Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Creatures that bestride the dividing line between amphibians and reptiles and between mammals and protomammals , are constantly turning up in the fossil record . |
| 2 | As the lava cools down further , to a dull red , more and more chilled fragments remain on the surface , and these small particles soon agglomerate together , forming progressively larger plates or rafts which cover the surface of the flow , the hot lava itself only glowing through in the cracks between rafts . |
| 3 | Erm , I 'm slightly more concerned though about security in this building and in some of our other main buildings and it brought it home very starkly to me and I 'm sure to all members of the board when we arrived at our meeting a few weeks ago and spent er over two hours standing , we did n't stay out , more or less standing out in the street and . |
| 4 | Others were already wriggling around in the Alice 's undercarriage , zeroing in on the inlets . |
| 5 | ‘ People are not normally wandering about in the bush at night . ’ |
| 6 | We were soon splashing about in the surf washing off weeks of dirt accumulated in the slit trenches . |
| 7 | I think all that stuff is just lying down in the face of the mass media . |
| 8 | Tractor development is n't just going on in the west either . |
| 9 | I heard it certainly I heard it just going on in the car . |
| 10 | I found in Northumberland , the worst bit was it was just going out in the cold to the shower . |
| 11 | Ward glanced in the rear-view mirror , then all round , finally pulling up in the middle of the road . |
| 12 | Several of the photographers and columnists were already drifting in in the hope of an early drink ( they 'd be unlucky — we could n't serve drinks before twelve ) . |
| 13 | We 're not having a party we 're just gon na , they 're just coming round in the afternoon to play with you and we can have a drink and |
| 14 | And they were just coming round in the summer . |
| 15 | A police photographer was just finishing up in the corner of the room where Doyle had fallen . |
| 16 | James Green , right , is twenty and is just starting out in the advertising business . |
| 17 | Mike Gatting presented , and in the pre-match interviews he stressed that it was very , very hot , and I swear Gatt must have lost a stone just standing out in the middle talking about the pitch . |
| 18 | Experts say that babies under six months should be kept out of the sun altogether and children should wear total block sunscreens , even when just playing out in the summer at home . |
| 19 | And secondly , the defeat of the last major challenge to the system associated with the overdetermined name of ‘ 1968 ’ but finally petering out in the mid-1970s . |
| 20 | For a repetitive task there may be comparatively little going on in the mind which emerges at the level of consciousness . |
| 21 | ‘ Cept there 's more goin' on in the evenin 's with First Aid and the like . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You poor thing , ’ said Moynihan , promptly jogging off in the direction of Hove . |
| 23 | It 's like living back in the flat . |
| 24 | While people down south are still lying out in the sun and enjoying their holidays , up here we have to start planning well ahead for the long winter to come . |
| 25 | However , some natural change has gone on and is still going on in the country , and physical changes need to be anticipated in any local study . |
| 26 | The Persians had been driven from Greece not many years before the temple was begun , and the fight to free Greeks from them was still going on in the east . |
| 27 | Montrose House would of course not be the only cost-effective alternative but it does give some idea of the scandalous waste of resources which is still going on in the semi-State sector . |
| 28 | ‘ And are you still going down in the starsuit ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ And are you still going down in the starsuit ? ’ |
| 30 | I 'm always waking up in the night . |