Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] in [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , you have probably broken previous weight-loss diets because of social pressures , such as eating in a restaurant , or eating in a friend 's house , where their encouragement , " go on it wo n't hurt " , and your response , " just this once , " are the first fatal steps to weight gain . |
| 2 | Throwing my head back and laughing in the man 's face was not , on reflection , the correct or polite response . |
| 3 | But Deana 's persecution , continued more subtly and covertly as the days went by , had left its sting , and she began to wonder if living in the nurses ' home was really the right thing . |
| 4 | Very occasionally he also made designs to be carried out by others — and if acting in an architect 's supervisory capacity only he would charge the 5 per cent fee which was normal at the time — while at Ditchley he was , remarkably , employed as both ‘ surveyor ’ , receiving his 5 per cent , and mason contractor . |
| 5 | Yeah because I do n't think anything will will work unless it 's what the people who are living in the circumstances and living in the situation erm , if it 's not going to relevant to their lives then , you 're wasting the money . |
| 6 | ‘ She had a splendid time visiting the Radio Show and sitting in the Mayor 's parlour . |
| 7 | Invariably the tension relieving behaviour of geriatric anxiety is howling and barking in the owner 's absence — completely out of character with the dog that they have lived with for 13 or so years . |
| 8 | Behind the solitary constable was a vast army of doppelgänger wheeling and cavorting in the city 's Sefton Park , ready and available to reinforce the power of the patrol officer , a force to be reckoned with for those who might dispute the territory of the street . |
| 9 | The American Stock Exchange duly announced that it was delisting Wang Laboratories Inc 's Class B and C common stocks but trading in the company 's debentures will continue . |
| 10 | Then , suddenly and unexpectedly , in the spring of 1933 my uncle collapsed lapsed and died while walking in a friend 's garden . |
| 11 | Thus , in the US insider trading may be defined as trading in an issuer 's securities ( or communicating or ‘ tipping ’ ) while in possession of material non-public information relating to the issuer 's securities or the market for those securities . |
| 12 | By the time we conclude our comparison of fabliau and exemplum at the end of this book we shall face a very similar formulation of the difference between the two as lying in the fabliau 's divergence from the normal modes of exemplum , which may in itself be funny , rather than in an all-preceding intention to be funny . |
| 13 | In the foreign ministry , as in Brussels , the line against Mr Brunner 's campaign is that it is a slight joke by somebody who , when working in the EC 's headquarters , ‘ spoke no foreign languages properly and never understood how the Community works ’ . |