $1m a month ; he could pass the word to his uncle , the King ; the King could give the money ; and Reagan would release the Stinger anti-aircraft missiles needed by Saudi Arabia , not in explicit exchange ( nothing so crude ) , but as a reciprocal gesture of princely generosity . |
| 19 | The aim was for Skipper to be on the bridle , as racing people say : walking in a relaxed but energetic rhythm and accepting the bit . |
| 20 | If this is the case we may be standing , sitting or walking in a way that is putting enormous stresses on our structure without us even being aware of it at all . |
| 21 | A human being who suffers a fatal heart attack when out walking in a wood would not have been setting out to ‘ die alone ’ . |
| 22 | The local bands have not been altogether ousted ; some were taking part in the contests after playing and walking in a procession in the morning and playing at the sports in the afternoon . |
| 23 | When wet these trousers dry quickly in a warm room — quicker still if you 're walking in a warm breeze . |
| 24 | Several disposable types are available from pet shops , and are essential for dog owners where it is compulsory to clean up after their pets if they are walking in a public area . |
| 25 | Try to keep your dog walking in a straight line , so that it does not pull across you to reach another dog , because otherwise you might trip over the leash . |
| 26 | ‘ Lawrence and his contact walking in a quiet street . |
| 27 | But he could glimpse that the man was no longer standing but walking in a small circle , keeping level with the horse 's shoulder as he galloped . |
| 28 | Is she walking in a park ? |
| 29 | But before they start on their game , they signal that this is not to be a serious quarrel by walking in a stilted exaggerated fashion . |
| 30 | It performs a special dance , walking in a circle which it then bisects while vigorously waggling its abdomen . |