Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he made his way up , feeling like a schoolboy with skimped prep , his eye caught , with a start of surprise , the rotund shape of Mr Kronweiser , eyes darting suspiciously in all directions , working at a desk . |
| 2 | Just the two of them hanging on in that decaying old house , ’ Schellenberg said . |
| 3 | Wages were pitiful and despite recovering somewhat in certain sectors in the last years before the war , they remained very low . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , in her mind , she had visions of the Brownings rattling along in high good humour with all manner of beautiful vistas to right and left as they trotted to Arezzo and she could hear the conversation and Pen 's excited laughter . |
| 5 | Only in areas remote from this authority , as in isolated mining settlements , or where the state was itself weak , as in the United States , could bourgeois masters exercise that sort of direct rule , whether by command over the local forces of public authority , by private armies of Pinkerton men , or by banding together in armed groups of ‘ vigilantes ’ to maintain ‘ order ’ . |
| 6 | Peterborough are jogging along in midtable while United are slipping down … |
| 7 | And when the walls came tumbling down in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989 to reveal cowering and bitter populations , overflowing prisons and mental hospitals , ruthless armies of secret police and state informers , corrupt politicians and equality in misery only , they might have wondered how their parents could have given even a second thought to the self-evidently corrupt , ruthless and authoritarian appeal of the ideal of ‘ World Communism ’ . |
| 8 | Though literary festivals could be immensely enjoyable , especially if they took you to some pleasant distant city , like Toronto or Adelaide , there was something absurd about writers gathering together in this way . |
| 9 | It tells the fascinating story of his summer of 1991 , which he spent flying a Stearman ( nicknamed Cannibal Queen ) around the USA , touching down in all 48 states of the continental United States . |
| 10 | There are many who will never forget that sad time but now the East Lindsey coastline has a happy atmosphere ; sometimes throbbing with the joy of summer seaside thrills but more constantly pulsating gently in natural tranquility , . |
| 11 | This huge old hospital is known by the Milanese as the Ca'Grande , or ‘ Great House ’ , and was built by Francesco Sforza in 1456 as a way of bringing together in one place about thirty little hospitals which had grown up around the Porta Romana . |
| 12 | The great peace congresses which punctuated the history of the period gave particular scope , by bringing together in one place the representatives of a large number of different States , for disputes of this kind . |
| 13 | At any instant the production of small eddies is thus occurring vigorously in some places and only weakly in others . |
| 14 | And that is how we set off , arm-in-arm , down Sunningdale Drive past Sussex Gardens where the bowls players were dying slowly in well-pressed whites , towards the London Road . |
| 15 | The fact of the matter is that it is not , as I have explained to the right hon. Gentleman on many occasions , happening only in this country . |
| 16 | The race is challenging enough in normal conditions , but this year the storms had turned the Wye into a torrent . |
| 17 | This view is based upon a phrase which the Empress is supposed to have uttered ‘ It 's my pretty little war ’ , which in fact she never pronounced and which indeed was a newspaper invention appearing only in 1874 . |
| 18 | This is a very high number of cases appearing only in local newspapers , especially because of the imbalance of our sample towards the national papers . |
| 19 | POLICE are hunting two youths who snatched a handbag from a woman walking alone in broad daylight . |
| 20 | A wanderer from Siberia , occurring annually in western Europe in some numbers , mainly in autumn . |
| 21 | Men passed us , dark , bearded , stern , armed with sticks , walking swiftly in single file . |
| 22 | At the time of Fahreddin Acemi 's becoming Mufti-perhaps in 844/1440–1 on Molla Yegan 's resigning his posts , but in any case not later than 848/1444 the Darulhadis would probably have been the one important medrese in Edirne founded by the reigning sultan , Murad II , since his other complex including a medrese , the Uc Serefeli , though begun in 841/1438 , was not completed until 851/1447 . |
| 23 | He was particularly keen to establish contacts between the college and what was happening elsewhere in post-war Britain . |
| 24 | The room will be furnished with tatami ( mats ) for walking over in bare feet or socks/tights and seating is on zabuton ( large cushions ) . |
| 25 | Suddenly , somewhere off to the rear , came an yell of alarm and the roar of a shotgun going off , followed by three more blasting off in quick succession . |
| 26 | Her second and third husbands survived her , dying respectively in 1951 and 1964 . |
| 27 | This morning I observed all of them returning home in single file after their dawn patrol around the valley and as usual mother was leading the way with father in the middle keeping the unruly youngsters in hand . |
| 28 | Its treasure dispersed in 1945 , reunited in 1992 , returning home in 1993 |
| 29 | Potter remained army commissioner throughout the second civil war , becoming also in 1648 , after the battle of St Fagan 's , a county commissioner for Pembrokeshire . |
| 30 | Because of this delay in time , it is perhaps an exaggeration to say that the expansion of English maritime activity between 1460 and 1520 prepared the way for seizing opportunities which were opening up in many parts of the world ( 63 , p.163 ) . |