Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [indef pn] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are also occasions when it is fitting for everything in a service to be either purist and ‘ traditional ’ or ‘ modern ’ . |
| 2 | Jackie he was he was looking he was for something and he was looking for something in a hurry and I could n't find out I like T-shirts in one pile sweat shirts in another pullovers in another jeans in another but they were all sort of |
| 3 | She almost cried out in shock as she saw Ana moving quickly across the old court , drifting like someone in a dream . |
| 4 | ‘ Why are you talking like someone in a novel ? ’ |
| 5 | Before the shooting Melrose Spence , a friend of the defendant , saw him sitting on the bonnet of his car , talking to someone in a jeep . |
| 6 | Prince Richard approached then and invited her to dance with him , and she smilingly accepted , feeling like one in a dream . |