Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 22 a 25-year old man committed suicide in Kwangju by leaping in flames from the roof of the mortuary building which contained the body of Park Seung Hee . |
| 2 | ‘ Walking in sandals on the lanes of south-west France . ’ |
| 3 | If ever this ended , I thought , I would n't go walking in woodland for a very long time . |
| 4 | Hashing , which takes its name from a Malaysian eating house where the hobby originated before World War II , involves running or walking in pursuit of ‘ hares ’ — volunteers who act as the quarry . |
| 5 | In 45-minute classes infants grapple with walking in time to music , marching , pony-trotting ; facial expressions and gestures are tested , too . |
| 6 | Masha and I found further cause for depression as , walking in search of a tube station , we came to a major intersection , a roundabout of relentless , screeching vehicles , three and four abreast : for in the centre , on the small concrete island , we saw a man lying on his side . |
| 7 | Mountain Walking in Kenya by David Else , published by Robertson McCarta ( 071 278 8276 ) . |
| 8 | Norman , an aggressive nine year old , exploded at a boy walking in front of him who had thoughtlessly trodden on a painting which had fallen onto the floor . |
| 9 | He turned the truck in the direction he had pointed , Myeloski once again walking in front of the two headlights that lit his path for him . |
| 10 | And then , quite suddenly , I recognised the people who were walking in front of us through the gardens . |
| 11 | That , too , had been expressing its displeasure with rhythmic twitching of its powerful tail , its burning eyes fixed balefully on the visitors walking in front of its enclosure . |
| 12 | Then it does n't matter so much what you say that stops it walking in front of the bus , it 's actually how you say it . |
| 13 | That could be the carrot to dangle before the leading dissident in his party , Mr Chandra Shekhar , sulking in isolation after his weekend defeat in the leadership tussle . |
| 14 | This effectively prevented them from interfering in matters of state , or fomenting rebellion . |
| 15 | However , according to Zakrewski the government has ruled that the duty-free import quotas will only be divided up among home-grown or foreign companies that have been assembling in Poland for two years , while other firms will face levies at the old rates . |
| 16 | Assembling in front of the Eiffel Tower , the teams drove through France and sailed the Med safely enough before rumbling south from Algiers with back-up that did not include much besides a wing and a prayer . |
| 17 | To be sure , this contrast is over-stated , and academic fields have periods of relative stagnation and sudden revolution , just as professional ones can evolve almost without anyone noticing in response to shifts in practice . |
| 18 | In the course of Yeltsin 's visit the two sides signed 24 joint statements , documents and memorandums of understanding in areas including military and technical co-operation , space exploration , nuclear energy development , border security and armed forces reduction , trade and economic co-operation and educational and scientific exchanges . |
| 19 | There may well be an element of compulsion involved in civil disobedience , but it differs from coercion in that it is aimed at securing mutual co-operation and understanding in accordance with a dialectical quest for truth . |
| 20 | Are they lurking in front of anyone ? |
| 21 | Alternatively , what chance does a white , yellow or orange fish have of lurking in wait for prey ? |
| 22 | She was obviously delighted with all the green of the fields and copses of Kent , the railway banks seemed to be opening in flower under our very eyes as the train went through the sunshine . |
| 23 | A Suitable Boy had been planned as part of a larger whole , a four or five-volume sequence opening in India in the period immediately following Independence and Partition and ending in the present day , when the heroine whose husband was sought in volume one had become a grandmother . |
| 24 | Since opening in Cologne in 1969 , Greve has shown the work of Josef Albers and fostered long-term relationships with contemporary artists such as Twombly , Kounellis , Fontana , Manzoni , Bourgeois , Chamberlain and Nicola de Maria . |
| 25 | Since opening in Cologne in 1986 , Kren 's arduously researched exhibitions have included ‘ Georges Rouault/George Baselitz : Dialectic in Prints ’ ; Brazilian Ex Votos ; Frederick Kiesler ; African Masks and Japanese Noh-Masks alongside drawings by American artists Feininger , Childs , Kwiatek , Ellis , Taylor and Ferro ; Thom Barth and Masks from Black Africa ; and in early 1992 , nineteen photographs of Picasso taken by Jean Cocteau in 1916 in conjunction with African Tribal Arts . |
| 26 | Mr Huismans , who attended the Tencel plant opening in Mobile on December 2 , said : ‘ The potential for a real breakthrough is there . |
| 27 | Michael Thaw MHCIMA has been appointed general manager of Oulton Hall , Leeds , opening in June of this year . |
| 28 | Before we leave Glamorgan , a word of congratulation to Stephen James , who has been opening in place of Butcher and compiling runs with the kind of technique that reveals how earnestly he is trying to establish himself this summer . |
| 29 | A new and distinctive chapter was opening in relationships between the masses , more numerous , more literate , and better organized than ever before , and middle-class organizations and agencies who were realizing more urgently than ever before that new initiatives were needed to bridge the great abyss of class . |
| 30 | Terence and his pals — Nick Day , the short one , Stewart Ross , the fat — found a corridor opening in front of them , on the surge . |