Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] in [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These three members of the Procellariidae family have one thing in common : they are all ‘ night birds ’ , only coming in to the screes and grassy slopes of the cliffs under cover of darkness to change places with their mate on the single egg , deep within a burrow , or later to feed the young . |
| 2 | As Crawford , Winner and the ten-person film unit prepared to start work in the War Memorial Gallery , not exactly blending in with the surroundings , those on the floor of the Stock Exchange looked up , started screaming and shouting , and threw paper darts . |
| 3 | There I was welcomed by Molly Braithwaite who demonstrated Medau movement and I was soon joining in with the others present . |
| 4 | Afterwards I sit with him in the room at the back , the late afternoon light still coming in through the windows . |
| 5 | Here goes Kingsley Black again getting in behind the defenders but he rather over played his first touch then . |
| 6 | Her UNO opponents accused her of once again caving in to the Sandinistas . |
| 7 | Since entrances were not screened and materials were poor — many of them one brick thick or built in pisé , a version of mud — they were cold and cheerless , with rain actually driving in through the walls . |