Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the villages of the region women and children spend many hours each day walking to a spring where the water trickles out of the ground to collect water in twenty kilo twenty litre pots weighing over twenty kilos . |
| 2 | Tolkien perhaps found difficulty in explaining to a Jesuit why a ‘ fundamentally ’ Catholic work should cut out references to religion , but the reason is clear : he thought , or hoped , that God had a plan for pre-Catholics too . |
| 3 | Her younger brother was sent by Teresa later in the day to say she would not be returning to a house where a dangerous lunatic lived and no one could expect her to — she would rather forfeit that week 's wages than wait long enough to give notice . |
| 4 | For Iraq , the effect had been particularly severe , occurring at a time when the country was suffering a financial crisis as a result of having fought a war against Iran on behalf of all Arabs . |
| 5 | And yet this is happening at a moment when the leaders in question stand exceptionally low in public esteem . |
| 6 | All of these changes were happening at a time when the rapid expansion of television was encouraging even greater isolation . |
| 7 | All this was happening at a time when the Canadian Northern Railway was creating , in effect , a third transcontinental railway , built on much more economical lines than the exceptionally expensive and high-quality GTP . |
| 8 | Now you are walking by a field where the corn has just been cut , and you see the stubble left . |
| 9 | If I have to do what is necessary here before looking for a position where the statistical likelihood of victory is higher , so be it , ’ he said . |
| 10 | The entrance is dry but soon becomes low , developing into a crawl where the stream from Lower Long Churn is admitted . |
| 11 | The fourth managed to elude his pursuers by escaping into a bog where no horse could follow . |
| 12 | You may also be eligible for a range of services if your child is considered to be ‘ in need ’ ; a technical phrase which is likely to include many children with HIV , or children living in a household where an adult has HIV . |
| 13 | ‘ Imagine living in a country where the cops are all people who 're cut out for the job . ’ |
| 14 | But for most of us , even living in a country where the language you are learning is spoken , you need a teacher , you need self-discipline , and you need to work . |
| 15 | In brief , both Lanfranc and Anselm were living in a time when the ancient consensus of local testimony , which had sufficed in the past for most matters of faith and practice , was being subordinated to more formal legal and rational procedures . |
| 16 | The work ethic is alive and well and living in a town where the official male unemployment figure is 15 per cent . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , they were greatly concerned with the idea of obtaining exact knowledge of the workings of society , and , living in a period when the natural sciences were making real strides in knowledge , felt that the application of natural science methods to the study of society might produce similar advances in understanding . |
| 18 | Two sounds only broke the stillness , the underlying hum of millions of small flies , multiplying to a roar where the gnats swarmed , and the see-saw monotony of cuckoos calling in the depths of the wood . |
| 19 | Living at a time when the value of works of art in the market was one of taste and appreciation rather than of mere commerce , he was able to avail himself of an ample fortune to buy the finest specimens of the Fine Arts which came into the market . ’ |
| 20 | He already had a verbal agreement with Forest for another year , but chairman Frederick Reacher was anxious to put it in writing at a time when the anti-Clough lobby was growing in strength . |
| 21 | Lee was laughing and peeling bananas and feeling cross and wondering about a dream wherein a frowning angel laid gentle hands on her while young people with long black hair and bizarre head-dresses danced around her . |
| 22 | ‘ Some parents assume their daughters are going through a phase when the harsh reality is both bulimia and anorexia can lead to long-lasting damage . |
| 23 | time , erm presumably going into a library quite a lot . |
| 24 | Torturing herself , she pictured him now , him and the other woman , lying in a bed much the same as the one she herself was lying in … making love . |
| 25 | ‘ Syl will think he 's going to a funeral not a wedding . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Football is going down a path where the product is being sacrificed for the sake of finance , and I 'm not happy about that . |
| 27 | She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational . |
| 28 | We are moving towards a system where a choice will be made and that choice will become reality because the money will follow the patient and so enable that patient to be treated . |
| 29 | Chapters 4 to 6 are art historical , interpreting about 800 years , beginning with a time when a miniaturist copied approved models with almost or actual religious obedience , and ending in a period in the early Renaissance when an illuminator does not even stand up when the Chancellor of France enters the room or when John of Holland can complain that Jacquemart de Hesdin has stolen his private pattern sheets in 1398 . |
| 30 | Tammy helped Michael stagger naked and bleeding to a road where a passer-by stopped to summon help . |