Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 The USS Chemicals company in Ironton , Ohio has been saving around $100,000 in raw-material costs through reducing air emissions by 100,000 lbs per year .
2 There was no choice and you 're taking away rights in that .
3 I am involved in two national activities which are moving forward programmes in this field .
4 Alfred was waving a white-stockinged leg in the air , Heinrich experimentally bending over in his black knee breeches ; James was pulling at his skimpy short jacket , puffing out his chest like Beerbohm Tree as d'Artagnan , Algernon was dancing a Highland fling showing off his black slipper shoes , and Alice and Emily were swishing merrily arm in arm through the kitchen in their huge , gathered black skirts covered with large , bibbed , lacy aprons .
5 Likewise the second night passed without incident , but on the third night , when I was tidying away papers in my office , a dishevelled deputy Sister came in .
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