Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] [verb] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spent every minute that was not wasted in eating or sleeping in this pursuit . |
| 2 | A few early lapwings were on territory , twisting and turning in frantic display , and little doubt the local crows had already noted the fact for future reference . |
| 3 | It was a deafening chorus of human agony ; a shrieking cacophony of men and women 's voices , dozens — perhaps hundreds of them — all wailing and shrieking in mortal torment . |
| 4 | A racing crew will find that they can keep the power on while the yacht is weaving and dodging in close company . |
| 5 | However , when groups from such communities move to and settle in countries living and eating in Western style , and adopt Western habits , repeated surveys and studies have shown that , gradually , over the years , they too become equally prone to the ‘ big Cs ’ and all those other Western diseases . |
| 6 | She needed strength : her and Bernard 's nightly love play would go on for hours , limbs lurching and surging in some kind of gladiatorial combat as if the one who weakened first lost . |
| 7 | Where part of a building is let off as a separate factory the landlord will be responsible for providing and maintaining in efficient working order and good repair sufficient and suitable sanitary conveniences for the persons employed in the factory ( Factories Act 1961 , s7(1) , s122 ) . |
| 8 | initiating and participating in major research projects in the European Community . |
| 9 | After 5 min , sediment the cells again by centrifuging and resuspend in fresh fixative . |
| 10 | Two further modules may be selected from Trainer-Training , Teaching and Learning in Higher Education , Education in Developing Countries , and Adult Education . |
| 11 | The professor will be expected to play a major part in the organisation of syllabuses , teaching and lecturing in Roman Art and Archaeology , in close collaboration with the sub-faculties of Ancient History and Classical Languages and Literature . |
| 12 | Scientists diving and photographing in blue water have devised methods of dealing with the possibilities of runaway icebergs , strong currents and disorientation by using a system of safety divers and tethers . |
| 13 | The popularity of Wade 's sculpture was probably due not only to the fact that it was always comprehensible but that it was both ennobling and restrained in equal measure . |
| 14 | Advertising proved a more fertile category , with decisions which set heads nodding and shaking in equal measure . |
| 15 | Similarly the many Mexicans looking simply to cast an anti-government vote supported the left , which stood a greater chance of winning and emerged in second place amid evidence of substantial fraud by the government . |
| 16 | He could hear Buddie yelling at the top of his voice as he thrashed the dogs , and the rattle of chains as Rosie and Lady leaped about , barking and snarling in confused excitement . |
| 17 | I only got to know her a little as a teenager when I visited her on my own in the single-end where she lived in a Parkhead tenement , sleeping , washing and cooking in one room . |
| 18 | I find , tell you what I find difficult is thinking and learning in that class . |
| 19 | Platform shoes from the Thirties and Forties — now in bright shiny colours or mock reptile skin — left us tottering , swaying and living in permanent fear of a sprained ankle . |