Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It felt fragile at first , but it was as if I had finally come up for air after nearly drowning in a pool of lies . |
| 2 | and that the learning situation itself needs to be examined for its possible contribution to children 's learning difficulties , instead of merely looking in the child for causes . |
| 3 | The heroes of both these plays arrive upon the scene in a dramatic manner — adventurously entering through a window instead of prosaically walking in the door . |
| 4 | TI blames itself for telling the newsletter that that would be the ‘ average price for 1993 ’ because it forgot to factor in the industry practice of constantly repricing in the face of better yields . |
| 5 | He admitted three charges of illegally camping in a lay-by and two charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice by giving a false name to police . |
| 6 | Otherwise every scrum would have ended with the scrum-halves and both sets of forwards wallowing in the mire with little chance of the ball every seeing daylight . |
| 7 | Holiday memories of dinner for two complete with bottle of wine for the princely sum of a fiver are , alas , no guide to the cost of actually living in a country — especially if the holiday in question took place five years ago or more . |
| 8 | ‘ Quite a difference from actually lying in the river . ’ |
| 9 | This subtly psychological approach , no doubt based on much headbanging in the advertising agency , was nonetheless open to parody ( see pages 82–3 ) . |
| 10 | It had been sold in December by McCloy to an American widow who , having changed her mind without ever living in the place , had returned it to the agent 's hands and departed to spend the summer in Sweden . |
| 11 | Without even glancing in the mirror , he crossed the inner and middle lanes into the fast lane and , in fewer than ten seconds the speedometer needle was registering one hundred and fifteen miles an hour , but Mark was oblivious of the fact . |
| 12 | I particularly thank my hon. Friend and his colleagues for recently calling in the Hillside and Brookshill development in my district so as to protect still further the local green belt land . |
| 13 | By deliberately pulling in the sail too tight over the back of the board you can try sailing sideways or even backwards . |
| 14 | The stage was by now swimming in a couple of feet of water . |
| 15 | God has led them to believe it was rational , but now apparently he has cheated them by unfairly slipping in a mystery . |
| 16 | Do they see erm , if , if they migrate to the city in the urban areas then they realize they wo n't get a job , and have a job straight away , er well paying job but by actually living in the area they would and taking in at a job and they get a lot of contacts and then eventually after a period of time they job . |