Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] getting [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most common difficulty found with hardware was that of coping with noisy lines and of getting through to the services . |
| 2 | If they had been chatting , no matter how lightly , she would have been so absorbed in carefully listening and in getting out a reply through a nervously constricted throat that she would n't have been able to enjoy this wonderful drive . |
| 3 | He or she had taken trouble over the arrangement of the facts and in getting in as much relevant information as possible . |
| 4 | Worrying about people 's comments instead of keeping calm and concentrating on the flying and on getting down safely is often the root cause of a bad landing . |
| 5 | This kind of drama for practice in expressing and communicating emotions is far removed from the functioning behaviour required in the game of drama , where the participants ' concentration is not on whether he or she is signalling an emotion but with getting on with solving whatever problem is to hand . |