Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adv prt] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | be ready to make informed guesses , and to correct themselves in the light of additional information , eg by reading ahead or looking back in the text ; |
| 2 | He said that if I did n't do it he 'd stop me having baths or going out in the cellar . |
| 3 | And i if the man in the field had got a grudge against a bloke who was stacking i or taking off in the stack yard he could make life hell . |
| 4 | All those boarded-up shops and only old people about , dreaming on doorsteps or creeping along in the sun . |
| 5 | Protect your hair from changing colour or drying out in the sun by using a hair sunscreen with conditioners . |
| 6 | A happier fate than ending up in the cooking pot at Berkeley Castle . |
| 7 | A good tight-fitting cap or hat is useful since there is nothing worse than groping about in the dark to recover a wind-blown hat . |
| 8 | Hazel realized that until they were rested they would all be safer where they were than stumbling along in the open , with no strength left to run from an enemy . |
| 9 | When voices started rising and violence seemed inevitable , Kalchu told me that it would n't be resolved for hours and , rather than waiting around in the cold on the off-chance of getting some meat , we might as well set out for home . |
| 10 | Connections of Laurel Queen , Walking The Plank and Buzzards Bellbuoy the trio to sneak in at the bottom of the race will have to send them a percentage if ending up in the money . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not surprised ! ’ the other girl agreed sympathetically , having just heard from Laura the full story of her traumatic outing , which had culminated in her being arrested and ending up in the New York police station . |
| 12 | Beautiful cover showing a window opening into the past for this time travel tale about an Oxford student stepping back into the Middle Ages to finish her thesis and ending up in the middle of the plague . |
| 13 | After she had washed and dressed in warm cord trousers , leather boots and a thick sweater , she this time took the precaution of collecting her anorak before going out to her car and driving off in the direction of Great Yarmouth . |
| 14 | Er sometimes I , I 'm , I get a lot , a lot of things on , I have at the moment , an awful lot of things on , so everything is you know getting in a p a tight path and fast , so I deliberately thoroughly enjoy taking my dog and wandering along in the park . |
| 15 | Maureen West says her daughter is still having nightmares and waking up in the middle of the night . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd always had a fantasy about living with an artist and waking up in the morning and him standing there with a canvas . |
| 17 | The third and clinching round in the drive to sharpen the point of sale , goes to the staff . |
| 18 | Jill 's life revolves round them both , and there have been times when she has even had difficulty getting to the shops , let alone keeping up her own interests and going out in the evenings . |
| 19 | ‘ Come on ; do n't just lie there , ’ Andy said matter-of-factly , leaving his cock alone and lying back in the grass , putting his arm behind his head and staring up at the sky . |
| 20 | In the early days at least , being your own boss means sacrificing your social life , forgoing a salary and traipsing out in the rain to post your own letters . |
| 21 | Young people mostly ; some were singing and prancing along in the middle of the roadway . |
| 22 | but he , he 's at that age now where I could have another kid and look after it quite easily if I had one , but I do n't wan na go through , not the pregnancy , but I do n't want to go through all the babies and getting up in the night and , one that 'll come out six months old |
| 23 | He even put the woman 's view to a certain extent : ‘ Miriam knew that their marriage was dead , but took comfort in the old rituals of going to bed together and getting up in the morning . ’ |
| 24 | The solution is not to stop training , racing and getting up in the morning , but to make a few subtle adaptations , like allowing ourselves rest days we should have given ourselves years ago . |
| 25 | She was out every evening , sometimes staying away all night and coming back in the afternoon only to tart herself up for the next evening away . |
| 26 | For fifteen years I 've spent much of my spare time scrabbling and grovelling about in the mud and gravels of our upland waterways . |
| 27 | He searched the rest of the flat , the bathroom especially , removing the wooden panels that covered the pipes , and poking around in the cistern . |
| 28 | I remember opening my hood , disconnecting my oxygen and R/T connections and standing up in the cockpit . |
| 29 | Billy and Mary were fooling and rolling about in the sunbeams on the edge of the clearing . |
| 30 | Running down , or , as the current euphemism has it , rationalizing a business , while keeping the enthusiasm , loyalty and commitment of one 's people , and fighting back in the marketplace , is one of the most difficult of industrial situations , and certainly separates the sheep from the goats in a management sense . |