Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just the two of them hanging on in that decaying old house , ’ Schellenberg said . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | This does not reflect a radical social openness or free circulation of agents between social positions , since the offspring of the higher occupational grades still have a much greater relative chance of ending up in those grades than people from lower occupational backgrounds , but all the same it represents de facto social mobility on a large scale . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , 1993 will see a number of opportunities opening out in both new geographical markets in South East Asia and West Africa and also as a result of our recently introduced Orion satellite positioning system . |
| 6 | As a result of this activity , a three-dimensional model of a tin mine can take on the appearance of a twisted mass of petrified spaghetti with shafts and tunnels splaying out in all directions . |
| 7 | He 's still driving around in that one now . |
| 8 | foloowing on in that period — another wicket down — Phil Weston 's caught Taylor bowled Holdsworth — Worcestershire now 151 behind the tourists |
| 9 | Lurching along in this enclosed space , one loses all sense of direction . |
| 10 | Here is a pretty device to decorate a banner withal , and who knows but that the bunting may yet cast its shadow upon the representative body of shellbacks lurching along in some typical procession of industry . |
| 11 | He gets all over the pitch , and I could see him fitting in in all kinds of areas , he used to be good for Spurs even when the defence came under pressure , and he 'd tackle back , becoming the ball winner . |
| 12 | Eliza was under no illusions that this meant they would be spending more time together : ‘ John , of course , will not remain there long , ’ she told her mother , ‘ but be wandering off in some direction … ’ . |
| 13 | That 's the thing that needs bucking up in this school … |
| 14 | Dressing up in all those grand clothes when she 's dying ! ’ |
| 15 | So , it 's no good er me looking up in some book Theresa 's dreams if I could decipher it like some kind of code in which every single thing in the laten in the manifest content represented something latent for what we 're trying to then kind of decode as in a code book because er that 's not valid , at least it 's not valid in general terms . |
| 16 | He warned the Conservatives and Labour that ‘ from the ancient bastion of liberalism , the flames are fanning out in all directions , consuming your shabby campaigns , your out-of-date policies , your visions of the future ’ . |
| 17 | Fifty yards off the fox ran into some hares and they went careering off in all directions , one of them dashing up a heather slope to cause an explosion of grouse . |
| 18 | Whatever was going on in that head of yours , it was certainly dramatic . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ If I 'd known what was going on in that house right under my nose … ’ |
| 20 | I stared at him , wondering what was going on in that complex mind of his , what his real motive was in pushing north by car when we could have had a good night 's sleep and flown up in daylight . |
| 21 | ‘ No , I damn well do n't know what the hell is going on in that pretty little head of yours , but I 'm fast losing patience . |
| 22 | I know you , Lissa ; I know you far better than you think , and I know exactly what 's going on in that secretive labyrinth of a mind . |
| 23 | Adam what 's actually going on in that last the one these two have just read ? |
| 24 | It should not be forgotten either that in this so-called era of peace , there are wars going on in many parts of the world which means that some people are living in an unsafe environment and in constant danger . |
| 25 | Bishop Gray gave his full support to the work going on in many of the schools and parishes , and expressed a wish that the programme would be quickly at the heart of all our schools . |
| 26 | Yet despite fine work going on in many schools , classrooms and library resource centres , it is all too common to find teachers reverting to type , schools with equipment stowed away unused , library resource centres which have become simply print shops for the production of work sheets and diagrams , supplementing teacher.exposition and drill . |
| 27 | Friends tell one another just about everything that is going on in each other 's lives … |
| 28 | Even the dimmest goon is going to realize there 's something queer going on in all that time . |
| 29 | Clearly there is something very important going on in this move , and at one level it is indeed a necessary corrective to the textual isolationism of much modernist criticism . |
| 30 | What has really been going on in this establishment ? |