Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second or two later , everything came crashing down in a big heap on the railway line below . |
| 2 | The greatest human impact has been in Uruguay , where 600–2000 franciscanas have been drowning annually in a gill-net fishery for sharks in recent years . |
| 3 | As she reached the foot of the narrow stair Penry emerged from the kitchen , his black eyebrows knitting together in a daunting frown at the sight of her . |
| 4 | To quote the Federation 's annual report for 1948–49 , ‘ one purpose of the Federation ’ is ‘ that of bringing together in a friendly atmosphere the members of different Branches and Groups and thereby strengthening the unity and spirit of the WEA in Essex ’ . |
| 5 | Here the skilled operator establishes in her own consciousness a network of alarm signals which go off when the train of thought starts chugging along in a dangerous direction . |
| 6 | Cooling off in a Scottish loch : riders from the Castle Riding Centre , Argyllshire . |
| 7 | This nearly always results in drifting further back without much gain of height and ending up in a worse situation than before . |
| 8 | When they hit the ground , they may stop abruptly , embedding themselves still glowing , fuming and sizzling slightly in the loose ash ; or they may bounce off , to leap down the steep sides of the cone in a series of great bounds , developing a rapid spin as they do so , and whirring downhill like cannonballs , ending up in a rattling shower of small stones at the bottom . |
| 9 | They are mopping up in a southerly direction . |
| 10 | The squawking continued for a moment before dying out in a final gurgle as Rev. Levitt recited the prescribed blessing . |
| 11 | But there are also thousands of people walking around in a semi-drugged state day after day because they are in the habit of taking tablets , whether prescribed or bought over the counter . |
| 12 | One or two of the old films are now on CD video because they are important documents of certain artists , but the way we are filming and editing the films I am now making is completely different We have learnt a very great deal in these years and so we forget about the older films just as you would n't dream of driving around in a thirty-year-old car . |
| 13 | To avoid being recognised , he took to driving everywhere in a closed cab . |
| 14 | Assembling quietly in a public house for our third meeting attracted the nucleus of ‘ ad hoc ’ Committee members . |
| 15 | As for the gossip , though , DisInformation was eavesdropping recently in a little wine bar it knows somewhere in the heart of the South 's Thatcherland . |
| 16 | The perfect weather for camping — a still , warm night with a gigantic pastel-coloured moon reflecting dreamily in a glassy loch — is coincidentally the perfect night for the midges to chew your ass off . |
| 17 | ( 3 ) In other words , although farm modernisation policies have actively encouraged non-viable or older farmers to retire from farming , many in the poorer areas have not done so , living on in a traditional way for extremely low returns . |
| 18 | They are followed by people acting neutrally in a principled way , i.e. , because they believe that there is a reason not to help or hinder one side more than the other . |
| 19 | Our interest is in political theories that require neutrality , i.e. , that are followed by acting neutrally in a principled way . |
| 20 | The band , forced to play covers of Beatles songs and American country music ( the staple diet of Rhodesian radio ) , immediately switched to traditional African songs written specifically about celebrating freedom and living together in a new country . |
| 21 | There is also some evidence that couples are living together in a stable relationship without being married , having a child , and then getting married later . |
| 22 | For example , the ‘ village community ’ can signify nothing more than a type of settlement — a small number of people living together in a rural location usually in a nucleated pattern . |
| 23 | The accused and that person were acting together in a dishonest enterprise . |
| 24 | She enjoyed the discipline of eating them without butter — the idea of keeping pats of butter overnight in a bedroom was abhorrent to her , incompatible with her picture of herself , swansdown on her bedjacket , broderie anglaise at her wrists , nibbling away in a leisured manner , her widow 's weeds for the moment forgotten . |
| 25 | But referee Ed Morrison 's leniency led to bad blood spilling over in a six-man brawl as Richards looked for revenge . |
| 26 | Many of the players , as we have seen , had been wandering already in a nether world of two-dimensional heroes , villains , adventurers and fall-guys . |
| 27 | It is particularly vulnerable to claims that it is acting abusively in a particular market , and must avoid discriminating between its competitors or using its market dominance in a manner which can be construed as unfair or intended to eliminate a competitor or competition . |
| 28 | Waiting for his break , he supported himself with a series of odd jobs : driving limos , handing out cigarette samples and even dressing up in a giant chicken costume to promote a fast-food franchise . |
| 29 | For some prey , it becomes a matter of safety in numbers , with musk oxen forming up in a defensive circle to face a pack of marauding wolves , like a wagon train defending itself against attacking Indians . |
| 30 | The possible phonemic function of each allophonic description found by HWIM 's Acoustic Phonetic Recognizer was scored by looking up in a long term confusion matrix the vector of 71 phoneme labels that could be associated with the segment 's feature description . |