Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as a child growing up in the Fifties , she and her sister , Marlene , preferred to spend their sixpence pocket money on animal welfare classes run by a local RSPCA inspector rather than go to the cinema . |
| 2 | Masklin supposed it was the machine 's equivalent of a nome getting up in the morning . |
| 3 | Erm I 've got a girl sitting down in the foyer . |
| 4 | They sat down in the road and , when the state police dragged them away , they threw jackrocks under the wheels of the ‘ scab ’ trucks ( a jackrock is a couple of sharpened nails welded together so that no matter which way they land , they always have a point sticking up in the air ) . |
| 5 | There was a brawl going on in the entrance , and two policemen were clamping handcuffs on a couple of young men who were causing the trouble . |
| 6 | Hughes became the puzzled spectator of his own life , examining his own beleaguered existence like a tourist poking around in the ruins . |
| 7 | There was a conference going on in the kitchen . |
| 8 | It 's like I 'm just floating down the street , just a head bobbing along in the water . |
| 9 | Spectators gasped in awe at the sight of a ball landing back in the same court . |
| 10 | On our way upstairs we met a gentleman coming down in the dark . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ People witnessed the man running away , others reported a man hanging around in the area but no one admits seeing the assault happen . |
| 12 | Robert O'Mahoney 's King , a ‘ dynamotologist ’ — ‘ self-realisation , you know ? ’ — is the picture of a man floundering around in the deep end of life , who has forgotten not only how to swim , but even where he left his life jacket . |
| 13 | A little later we saw another cow and then through my glasses I picked up a bull lying down in the distance . |
| 14 | Then my family ; or at any rate the beam of a torch moving about in the kitchen . |
| 15 | ‘ It was probably a fox moving around in the bushes , or perhaps even a badger . |
| 16 | We 're all prone to do that , were all prone to take the line of least resistance and you find this not just in the truth but in any sort of community in life , in any area of life that wish to go , you , you may find this at work or at school , you youngsters , there 's always a little Johnny at the back is n't it , that , that will fit in the back row and think if I 'm back here teacher wo n't notice you see , were act were actually tuck himself up in the corner and er think well if I 'm , if I 'm up here nobody will notice me and see the day goes by and er we do n't have so much to do , those are the type of people that in , in , in a physical life er sort of going to sleep are n't they , they do n't want to accept responsibility and we , we find even in the truth , you 'll always find it in congregations like we have here in our congregation , we 're not different , we 're all the same are n't we , we 're all flesh and we 're all imperfect and we 're all prone to doing or wanting to do the things that are different or you know than , than what Jehovah wants us to do and we all want to tuck ourselves up a little corner sometimes and yet we should n't be like that and this is what the scriptures tell us and warn us about to put ourselves headlong into the truth , be whole sole , be awake , be alert , be vigilant to the things that are going on and there 's a lot going on in the truth at this particular time , things are changing , the scriptures tell us that the scene of the world is changing and that 's true is n't it ? |
| 17 | The surface oceans are actually super-saturated with calcium carbonate so there 's a lot in solution , there 's more in solution than in theory is possible , in super-saturated condition and in addition there 's a lot floating around in the solid form in biological material . |
| 18 | They could go through them , and then they could encourage a more open thing , and people could — there could be a discussion going on in the class at the same time . |
| 19 | The taste is good enough to send half a million people a year squirrelling around in the woods of northern Michigan , in search of something that is often no more than a couple of inches high and is usually hidden under a thick pile of forest-floor debris . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | You 're in the nearside lane and you 're going uphill and er you 're trunking away quite nicely , you see a guy coming down in the fast lane , down the hill getting a bit of a roll on , fully laden , and he gets halfway up the hill , he runs out of steam and he 's looking for a hole to get into . |