Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Change can come about in educational institutions without the change necessarily centring on the curriculum in the first instance , although the curriculum may subsequently be affected . |
| 2 | She was a large , cheerful lady with bad varicose ulcers which she was constantly banging against the furniture in her house on non-Varicose Vein Clinic days . |
| 3 | Athelstan sat looking at her in wonderment , constantly marvelling at the difference in women , contrasting this hag to the beauty of Lady Isabella . |
| 4 | One of them , it was pointed out to him , was the great ex-Soviet chess player , Korchnoi , who is apparently training with the team in order to reach maximum physical fitness for his world title challenge to his arch-rival , the darling of the Soviets , Karpov . |
| 5 | Yep , now nowadays erm they 've got the best , I mean the equipment is excellent , er it came in my time erm my predecessor 's time and it 's been carried on now and new developments have come in , erm and with , of course techniques in , not only dealing with the chemicals in , in making safe afterwards which is twice as complicated I think , you know the decontamination side , the clearing up , the protecting of the environment from toxic chemicals er which we 've all heard about in newspapers , and read reports and seen it on television , these , these accidents up and down the world . |
| 6 | But then the argument would apply to other words in that context which had less bearing on the purpose in reading . |
| 7 | There she was , sitting forlornly in a corner and , unlike all the other dogs , making no noise , just gazing at the floor in a philosophical way . |
| 8 | I wish it was yesterday , I wish I was just climbing over the rocks in dear comfortable Mrs McPhee who does n't mind getting wet and lets me breathe — ’ |
| 9 | Barry Tuckett drove smoothly and quietly , not contributing to the conversation in the back seat , which was n't really a conversation but Bernice 's potted biography of Billy . |
| 10 | erm Darwin says in the origin , and I 'm sorry I ca n't read it to you , but I was desperately looking for the quotation in the origin before I can and I could n't find it but I assure you it 's there erm in which he remarks that in all probability the periods of time during which species are not changing is probably very large compared with those periods when change is taking place . |
| 11 | Among the medical teams , a doctor who 's husband is already serving with the UN in Croatia . |
| 12 | Billy , too , found he had AIDS , finally succumbing to the disease in May 1990 . |
| 13 | Oh I 'm not going in the car in the fog . |
| 14 | You could perhaps team up with somebody else if you wanted to , so if you see someone and we 're just going through the order in which they appear . |
| 15 | But I know that er the one or two people who told me that they 're going , er we were just going to the service in the church and then |
| 16 | Parents need to be helped to understand the problem and not punish the child for not getting to the lavatory in time ( Schmitt 1982a ) . |
| 17 | Some parents feel that the problem centres on the child 's not getting to the lavatory in time ( Berg et al . |
| 18 | I am not saying to the consumer in all of us , ‘ You must eat less , drive less , enjoy life less . ’ |
| 19 | ULSTER drivers already reeling from the jump in the cost of motoring imposed by the Budget are facing another rise in car park charges . |
| 20 | Just below the glen the valley widens out into what is known as Rocky Valley , finally dropping off the map in rugged cliffs with a fall of some fifty or so feet down to the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 21 | I fully support it , and I believe it is an option for those schools who have Local Education Authorities that are not progressing in the way in which the parents think they should . |
| 22 | Already cringing under the hand in her hair , she suddenly felt terrifyingly weak . |
| 23 | They seemed to be positioned at random as if the guests had been playing a game with them and not sitting around the table in an orderly fashion . |
| 24 | The following day , with the barricades still in place but support for the insurrection eroding , de Gaulle was already talking about the crisis in the past tense . |
| 25 | He was just rolling round the floor in agony . |
| 26 | We disappear into the darkness , where nobody can see that we 're not rolling around the floor in paroxysms of ecstasy . |
| 27 | He was just thinking about the boy in the Post Office when he fell instantly into a deep sleep . |
| 28 | I detest the writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán who , unconsciously referring to the horse in ‘ Guernica ’ , asserts that Spanish museums , devoid of works of art , ‘ prefer the biggest donkey even if it is lame ’ ; and the sculptor Jorge Oteiza , champion of the Casón , who fears that his works will shrivel on contact with the bogeyman that is ‘ Guernica ’ . |
| 29 | This kind of ‘ motivational congruence between practitioners and clients ’ was generally missing from the studies in the first wave of effectiveness research , they suggest ( p. 338 ) . |
| 30 | And erm you could see a long distance with it like that you know , especially if you could see a fox from er about a mile and a half , you could see right going along the rocks in the mountains . |