Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the Whips pursued the government in the hope of catching them out in a snap vote ; at the least this would disrupt their progress and there seemed an outside chance that the government would tire of the interminable pressure and throw in the sponge . |
| 2 | People sent their daughters to Cambridge School , dressing them up in the toffee-brown and pale-blue uniform Elizabeth Jarvis had selected . |
| 3 | picking us out in the battered kiosk . |
| 4 | North had already thrashed out a democratic manifesto for a unified opposition in Nicaragua , the leaders and himself scribbling it out in a cramped hotel room in Miami ; at the hearings , he proudly compared it to the sweaty wranglings in Philadelphia over the Constitution . |
| 5 | These group-living females show remarkable degrees of social tolerance and sometimes take up residence in large , communal nests , carrying all their kittens in there and piling them up in a huge , squirming mass . |
| 6 | A word of caution at this point : do not list specific skills that you do not have unless you feel that the lack of these skills is holding you back in a particular area . |
| 7 | But it must be equally obvious that during spells of prolonged rain the rabbits are much more likely to stay underground in the warmth and security of their burrow systems rather than braving it out in the open and being constantly soaked . |
| 8 | Then she carried the basket to the washing line and unpegged the clothes rapidly , chucking them down in a windblown tangle ( Ella folded things as she took them out of the tumble drier . |
| 9 | Grumbling under his breath at the lateness of the hour , and the fact that he was missing an important baseball game on TV , the super — who appeared to be of Polish extraction — nevertheless insisted on taking them up in an antiquated , dangerously shaky lift . |
| 10 | We 're dropping it down in a different place , but the reaction will be the same ’ . |
| 11 | When they paused near one of these villages to rest the horses the Collector remained in the carriage and watched the men drawing water from the well , drawing it up in a huge leather bag with the help of their bullocks , and he knew that the same two men and two bullocks would do this every day until the end of their lives . |
| 12 | There is no way of standing them off in the old fashion . |
| 13 | She 'd screamed at them through her letter-box , and shoved an old iron poker into the gap , waving it about in an obscene fashion which had made Stuart laugh ; when neighbouring tenants began to bang on the walls they left the parcel outside the door , not sure who would find it first . |
| 14 | From McIntosh 's point of view it was not an easy decision to pull out of institutional sector research as he was involved in setting it up in the mid '70s . |
| 15 | Twenty per cent of the crop is still in the ground and growers are having difficulty digging it out in the wet conditions … so it remains to be seen if the present glut will last . |
| 16 | Shoving us off in a lucid surge |
| 17 | Last of his stick to leave the C130 , Grant 's rate of descent was half again as fast as the rest , taking him past the others , and plummeting him down in a whirling corkscrew . |
| 18 | This is why bodies exist , rather than separate replicators still battling it out in the primordial soup . |
| 19 | Finalists in last year 's Quality Quest competition , Macmillan College , Middlesbrough and Dowdales School in Dalton in Furness are staging a rematch in Newcastle , where they are among five schools battling it out in the Northern Development Company 's competition . |
| 20 | and the table tennis festival bounces on this weekend with the English Open Championship in Birmingham … skills of a different kind now … some of the country 's top hockey players have been in Swindon battling it out in the National Indoor Championship … these were the qualifying rounds … the action though worthy of the finals … here 's Erika Barnes |