Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a second the wind was blocked and the weight taken from my hands , only to come crashing back in double measure . |
| 2 | That 's the thing that needs bucking up in this school … |
| 3 | Regional Training Days have continued and class members have enjoyed meeting together in two rallies , one held in April in Timsbury organised by Barbara Potticary , when it was refreshing to join in classes given by Edith Harlow once more and a local class rally held in Devon was very well supported and a most pleasurable event . |
| 4 | Three varieties of the common Sweet Briar , R. eglanteria , found growing naturally in some parts of Kent , were listed as double , evergreen and double blush , and the Double Yellow is classed as a variety of the single , Rosa lutea . |
| 5 | Traditionally Asiatics had been employed east of Suez and hired on " Asiatic Articles of Agreement " , a practice which seems to have been generally acceptable since it involved sailing chiefly in Indian and Far Eastern waters . |
| 6 | He says there appeared to be no demand for another residential home because the residents did not want to continue living together in such a large number . |
| 7 | And when the walls came tumbling down in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989 to reveal cowering and bitter populations , overflowing prisons and mental hospitals , ruthless armies of secret police and state informers , corrupt politicians and equality in misery only , they might have wondered how their parents could have given even a second thought to the self-evidently corrupt , ruthless and authoritarian appeal of the ideal of ‘ World Communism ’ . |
| 8 | And came running back in stark terror a few minutes later as if all the hounds of hell were after him , and Preston , who thought they were , a half-length behind all the way back to the alley behind their two houses where they stopped to get their breath back before they went in . |
| 9 | I says I dare n't fancy going out in this I went upstairs and er , it 's always the same in n it ? |
| 10 | UltraSparc boxes could begin appearing later in 1995 . |
| 11 | UltraSparc boxes could begin appearing later in 1995 . |
| 12 | What other little maggots have you got running around in that fertile brain of yours ? ’ |
| 13 | I can remember losing there in 1985 during an otherwise confident Championship season . |
| 14 | South Moor still look threatening though in second place , just one point behind but with a game in hand . |
| 15 | ‘ Who 'd get the blame , I ask you , if some young big-head like him got larking about in that lot , and the whole thing caved in and buried him alive ? |
| 16 | This proved extremely successful and after several open days farmers began signing up in increasing numbers . |
| 17 | Towards the end of field-work , after a neighbourhood policeman had been murdered in another area , which up until then had been considered ‘ soft ’ , with no threat from terrorists , Easton 's neighbourhood men began going out in threes , with two men providing cover , so that only a third of beat time was devoted to each neighbourhood patch . |
| 18 | The name of the Russian General Suworow keeps coming up in this region because of the marches made by the army he brought up from Italy into Switzerland in 1799 during the Napoleonic Wars , forcing the Gotthard Pass against bitter French resistance , but later driven to retreat back up the Muota valley when the French blocked his path at the passage of the Schlattli bridge . |
| 19 | ‘ Her name keeps cropping up in this case . |
| 20 | A similarity with living organisms suggests itself , and while there are dangers in taking this analogy too far , it has proved a useful model and one which keeps cropping up in organisational analysis . |
| 21 | Cultivation Mullein will always be found growing naturally in well-drained soil ad a sunny place . |
| 22 | Small , immature goats suffer most ; they find moving around in deep snow most difficult and demanding . |
| 23 | Ever since Harry started frying there in 1931 , at the end of the tram line from Leeds , there 's been a steady flow of customers . |
| 24 | The decks are a little more lively , with the genuinely and partially recovered sitting about in little groups , eyeing me accusingly whenever I pass . |
| 25 | One of the best natural examples of this is the ability of the flu virus to keep cropping up in new forms . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I am conventional enough to dislike appearing anywhere in unsuitable clothes . |
| 28 | For the new generation , providence meant looking ahead in this progressive sense ; those who would not do so were classed as improvident . |
| 29 | Rory straightened his tie , and with his whisky still burning in his throat , and now his stomach too , he moved along to the gap in the curtains and slid through , back into the ballroom , where people sat drinking at long wooden tables and groups of dancers went whirling round in complicated , ever-changing patterns , all flowing dresses and clasping hands and big red sweaty faces and white shirts and ties and narrow trousers or — even worse — kilts . |
| 30 | The health authority says it still does n't understand what went wrong , but it denies acting negligently in any way whatsoever . |