Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A punctured car wheel that someone was repairing lay in the centre of the floor with half its inner tube hanging out like a paunched rabbit . |
| 2 | He 's helping to drive in the ewes for a mass ante natal clinic . |
| 3 | Detailed information on company operations is found to be available only from the individual concerns , and in order to determine the types of materials handling undertaken in the region , a detailed questionnaire has been distributed to over 350 companies , and over 150 replies received . |
| 4 | Hakim had previously acted as the equivalent of a Foreign Minister of the Democratic Arab Saharan Republic ( SADR — which the armed movement Polisario had been struggling to establish in the Western Sahara since 1976 ) . |
| 5 | CUMMINS Engine , the U.S. diesel engine maker with a plant in Darlington , claims it should be returning to profit in the first quarter of this year . |
| 6 | In short , they are seriously at risk of committing further offences and becoming trapped in the revolving door of custody . |
| 7 | Some good quality bags also have an anti-snag strip sewn between the zip and the baffle to prevent the fabric itself becoming caught in the zip . |
| 8 | We have n't gone , in physics , seriously into trying to understand the biological aspects , but then you see biology is becoming dominated in the last ten years by the understanding of basic biochemistry of cells . |
| 9 | As the majority ( and Pope Paul too ) was most anxious both to carry the minority with it and not to seem to be in any way undermining the Roman primacy , there was such a lot of qualifying done in the course of the final formulation of the text that , as it stands , it reads a little weakly . |
| 10 | Head twisting to look in the dark glass above the creaking bed . |
| 11 | And the process by which the contextualizing is carried out would itself invite interrogation and theorization ; Marxists committed to ‘ cultural materialism ’ would be impatient of a form of contextualizing founded in the history of ideas . |
| 12 | High latitudes were temperate until cooling began in the mid-to-late Pliocene ; overall cooling from then to the present has been punctuated by spells of warming . |
| 13 | Surprisingly there is now one spot in the timetable when there are two passenger trains in Aberystwyth at the same time , necessitating shunting in the station to the centre road or run round and shunt token working with Borth as the intermediate point . |
| 14 | So there he was , all frozen in the hot sun , I began to realise things were really serious when I see them machine guns itching to smoke in the fuzz hand . |
| 15 | It is often suggested that in Italy the general public is more receptive to the idea of mental hospital residents returning to live in the community . |
| 16 | In view of that , we can recognize the possibility that as rational beings we fall under a system of law which we have somehow ourselves brought into being , and that it is our task while appearing to exist in the sensory world to live according to that law , in spite of the fact that what we appear to be is simply animals driven by sensory desire . |
| 17 | The group of Principals and Heads of Department attending the workshop worked extremely hard and enthusiastically on some of the key issues relating to change in the context of their work at the University . |
| 18 | It appears to be quite selective as to which fish it invades , some becoming covered in the mutated cells into which the virus has incorporated its own genetic material , others escaping . |
| 19 | He and his wife also enjoy walking and the countryside of the area is one of their reasons for wanting to remain in the North . |
| 20 | not wanting to sit in the conservatory |
| 21 | This makes the transaction less attractive to underwriters who are looking to invest in the offeror and may explain why , in practice , it is rare to see an open offer being made to shareholders . |
| 22 | The son of a Jat farmer outside Delhi , by the age of thirteen she was already refusing to work in the fields , saying that she felt more like a woman than a man . |
| 23 | Zobel said that there had been no approaches from Japanese companies wanting to work in the OMI . |
| 24 | A feeling began to emerge that the advantages of the new approach might be long- rather than short-term , but the dichotomy between wanting to work in the new way because of its potential advantages and ‘ Are we ever going to get the syllabus done ? ’ continued to be problematic . |
| 25 | Maggie put her hands up to push him away but as soon as they touched his skin her palms seemed to take on a life of their own , moving over the strong muscles , her fingers wanting to curl in the crisp black hair that lightly covered his chest . |
| 26 | The prayer that Grandfather Smallweed is remembering occurs in the Litany in The Book of Common Prayer : ‘ from plague , pestilence and famine ; from battle , and murder , and from sudden death , Good Lord , deliver us . ’ |
| 27 | Furthermore , a very large number of hon. Members are seeking to participate in the debate . |
| 28 | He lost no opportunity to use his status as an ideological lever for black causes , eventually refusing to serve in the army on the grounds that blacks had no interest in the Vietnam War . |
| 29 | A number of prominent Kuwait opposition figures were reportedly arrested by the Iraqi forces after refusing to participate in the new government . |
| 30 | Christie was refusing to bask in the glory of his sensational Olympic 100 metres victory . |