Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " So I was , sir , but I thought my bride had better see something of what 's goin' on in town before I take her back and bury her on the Moor . |
| 2 | He tottered away across the bath to Jazz and Bean , leaving Hoomey clinging to the rail , gazing down in amazement at the distance he had swum . |
| 3 | The resignations of four government ministers in late September were believed to be related to forthcoming elections , with Education Minister Ricardo Lagos Escobar in particular stepping down in order to stand for the presidency in 1993 , and Carlos Ominami Pascual ( Economy ) to organize his campaign . |
| 4 | They are not so much ‘ on the march ’ — where are their jackboots , eagle emblems and other traditional paraphernalia ? — as shambling along in worry or despair . |
| 5 | Here it is vital to complement the evangelistic enthusiasm with the gifts of pastor and teacher and to lay good foundations of a radical biblical understanding of the church at the same time as pressing on in evangelism . |
| 6 | Mr Szuluc says his parents are pensioners who ca n't afford to clothe him , so in frustration he decided to stage a protest at his local DSS office in Stroud , stripping off in front of the other bemused claimants , and handing his borrowed clothes back to his brother . |
| 7 | Didier had not taken to a foreign language and was having trouble keeping up in class . |
| 8 | Being with a prostitute is different from meeting a girl at a party and ending up in bed together , although there 's no difference in the mechanics of the sex . |
| 9 | This can only lead to children growing up without knowing the difference between right and wrong — and ending up in court themselves . |
| 10 | The course aims to bridge a gap identified by a report for the Arts Council of NI , which concluded that crafts have as yet untapped potential for the local economy , with a discrepancy between young people who train successfully and those ending up in business . |
| 11 | The amazing thing about memory is that you can use the same hooks for a multitude of lists without ending up in confusion . |
| 12 | I had the strange feeling I was driving back in time , groping my way into a world of Inca and Chimú people , a world of great empires that built roads and temples and forts of mud on the coast and of cut stone in the Andes , stone that was dove-tailed to resist the trembling of its foundations when the earth quaked . |
| 13 | Here Mr Malik stepped back with a flourish , and Robert found he was walking out in front of the whole school , his heart thumping , his mind a complete blank . |
| 14 | So if you are lucky you have a person who was not at all interested in what was happening out in front of the group of children miming and doing the actions to a song they may well not have known before . |
| 15 | People interested in agricultural improvement in the nineteenth century — in improving farming methods , in increasing the potential yield of land and in methods of improving the manner of storage of its produce — saw the formal lease as a mechanism for spelling out in advance precisely who was responsible for what , and for enshrining in legal terms how the land was to be utilised . |
| 16 | With an unbroken horse you might try reining back in hand , while a mature horse might be asked to try half- pass for the first time . |
| 17 | While the brothers stood erect on the medal platform , it was Herbert who showed the full range of emotion , weeping uncontrollably during ‘ God Save the Queen ’ and leaping about in triumph after the anthem . |
| 18 | The molten anger behind the words had her twisting round in shock to face him . |
| 19 | Groups of young people are crowding round in front of the soldiers chanting ‘ The army is with us ’ and ‘ No violence ’ . ’ |
| 20 | Jimmy Tarbuck is rabbiting on in front of the tabs , the dancers are in position , stretching their limbs and adjusting their costumes , bathed in the blue of first lighting condition . |
| 21 | All of us fated to go this way ; stumbling on in darkness , beneath the gaze of that cold , blind eye . |
| 22 | For readers looking on in envy but undertaking a sharp intake of breath as they feel as second mortgage coming on , this is far from the case . |
| 23 | The most important thing for us is the next song , ’ a sensible Tim relates before surging on in overdrive , ‘ I fuckin' love being in The Charlatans . |
| 24 | The most important thing for us is the next song , ’ a sensible Tim relates before surging on in overdrive , ‘ I fuckin' love being in The Charlatans . |
| 25 | But then let us add that sometimes , in the very depth of his love , he ( sic ) may have to resign himself to reading the text and , knowing what he knows , feeling what he feels , passing on in silence . |
| 26 | The land folded in on itself as far as you could see — green and brown hillsides sinking down in repetition , marked by the dark masses of trees and hedges . |
| 27 | Army workers living in in fear of the bombers |
| 28 | As I entered through an archway into the cobbled farmyard the shelling had increased , most of the shells passing over in support of the attack party going in just along the road . |
| 29 | Polybius again went a step further by passing over in silence the Roman Bacchanalia which chronologically and typologically can hardly be separated from the new popularity of Dionysus in Egypt about 210 B.C. He was also silent about the religious crisis in Rome during the second Punic War : we do not hear from him about the human sacrifices of that time . |
| 30 | Big Jack has an alternative — to include Ronnie Whelan in a five man midfield with Quinn the lone striker and Houghton and Staunton pushing up in support . |