Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm all I 'm sure about is that there was this change going on in the rurar econ |
| 2 | there is some change going on in the rural economy and perhaps he does want to interpret it as er a revolution which the communists can actually get involved in so he 's writing his paper and saying look , this is happening it may not be a rel revolution , but it |
| 3 | Yeah , music we 've normally got some noise going on in the background . |
| 4 | ‘ One thing 's sure — you wo n't be spending part of this evening mopping up in the kitchen ! ’ |
| 5 | Now this is a a British lorry coming down in the offside lane , cos it 's only two lanes . |
| 6 | That does n't mean you disregard adult commitments and disregard that there is some really shitty stuff going on in the world right now . |
| 7 | I do n't recall ever seeing a big beardy climber lying down in the heather having a tantrum , or a party of Outward Bound students holding their heads and crying into their gaiters , so one is forced to conclude that I am alone in my hill hysteria . |
| 8 | It happened that the dog was silenced just as her last remark emerged , and over his body , flattened now to the sheet where he lay panting , the old woman sitting up in the bed flashed her a look . |
| 9 | could n't tell you but er these cars turned up erm , there were n't no hearse and off they went and er course when I went up the garden to get some washing in Claire came up and er anyway she said er about Mr and I said well I assume it was him , I saw Mrs and she starts on about this dog barking out in the garden again ! |
| 10 | If you 've got some dust floating round in the nothing you would see specks of dust . |
| 11 | These could show some activity going on in the garden — someone weeding a flowerbed , say , or children playing in the sand-pit . |
| 12 | My Defence Manual , which contains things like maps of the island with the caches marked , likely attack routes , a summary of tactics , a list of weapons I have or might make , includes within this last category quite a few unpleasant things like trip-wires and snares set a body-length away from a concealed broken bottle sticking up in the grass , electrically detonated mines made from pipe-bombs and small nails , all buried in the sand , and a few interesting , if unlikely , secret weapons , like frisbees with razors embedded in the edge . |
| 13 | The poem is thus curiously " displaced " , a late Victorian work turning up in the crisp 1930s , the Auden decade . |
| 14 | The carrack was brought to anchor in the Bay of Cascais two evenings later , and after an uncomfortable night rolling about in the confused waters of that harbour , Sara rose early and went on deck to find that a thick mist had descended . |
| 15 | He was too clever not to realize that harbouring the Shah increased the danger of Muslim fundamentalism gaining round in the kingdom . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , when a stag mates with a hind , he first scrapes a hole in the ground Then he gets her head and shoulders down the hole , leaving her rear end sticking up in the air so he can sort of get at her easier like . ’ |
| 17 | She turned and surveyed the room that was always hers when she visited Thomas , its architectural simplicity , the reassuring certainty of the heavy polished wood , the playful cubes and rectangles of the little Feininger villages which she had spent so much time dreaming over in the past . |
| 18 | She sat for a while , the inevitable cigarette burning out in the ashtray . |
| 19 | Croupy , choking , violent , dry cough with hoarse barking coming on in the night after being chilled in the day ; intense febrile excitement . |
| 20 | When Philip was alone in the wood he imagined all sorts of things about the planes , that they were enemy planes bombing Thirkett , that they were on reconnaissance flights spying , that they were looking for him : a crashed pilot hiding out in the wood . |
| 21 | Only sheets of crumpled waste-paper blowing about in the wind — looking like forlorn tumble-weed . |
| 22 | ‘ He did write to that American professor that Boz ‘ disappears and presently emerges from a bathing machine , and may be seen — a kind of salmon-coloured porpoise splashing about in the ocean ’ . ’ |
| 23 | If that was n't enough , what in heaven 's name is that lethal figure running around in the hold , like some latter-day Frankenstein 's monster ? ’ |
| 24 | Michael Holly was an unremarkable boy growing up in the suburbs of south-west London . |
| 25 | I would have no difficulty whatever in going on any hustings and waxing eloquent about foul sewage coming up in the wrong places . |
| 26 | The evening was misty and moist , with tendrils of thicker fog swirling around in the night air . |
| 27 | So someone suddenly said , ‘ There 's a really terrific game going on in the square in Granada , ’ and we were just waiting and then Brynner said , ‘ Of course , I 'm the South American callot champion . ’ |
| 28 | In the north can be found lush greenery standing out in the bottom of the valleys that carve down through the mountains , and fields of banana plantations standing against the backdrop of Mount Teide , the island 's dormant volcano . |
| 29 | Wednesday I 've got that woman coming round in the morning , take Oliver to nursery , pop round Janet 's and then pick Oliver up from nursery . |
| 30 | Researchers now believe the phenolic flavonoids , by acting as anti-oxidants , prevent the damaging fat building up in the first place . |