Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not a historical accident that the sports in which blacks were overrepresented compared to their proportion in the general population were those demanding little in the way of equipment or facilities . |
| 2 | ‘ Cept there 's more goin' on in the evenin 's with First Aid and the like . ’ |
| 3 | " So I was , sir , but I thought my bride had better see something of what 's goin' on in town before I take her back and bury her on the Moor . |
| 4 | As he made his way up , feeling like a schoolboy with skimped prep , his eye caught , with a start of surprise , the rotund shape of Mr Kronweiser , eyes darting suspiciously in all directions , working at a desk . |
| 5 | Now he squatted , toad-like , by Berowne 's body , his hands hanging loosely in front of him , palely disembodied . |
| 6 | There was the largest hornets ' nest he had ever seen , hanging right in his path . |
| 7 | Adam ran crashing downhill in a narrow dark ride , almost into the arms of a man who came striding suddenly out of the bushes , sword in hand . |
| 8 | WORLD 500cc motorcycle champion Wayne Rainey is critical in hospital after crashing badly in the Italian Grand Prix at Misano . |
| 9 | Other behavioural strategies included eating slowly in a room away from the kitchen , preparing all food thoroughly before starting to eat , rather than eating standing up during cooking . |
| 10 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 11 | Yet competing successfully in Europe means competing according to Community rules . |
| 12 | It 's a taste that seems to be catching on in Japan , replacing a traditional fancy for whale meat , which is now priced well out of the range of most Japanese pockets . |
| 13 | But he despaired of the idea catching on in England : ‘ We could never , I fear , get the youths of this country to go to all this trouble to perfect their play . ’ |
| 14 | Another powerful reason why improved mud buildings are not catching on in the tropical Third World is that for poor families , housing is not the first priority . |
| 15 | Somehow I ca n't see it catching on in the way Play-Doh did . |
| 16 | Now the idea is catching on in Britain , so Lydia Ascroft says have a bash at massage and look forward to a sexier , slinkier you for the long , hot summer ! |
| 17 | Yamaha staff will be making a return visit to the region to discover how the Japanese style of music teaching is catching on in the North-East . |
| 18 | ‘ Also I ca n't see cafes catching on in the North , we have n't got the weather to sit outside . ’ |
| 19 | WHEN it comes to home decorating , the colours that find favour in Louisville , Kentucky , could soon be catching on in Rio de Janeiro and Montreal . |
| 20 | A crossed legged position may be adopted if you are accustomed to this position , otherwise sit in a straight-backed chair with your feet firmly on the ground and your hands resting loosely in your lap . |
| 21 | NCR Corp has finally abandoned the traditional mainframe business , driven out of it by another company that is hanging on in there by its fingernails . |
| 22 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |
| 23 | Just the two of them hanging on in that decaying old house , ’ Schellenberg said . |
| 24 | Nowadays , struggling on in the name of Islamic socialism , Algeria is a place of austerity , one of the few countries on earth where you ca n't get Coca-Cola . |
| 25 | In the case of Owen and Huxley there was a complex relationship , for Owen had been almost his father-in-science ; but Owen had other serious reasons for seeing little in Darwinism . |
| 26 | Wages were pitiful and despite recovering somewhat in certain sectors in the last years before the war , they remained very low . |
| 27 | He tottered away across the bath to Jazz and Bean , leaving Hoomey clinging to the rail , gazing down in amazement at the distance he had swum . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , in her mind , she had visions of the Brownings rattling along in high good humour with all manner of beautiful vistas to right and left as they trotted to Arezzo and she could hear the conversation and Pen 's excited laughter . |
| 29 | Only in areas remote from this authority , as in isolated mining settlements , or where the state was itself weak , as in the United States , could bourgeois masters exercise that sort of direct rule , whether by command over the local forces of public authority , by private armies of Pinkerton men , or by banding together in armed groups of ‘ vigilantes ’ to maintain ‘ order ’ . |
| 30 | Over the last three years , the Stattauto ( " car alternative " ) scheme has involved 1,800 German families , banding together in groups of up to 30 people each to buy a car , which is then rented out among the group at the rate of US$2 per hour — substantially cheaper than commercial rates . |