Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've had businesses and lots of youth groups contacting me extremely interested in going out in the boat . |
| 2 | We are just under one inch taller on getting up in the morning than we are on going to bed at night . |
| 3 | For his purpose they had to become accustomed to going about in the fields and the wood . |
| 4 | They grow fast when transferred into trays or pots in the conservatory , greenhouse , cold frame or on a window ledge , prior to setting out in the garden a week or two later . |
| 5 | In the wild clownfish seldom stray more than a metre or so from their anemone and are therefore good aquarium subjects , finding no difficultly in settling down in the confines of the average home system . |
| 6 | Mr Justice Drake used this power to full in summing up in the Donovan case , warning the jurors that they should not think they had to ‘ fix sums with lots of noughts on the end because it 's fashionable ’ . |
| 7 | Eastwood admitted : ‘ I was upset at missing out in the World Cup final and really do want to get back on to the international scene as quickly as possible . |