Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [adv prt] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah that 's a nice er , slot , were you looking to go out in the garden ? |
| 2 | Obviously there 's a lot of sterilizing going on in the meantime and all this . |
| 3 | I have to use sleeping tablets to help me sleep at night because I 'm dreading getting up in the morning in case anything 's happened further . |
| 4 | Sun 's warm and cuddly alliance with AT&T , the original cause of the bloody Unix wars , has now turned almost 180 degrees with Sun looking increasing out in the cold . |
| 5 | In my view our fellow Members , who lived with us cheek by jowl , were fully aware of my strengths and weaknesses and were unlikely to be impressed by pictures of me on their TV screens dressed in a striped apron and pretending to wash up in the kitchen , as had happened during the Tory leadership election . |
| 6 | Before the meeting , you know at the moment John Major is in Moscow , erm before that meeting there 'll have been much work done by the officials on briefing papers , on trying to identify the potential issues that are going to come up in the meeting , there 'll have been a lot of background work that would be similar er to patterns of relationships between various departments erm in any process of decision making . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm terribly afraid it 's going to come down in the marshland . |
| 8 | Buzz found herself lying face up in the snow , in great pain , unable to move : as helpless as a black beetle flipped on to its back . |
| 9 | But five days after he moved in he was found by staff horribly scalded across his back and chest lying face up in the bath . |
| 10 | The body was lying face up in the rain . |
| 11 | On the page opposite there is a cartoon of Pissed dressed up in a suit lying face down in the gutter clutching a bottle of lager , and Mickey Aspel coming out from under a manhole cover saying ‘ George Best ! |
| 12 | It was wholly predictable , then , that at about 8.50 on the morning of Monday , March 17 , I was lying face down in the grammar school dirt with 30 jeering first formers on my back . |
| 13 | So that would be the argument against other schools even attempting to opt out in the Oxfordshire area ? |
| 14 | The guidelines for interviewing laid down in the Market Research Society Code of Conduct should be adopted where relevant . |
| 15 | Are you going to finish off in the kid 's room ? |
| 16 | Duncan hoped that the drink was n't going to end up in the cockpit . |
| 17 | But they 're , they 're the gov they 're going to end up in the government . |
| 18 | After watching a few people jumping and getting caught up in the excitement and atmosphere , I decided I would love to have a shot , much to the family 's amazement and Sandy 's amusement . |
| 19 | You said something — about getting caught up in the action — |
| 20 | I was getting caught up in the rat race and thin round the edges spiritually , when the Lord stepped in and reminded me of a promise He made before we left Kent . |
| 21 | There was no immediate sign of an answer , but after Creggan had given up any hope of a reply and was looking at the path lights beginning to come on in the Park outside the Zoo there was a subtle shift of talons in Slorne 's cage , a gentle shift of wings , the swiftest of meek glances , and Creggan , too late to catch the look full on , yet sensed that in her mute way Slorne was saying ‘ Yes , oh yes , you were right to predict her return ’ This knowledge that another eagle there believed his prediction had been right gave Creggan comfort in those first weeks in the Cages . |
| 22 | But he always leaves it as if he is n't expecting to come back in the morning . " |
| 23 | Like getting wrapped up in the Masai , getting wrapped up in Indirect Rule was not inherently a passive occupation ; it seems in retrospect extraordinary that something to which so much energy was in fact devoted should ever have been perceived as a sign of imperial decrepitude . |
| 24 | Yeah it 's no good getting bogged down in the detail . |
| 25 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is a tragedy if law and order is beginning to break down in the north of Somalia , in what is , after all , the old British Somaliland and is now known to local people as Somaliland ? |
| 26 | As we saw in section 2.5 , the sectoral spatial division of labour was already beginning to break down in the UK during the post-war years when Fordism is supposed to have been at its height . |
| 27 | There are signs that latent defects insurance , such as that recommended in the BUILD report , is beginning to take off in the insurance market . |
| 28 | For six months Pakistan 's governments have been preoccupied with intrigue , and it may be that their carefree attitude to running the country is beginning to show up in the figures . |
| 29 | I hate having to sit down in the toilet all the time . |
| 30 | This particular form of the game is not that old , having come in in the middle of the last century , when changes took place in the technology of pelota . |