Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 2 | For an instant , in her imagination , the ballroom was peopled with guests , and Benedict was partnering her , his gold hair gleaming in the light , his eyes on hers … dancing with the bride . |
| 3 | We used to have House matches at the Hurlingham track , and I remember one afternoon competing in the 100 , 200 and 400 metres and the three jumps — high , long and triple . |
| 4 | He remembered him as ‘ a brown bagger ’ , that is a man who to save money brought a sandwich lunch in a brown bag rather than waste time and money eating in the mess . |
| 5 | As it floats away , the spider continues to spin until there may be as much as a yard of thread hanging in the air . |
| 6 | I think there 's another jacket that he 's got and there 's no room to keep them all downstairs on the hook hanging in the passage |
| 7 | The moon was almost full , casting long shadows on the ground and they saw Tock 's cottage glimmering in the distance . |
| 8 | ANXIOUS people inundated Darlington police with calls as election canvassing in the town centre almost got out of hand . |
| 9 | Daisy was screwing up her courage to accost Ricky and ask him for a drink after church when the Vicar launched into the final prayer about being made flesh , and she suddenly remembered the vast ox heart cooking in the oven for Ethel , which would burn dry if it was n't taken out , so she belted home . |
| 10 | She could see him vaguely now , white shirt gleaming in the pale moonlight . |
| 11 | Catering & Allied Services has broken the mould of contract catering in the UK with the introduction of a scheme which allows different companies in one building to share full-service staff restaurant facilities . |
| 12 | Most of the pellets were already broken up , and it was the bone assemblage accumulating in the soil that was collected . |
| 13 | They are identified also with the image of a serpent appearing in the rock art of the area . |
| 14 | CD 's second novel , written for serialization in Richard Bentley 's monthly magazine , Bentley 's Miscellany , of which CD was the first editor , the first instalment appearing in the second issue of Feb. 1837 . |
| 15 | ‘ There 's quite a bit happening in the IT services area here . |
| 16 | But the sinister Saracen lurking in the darkness of Ghar Hasan was reputed to live in 1120 — around the time of the Christian Count Roger of Normandy . ’ |
| 17 | Orkney Islands Council , too , tried to prevent the story appearing in the following day 's edition . |
| 18 | Basically it 's the Jaws syndrome — there are people who do n't want to admit there 's shit happening in the water . ’ |
| 19 | Yet in order to understand the present pattern and appearance of settlements , allowance has to be made for varying degrees of change occurring in the past . |
| 20 | All the ‘ ins and outs ’ are logged in a large collection of files which , when glancing through , look like a history of British aviation , with such names as British Aircraft Co , Fairey Aviation , Fields Aviation , Gloster Aircraft Co appearing in the purchasing ledgers . |
| 21 | He had thought of Doreen 's absences every night , the front-door banging in the early hours of the morning , the whine of a car drawing away from beneath his window . |
| 22 | Still no takers for this ‘ mirror to all you wish to remember ’ and now it is down £1.95 , or was there a 95p tag lurking in the corner of the flyleaf ? |
| 23 | There have been suggestions that some of these experiences , especially the sequences of geometrical shapes , or flashes , may be the result of discharges from the retina occurring in the absence of any stimulation — the so-called entoptic phenomenon — which can also be observed when the eyes are open in the pitch-dark . |
| 24 | A private buyer bidding in the room purchased two appealing lots , a large ‘ Allegory of Abundance ’ ( lot 73 ) by Domenico Piola ( £180,000 ; $288,000 ) and a Venetian ‘ Masked Ball ’ by Giovanni Antonio Guardi ( lot 80 ) for £305,000 ( $488,000 ; est. £180,000–200,000 ) . |
| 25 | It has been trialled with encouraging results : in an informal trial ending in the summer of 1984 the mixed ability class which had done some of the course came out ahead of parallel classes in all subjects . |
| 26 | Every case appearing in the national press is likely to appear in some local newspaper . |
| 27 | Yoma 's former husband Ibrahim al Ibrahim , appointed by Menem as Chief of Customs at Buenos Aires international airport , along with a former government official , Mario Caserta , had also been accused of drug laundering in the same report . |
| 28 | In a sense , history is repeating itself in that the sequence of development in the past has also contained local ‘ boom ’ elements such as kelp gathering in the 19th century or the bulb growing schemes in the 1960's , both of which foundered in response to changes in external economic imperatives , although at the outset there were high hopes that unique local resources i.e. seaweed and disease-free sandy soils , would provide enduring employment opportunities . |
| 29 | Through the buzz in her head she heard words spoken , formal greeting hanging in the air then she saw Steve stepping inside the house , leaving Fernando framed in the doorway . |
| 30 | Though they were as a rule sparing in the use of force , this was for reasons which seem not to have included sympathy with civil disobedience . |