Example sentences of "[coord] be [v-ing] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time I come here I begin to worry that I have somehow crossed into another stream and am sailing back in the opposite direction . |
| 2 | People had been very cold and were sloshing about in the mud from the day before . |
| 3 | She read it idiotically at least three times , until she 'd convinced herself there was no hidden psychological message in the bare statement of fact , and then realised that someone had just come in the front door of the flat and was moving around in the hall . |
| 4 | Hurt was celebrating an award which had been won by his TV series The Storyteller and was staggering around in a drunken haze when he turned on the paparazzi and yelled , ‘ Those bastards have been winding me up all night . |
| 5 | She had gained the opposite bank and was poking about in a great drifting mass of torn grass and brushwood . |
| 6 | The moon , I thought briefly , had come down from the sky and was dancing about in the wood not far ahead . |
| 7 | It has been suggested further that corporate ambitions extend beyond influencing the detail of regulation , with Reagan for instance claiming that ‘ … corporations are not only much concerned to protect their own immediate legislative interests , but are reaching out in an attempt to create a business-oriented political and social framework within which all public decision-making would be constrained . |