Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 2 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |
| 3 | When he came alongside a trawler 25 miles out from the English coast he asked : ‘ Am I going in the right direction for France ? ’ |
| 4 | I thought I saw someone moving in the front room . |
| 5 | Surely someone moving toward the light ought to measure it traveling at a higher speed than someone moving in the same direction as the light ; yet the experiment showed that both observers would measure exactly the same speed . |
| 6 | to actually create the right learning environment for them , there were a thousand little details that I had to attend to , like had I planned my lesson right , was I progressing in the right way round the classroom , had I remembered to chase up certain people 's homework , and stuff . |
| 7 | In TA it is observed that the strokes that work best are often unconditional rather than solely dependent upon someone behaving in the desired way . |
| 8 | He pointed to someone sitting in the front row . |
| 9 | There are 200 species of primate , 90 per cent of them living in the tropical rainforests of Asia , Africa and South and Central America . |
| 10 | Many have good sight , but there are a few forms which have lost their eyes , some of them living in the lightless world of caves . |
| 11 | An ordinary freedom-fighter or revolutionary — and there were a great many of them operating in the Holy Land at the time — might well have won popular support for his actions , but could not have been acclaimed as the Messiah . |
| 12 | Two years later we find Datini himself writing in the same vein to one of his partners in Spain , Cristofano di Bartolo , whom he wished to persuade to come home . |
| 13 | It has a leisurely , turn-of-the-century ambience , in which strolling in the many green parks , sitting in one of the string of cafés along the Paseo de Pereda , or shopping in the strikingly smart shops a few streets back , are the best ways to spend the day . |
| 14 | PALEFACE David Mellor walked into a hall full of journalists last night … and found himself drinking in The Last Chance Saloon . |
| 15 | He was surprised therefore , after drawing his gun and edging out carefully , to find himself standing in the deserted mortuary room where he had introduced the three travellers to Howard . |
| 16 | Once into the trees , they lost sight of the sun and the sky and had to rely on the compass to keep them heading in the right direction . |
| 17 | This meant everyone pulling in the same direction , and I was convinced there was a win/win opportunity : for business objectives and for employees . |
| 18 | Eh she looking in the large child ? because they shrink a bit in the wash . |
| 19 | And because I do n't want you living in the same house as someone who might be a murderer . |
| 20 | you know , and so I avoided her , but I would tell her , but if I saw her I would say Jenny I must admit I did see you going in The General but I did n't come out because I was so upset , but I , I wonder what she 's doing , cos she , I heard she 's got her own business , but I ca n't see that . |
| 21 | ‘ Are n't you going in the wrong direction ? ’ |
| 22 | While there are few hard and fast rules about what is precisely right to wear at the office this season , there are some pointers to keep you heading in the right direction . |
| 23 | While there are few hard and fast rules about what is precisely right to wear at the office this season , there are some pointers to keep you heading in the right direction . |
| 24 | language I remember you saying in the first year when you first came to Birmingham |
| 25 | Now the reason this is a bit messy , is that at that stage , depended on which one you get out of here , you putting in the second bag . |
| 26 | This was a book of fables , most of them pointing in the inevitable direction ; the title story told , with some charm , of a little boy who saw from a hillside while out walking a house whose windows were all of gold . |
| 27 | Since then I have always followed the fortunes of Preston and am saddened to see them languishing in the lower divisions . |
| 28 | He wants everyone pointing in the same direction , and that means a common culture and a common status . |
| 29 | He could see them grazing in the next field , further up the slope . |
| 30 | He tells us that , ‘ with the reassessment of this one drawing in the British Museum ‘ Seated nude surrounded by drapery ’ once a Rembrandt but now a Raven the attribution to Rembrandt of a whole series of nude studies by the same hand collapsed ’ . |