Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Burrow said society was becoming more demanding in its expectation of the police , and the entire attitude of individuals could be based on a single experience of meeting an officer . |
| 2 | Captains , the public , and the media , in any order , all seem to be becoming more demanding in their requirements throughout all cricket . |
| 3 | Coming out of the loo , she found Drew , looking equally ravishing in a blue striped shirt rolled up to show very brown arms . |
| 4 | Perhaps I sneaked into your room in the middle of the night , while you were lying there dreaming in your cotton pyjamas . ’ |
| 5 | I do n't remember him doing much digging in the garden but in my memory he is always mowing the lawn and fussing over a particular type of grass which evaded the blades and sprang back upright after the mower had passed over it . |
| 6 | We had almost half an hour of this , then brown , wet walls of rock closed us in , the sound of the engine grinding upwards reverberating in a deep cut , the foglights accentuating the macabre theatricality of our struggle up the path through which Pizarro and his four hundred armoured hidalgoes had climbed to destroy the Inca Empire half a millennium ago . |
| 7 | At other times in vacations he spent weeks doing hard reading in the library of Cambridge University and got good talks with Hoskyns . |
| 8 | she was saying upstairs sitting in the bed saying do n't get a , do n't get a doctor |
| 9 | The aim was , through the conjunction of good quality paper and inks , to eliminate a certain deadness and flatness inherent in the lithographic process and to replace it with a velvety depth and richness of colouring often lacking in English lithography . |
| 10 | And Pilate standing there watching in awe , knowing that he is the one who is guilty for allowing this to happen hating himself for it ! |
| 11 | He saw me standing there waiting in the warm light from the cafe and hesitated a second , then walked on a few paces , then stopped and looked back . |
| 12 | The servant who passed the story on to the firefighters had been standing nearby taking in all that was being said until a glance from Meredith Putt through the partly open door sent her scuttling upstairs to complete her work , filled with apprehension by what she had just heard . |
| 13 | This would have the advantage of allowing forward planning in terms of an overall residential training programme for 1988 and 1989 . |
| 14 | This piece of work demanded a bio-psychosocial approach and social care planning finally culminating in a family meeting . |
| 15 | In the first week of May some 30,000 more Somali refugees were reported to have crossed the border into Kenya , fleeing further fighting in the south [ for February UN report on Somali refugees in Kenya see p. 38755 ] . |
| 16 | Its red and gold brilliance sank into the darkness of her imagination like a firework blazing then fading in the black night sky . |