Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October 1991 the company ceased trading in the United Kingdom and its business , assets and liabilities there were transferred to a United Kingdom company . |
| 2 | On 26 October 1991 I.B.C. ceased trading in the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | Thus we produced a ratio of three sterile males for every normal one caught resting in the wild ; but we could detect little mating between sterile males and wild females . |
| 4 | Christopher Tricky , seen struggling one day to remove an old tree stump near his hovel at the park gate , became , as has already been noted , the subject of ‘ Simon Lee , the Old Huntsman ’ ; a remark from Tom Poole led to ‘ The Idiot Boy ’ ; ‘ The Last of the Flock ’ told the story of a Holford shepherd found weeping in the road ; and ‘ The Thorn ’ was inspired by a weather-beaten hawthorn seen ‘ on the ridge of Quantock Hill ’ . |
| 5 | Council records show that during the last 18 months 32 companies and 12 sole traders stopped trading in the town ‘ for one reason or another . ’ |
| 6 | The House of Lords held that the surveyor was discharging the duties of both expert and quasi-arbitrator , and was not in the position of an independent arbitrator who had no other duty which involved acting in the interests of one of the parties , and that accordingly in so acting he was not guilty of collusion or bad faith . |
| 7 | He even tried looking in the oven but Mrs Bird drove him out of her kitchen with her feather duster . |
| 8 | May Sinclair stopped writing in the late 1920s . |
| 9 | That it 's time you stopped living in the past and started moving into the present . ’ |
| 10 | POLICE called to deal with three goats found wandering in the middle of a road in Grays , Essex , sent Pc Billy Kidd to sort it out . |
| 11 | One successful operation involved a cub found wandering in the centre of Darlington , taken to a refuge at Throckley , near Durham , and returned to the group for release into the Yorkshire countryside . |
| 12 | In fact the conditional theory adopts some of the best points of several of the theories found wanting in the previous chapter . |
| 13 | It had grown stale and ugly and he 'd left the Party the first time they sent the tanks in , but he did n't stop believing in the dream , the illusion , the myth , any more than he stopped believing in the Devil just because he did n't think there was a God . |
| 14 | The pair discussed a book found lying in the dining-room , the works of Sir George Mackenzie , a predecessor of Boswell both at the Scottish Bar and in literature . |
| 15 | The flame rose untrembling in the still air ; now and again a persistent insect would fly round , in , round and away . |
| 16 | A RUSSIAN sailor charged with murdering five shipmates on a German freighter found drifting in the North Sea last week has confessed to killing two of the crew with an axe , Danish police said yesterday . |
| 17 | Jinny was so amazed that she stopped speaking in the middle of a sentence and let him say goodbye and make their apologies all over again . |
| 18 | She felt herself drowning in disease , like the fly she once found floundering in the filth of her sputum mug . |
| 19 | Some sociology in the USA was therefore understandably characterised by detailed empirical studies of a variety of areas ( particularly the more ‘ seamy ’ side ) of American social life — of delinquent gangs and neighbourhoods , of particular ethnic minorities etc. — though other work , led by Talcott Parsons , involved theorising in the traditional grand manner . |
| 20 | In late March reports described fighting in the Pietermaritzburg ( Natal ) townships as some of the worst in the region since clashes began three years previously [ see pp. 36069-70 ; 36911 ] between pro-ANC militants and supporters of the ( mainly Zulu ) Inkatha movement led by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi . |
| 21 | In a recent survey of drug injectors in London , 28% ( 138/499 ) reported injecting in the previous six months with syringes previously used by someone else . |
| 22 | It also probably gave rise to considerable north-westerly directed overthrusting in the Highland area , including the great Moine Thrust itself . |
| 23 | The tins were hidden behind a shelf of books because his landlady forbade cooking in the room , apart from kettle-boiling . |
| 24 | Five years later the Football Association adopted numbering in the Cup final , using numbers 1 to 22 , but Chapman was not finally vindicated until 1939 — five years after his death — when the League made it compulsory , primarily for the benefit of spectators . |
| 25 | Black , wet patches and something twisted lying in the midst of it . |
| 26 | The story of its ill-fated Paris premiere in 1913 , which provoked fighting in the audience , is well known . |
| 27 | It was n't long after the ball got rolling , together with the head of the Eighties opinion formers , that it got going in the wrong direction . |
| 28 | The school mentioned earlier which only allowed smoking in the staffroom was sending inconsistent signals to its pupils . |
| 29 | The political refugee issue , which dominated campaigning in the nation 's richest state and which the Republicans handled with overt racism , brought a 20-year majority reign by the Christian Democrats to an end . |
| 30 | They thought it was worth around £100,000 , until a valuation for council tax arrived putting in the highest band — band H — for properties worth more than £320,000 . |