Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |
| 2 | A second or two later , everything came crashing down in a big heap on the railway line below . |
| 3 | We were early for band call and , except for a gap-toothed , long-haired hippie groping along in the opposite direction , seemed to be alone . |
| 4 | Here the skilled operator establishes in her own consciousness a network of alarm signals which go off when the train of thought starts chugging along in a dangerous direction . |
| 5 | But both had to give way to Larne AC 's flying doctor Peter Howie who produced his best ever run by storming through in the closing stages to grab the runner up spot . |
| 6 | Cooling off in a Scottish loch : riders from the Castle Riding Centre , Argyllshire . |
| 7 | New opportunities are opening up in the near future which you must be calm enough to accept . |
| 8 | The nearby fishing village of Porthleven was also badly hit , with a 14ft-deep hole opening up in the back garden of one house . |
| 9 | Faced with a new branch of nationwide chain opening up in the next street leading to falling sales at one 's own bookshop , a bookseller might go for interviews with customers leaving the new store . |
| 10 | This nearly always results in drifting further back without much gain of height and ending up in a worse situation than before . |
| 11 | When they hit the ground , they may stop abruptly , embedding themselves still glowing , fuming and sizzling slightly in the loose ash ; or they may bounce off , to leap down the steep sides of the cone in a series of great bounds , developing a rapid spin as they do so , and whirring downhill like cannonballs , ending up in a rattling shower of small stones at the bottom . |
| 12 | Who 's been gossiping to you about her running away with the married man when she was fifteen and ending up in the Daily Record ? |
| 13 | If a pregnancy is pre-marital , it trebles the relative risk of a couple ending up in the local authority sector rather than the owner-occupied one ( Murphy , 1983 ) . |
| 14 | The immediate remedy is usually to petition for winding up in the public interest , so that a provisional liquidator ( the Official Receiver ) can be appointed , halting the company 's activities . |
| 15 | They are mopping up in a southerly direction . |
| 16 | The squawking continued for a moment before dying out in a final gurgle as Rev. Levitt recited the prescribed blessing . |
| 17 | ‘ There are thousands , maybe tens of thousands , who are dying out in the rural areas , or as they make their way to the towns to get help . |
| 18 | Evening distractions were few , although we did hear Sinead O'Connor blasting out in the early hours in one village , and we spent one evening joining in with some traditional dancing — the original Twist ! |
| 19 | Spectators gasped in awe at the sight of a ball landing back in the same court . |
| 20 | But there are also thousands of people walking around in a semi-drugged state day after day because they are in the habit of taking tablets , whether prescribed or bought over the counter . |
| 21 | Normally to be seen driving around in a funereal Daimler — dwarfing the island 's other cars ( including the BMW of Premier Sir John Swan ) — the Governor also dons his uniform and takes to the streets in a horse-drawn landau several times a year . |
| 22 | One or two of the old films are now on CD video because they are important documents of certain artists , but the way we are filming and editing the films I am now making is completely different We have learnt a very great deal in these years and so we forget about the older films just as you would n't dream of driving around in a thirty-year-old car . |
| 23 | The Barbarians were knocking about in the late bronze age and iron age . |
| 24 | ( 3 ) In other words , although farm modernisation policies have actively encouraged non-viable or older farmers to retire from farming , many in the poorer areas have not done so , living on in a traditional way for extremely low returns . |
| 25 | But referee Ed Morrison 's leniency led to bad blood spilling over in a six-man brawl as Richards looked for revenge . |
| 26 | From the top of the bank Yanto noticed Billy and Janet wandering off in the opposite direction . |
| 27 | Like slipping away from a sleeping embrace , silently shutting the door behind one , tiptoeing off in the grey light of dawn — a stranger again . |
| 28 | Some 44 per cent of the 65 advertisers interviewed saw the economy picking up in the last quarter of this year at the earliest , and a further 35 per cent did not envisage an improvement until 1993 . |
| 29 | Waiting for his break , he supported himself with a series of odd jobs : driving limos , handing out cigarette samples and even dressing up in a giant chicken costume to promote a fast-food franchise . |
| 30 | For some prey , it becomes a matter of safety in numbers , with musk oxen forming up in a defensive circle to face a pack of marauding wolves , like a wagon train defending itself against attacking Indians . |