Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a pressing , gently swaying wall of vegetation in a thousand shades of green . |
| 2 | Orton was the longest serving prisoner of conscience in Africa . |
| 3 | When they were once more walking side by side in the dusk , Julia said gently : |
| 4 | My hon. Friend is also right that business wants regulations kept in bounds , with decent regulations so that markets are fair and open , but it does not want the masses of red tape that the Opposition are always recommending day after day in the House . |
| 5 | They watched the horses follow the tractor round the ever narrowing stand of corn in the centre of the field , and the tinkers who came to get work stood by with dogs and shot the rabbits that came surging out . |
| 6 | The Herbarium photocopier was still giving cause for concern in respect of a lack of information and instruction on its use . |
| 7 | Ordained in 1879 in Ripon Cathedral , he served his curacy at St Katherine 's Parish Church , Northampton , before later becoming Vicar of Swadlincote in Derbyshire . |
| 8 | Based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr ( Subject of a celebrated prosecution in 1967 under the Obscene Publications Act ) , LAST EXIT is a tough , often harrowing film about life in a rough working class district of New York during the Korean War . |
| 9 | On Nov. 15 former Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams was put on probation for two years , ordered to devote up to 100 hours to community service and fined a token $50 for unlawfully witholding information from Congress in the Iran-contra scandal [ see p. 38521 ] . |