Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A TOP Tory MP failed a breath test after driving through a police speed trap . |
| 2 | It 's been revealed that a prostitute who was found murdered was responsible for an eight year old boy dying of a drugs overdose . |
| 3 | Mr Schofield was arrested on Tuesday after walking into a police station in London . |
| 4 | Four months later , on 2 February 1979 , Sid Vicious finally shot one red light too many , dying from a drugs overdose , naked — so the popular press reported — and in the arms of his latest girlfriend . |
| 5 | The boy was convicted of 71 offences , including 40 charges of burglary , after absconding from a children 's home . |
| 6 | I did n't expect this sort of driving from a three-times world champion . ’ |
| 7 | Appeals against the decision of a licensing board in an application relating to a seamen 's canteen licence . |
| 8 | Thorold Mackie , a small companies ' analyst who is highly thought of in the city 's financial circles , has been charged with obtaining and misusing price-sensitive information relating to a profits warning by Glasgow-based Shanks & McEwan . |
| 9 | But the Code will also apply where a suspect , not in detention , is being questioned about an offence by a police officer acting as a police officer for the purpose of obtaining evidence . |
| 10 | MPs are to table Commons questions about reports that Ulster security forces allowed a top IRA volunteer to carry on terrorist activities while acting as a police informer . |
| 11 | AN IRA terrorist who claims he was involved in more than a dozen killings while acting as a police informer was arrested yesterday . |
| 12 | It is believed that the tongue plays an important part in acting as an antennae for vibrations , or that the snake is hypersensitive to earth vibrations . |
| 13 | The chance of stardom beckoned after Maureen read that the Civic Theatre was looking for a corgi to appear alongside the Queen in the Roald Dahl play . |
| 14 | Yes that 's right , looked like a , a good plan , I was looking for a savings plan and er I suppose it 's one of those er fortunate circumstances , Friends Provident sent some stuff through , it looked good so I took it out . |
| 15 | POLICE are looking for an antiques dealer who mysteriously vanished from his Barnard Castle home last month . |
| 16 | If you assumed this public culture reflected political actuality you would be living in a fools ' paradise , the reverse side of Thatcherland . |
| 17 | There seems little wrong with that , for we have been living in a fools paradise for years and also depriving the Americans of value . |
| 18 | To pretend as the sister said , that because she and another sister share lesbian sexuality , that that is the only thing , I think is living in a fools paradise . |
| 19 | Yes so all this time were you still living in a nurses home ? |
| 20 | The thought of living in a mews cottage had been one of her daydreams , like living in a penthouse . |
| 21 | Danny was living in a children 's home . |
| 22 | It came to Noreen 's rescue when she was just fifteen , pregnant and living in a Children 's Home with little hope of anywhere else to go . |
| 23 | He is an amateur photographer , living in a bare-knuckles gold-mining boom town called Matupa on the southern rim of the Amazon basin . |
| 24 | ‘ And why is a duke 's brother living in an alms house while his wife runs an art gallery in another ? ’ |
| 25 | defendant acquiescing in a plaintiffs inexcusable , inordinate and prejudicial delay in prosecuting an action was thereby debarred from having it dismissed for want of prosecution . |
| 26 | Teeth 42 in number ( 20 upper , 22 lower ) , strong correctly placed , meeting in a scissors bite — lower incisors touching inside of upper incisors . |
| 27 | When agreement is reached close the deal quickly and immediately confirm the agreed terms in writing in a heads of agreement . |
| 28 | The positive EGF staining of Barrett 's mucosal biopsy specimens was graded according to a criteria that we have developed . |
| 29 | Clints have been quarried for rockeries at a markedly increasing rate in the last 20 years , according to a Dales National Park report . |
| 30 | According to a Friends of the Earth bulletin , the company won a Green Manufacturer of the Year Award , and was on the point of signing a $114,000 sponsorship deal to support Green Shopping Day when it suddenly pulled out . |