Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like small birds , small mammals may occasionally indulge in mobbing to rid themselves of a feared killer . |
| 2 | There is a funicular in Ellmau and a chairlift in Going to whisk you up the mountain and the views . |
| 3 | Erm I 'm er rising to take the opportunity to sum up the debate er for those of us on this side of the house and to say that on this side of the house we do welcome these orders actually coming through , delayed though they are and er besmirched though they are by the usual examples of government incompetence in failing to send them to the scrutiny committee in the proper manner to allow the usual processes to take place but wi that 's par for the course these days . |
| 4 | Bonanza Boy , one of my old favourites , has been a remarkable horse over the years and I am a touch sad in having to desert him for a horse I consider to have a better chance . |
| 5 | On Jan. 25 the government ordered the ex-Prime Minister , Kazi Zafar Ahmed and members of his Cabinet in hiding to surrender themselves to the authorities within seven days or face one year 's rigorous imprisonment . |
| 6 | The same letter also indicates how certain heterosexual anxieties structured in and by sexual difference are projected by Lawrence on to the homosexual , a move which his critics sometimes follow in trying to save him from the taint of homosexual desire . |
| 7 | Examples are known at Great Chesterford , Camerton , Margidunum and Droitwich , among others.59 But these structures on the whole resemble the familiar winged-corridor villas of the countryside , a building style which was restricted neither to Britain nor entirely to the countryside.60 Care must therefore be observed in trying to identify them as the residences of minor provincial officials , for obviously they might be no more than the farmhouses of local landowners and in degree little different from a normal villa . |