Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks to the several hundred Young Guardian readers who wrote their accounts of Growing Up In the Eighties for the Outloud column . |
| 2 | By the mid-1970s our collective view was that , with a few notable exceptions , Soviet technology was on a distinctly inferior plane to that found in the major Western industrial countries and , moreover , had shown no signs of catching up in the previous 15–20 years . |
| 3 | Despite a boom in interest in the early '80s , with one hundred and fifty authorities considering contracting out in the years 1982/83 , only thirty-seven actually did so . |
| 4 | Of course , one of the advantages of waking up in the night in a sweat is that you tend to have your best ideas whilst failing to get back to sleep . |
| 5 | The main objectives of policy are , first , to enable the demand to be met in the right places , while preventing sites from springing up in the wrong places ; and , second , to allow caravan sites , where permitted , to be established on a permanent or long-term basis , in order to facilitate the provision of proper services and equipment and to allow the occupants reasonable security of tenure . |
| 6 | The effect is almost as though one were experiencing full immersion for the first time after years of paddling around in the shallows . |
| 7 | This meant a slightly longer , but more pleasant , train journey to London ; and it presented no problems about staying up in the evening , whereas with my school duties lunch was out of the question . |
| 8 | Having an extra wash tray to rinse your prints before going back in the dev. will keep it longer . |
| 9 | Is their failure to remember dreams on waking up in the morning because they " really " do n't dream , or is it because they fail to remember them ? |
| 10 | Another Ascot scorer , Baydon Star , has good prospects of following up in the Tom Masson Hurdle . |
| 11 | Locals tend to stick to the pleasures of eating out in the evening , but there are a few spots in town for night revels . |
| 12 | Both aircraft head-to-head at Farnborough were built in 1944 at the Oklahoma City plant , but beyond that they went very separate ways until meeting up in the UK in September , both toting turboprops . |
| 13 | On reconnaissance nights , the submarine had to use precious hours of moonless darkness while she charged her batteries before trimming down in the water with her saddle-tanks just awash , the slight swell breaking occasionally over the casing . |
| 14 | There are differing opinions on opting out in the Scottish Episcopal church , with backing from the local parish and the education board , but a possible objection from Michael Hare-Duke , bishop of Dunblane , Dunkeld and St Andrews . |
| 15 | Swail 's hopes of getting back in the match virtually disappeared when he lost the first frame of the final session . |