Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the skilled operator establishes in her own consciousness a network of alarm signals which go off when the train of thought starts chugging along in a dangerous direction . |
| 2 | I do n't know how or why it worked , but I stopped waking up in a cold sweat . |
| 3 | Schools went in for a lot of physical education , ‘ drill ’ , which involved jumping about in a drafty hall with your skirt tucked into your knickers if you were female . |
| 4 | A second or two later , everything came crashing down in a big heap on the railway line below . |
| 5 | Normally to be seen driving around in a funereal Daimler — dwarfing the island 's other cars ( including the BMW of Premier Sir John Swan ) — the Governor also dons his uniform and takes to the streets in a horse-drawn landau several times a year . |
| 6 | Natural gas supplies will begin running down in the twenty-first century . |
| 7 | He requires covering up in a strongly-run race to utilise his formidable finishing acceleration to maximum effect , and connections have taken the precaution of declaring a pacemaker in Wharf . |
| 8 | These entail grubbing around in the murky bottom silt of a muddy pond for invertebrates . |
| 9 | Disconnected , their instrument of memory fails to record anything of those common night-time moments that preceded lying down in the marital bed . |
| 10 | There were several hundred birds and , because we had rounded a corner and surprised them , they panicked and went rushing off in a tight bunch , making an accurate count impossible . |
| 11 | The government 's initial failure to hold spending down in the early 1980s was not for lack of trying . |
| 12 | Some 18 companies originally bid for contract , with Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , IBM , ICL Plc , IQSoft and VTSoft losing out in the later stages . |
| 13 | Some 18 companies originally bid for contract , with Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , IBM , ICL Plc , IQSoft and VTSoft losing out in the later stages . |
| 14 | He could hear people shouting in the distance and knew that they had gone chasing off in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | She remembered waking up in a long room filled with covered beds ; knocking a uniformed man to the ground ; taking his gun and running . |
| 16 | It means getting up in the early hours to be ready to board a coach at around 6.30am that will transport them to the South Coast , then bring them back again , arriving home at around midnight . |
| 17 | Do I come running out in the first ten seconds ? |
| 18 | Most probably he got waffling on in the Royal Oak and that . |
| 19 | He 'd accept anything that did n't involve stumbling about in a greasy morass of railway tracks . |