Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [v-ing] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagination contracted the distance and made it surprising to fall for so long , and then he was tearing through dogwood and elder bushes and tumbling in a shower of twigs and leaves on to the ground . |
| 2 | present their ideas , experiences and understanding in a widening range of contexts which require an increasing awareness of audience and purpose ; |
| 3 | And this will be a sign for you : you will find a babe wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger . ’ |
| 4 | The victim can raise his or her status through standing and sitting tall and proud , making steady eye contact with the interviewer from the outset , taking time to answer questions and responding in a clear voice . |
| 5 | After equilibration for 10' , the gel piece is carefully immersed ( wearing gloves and working in a fume hood ) into a scrupulously clean 20 cm 8 cm plastic tray containing 100 ml of freshly prepared 0.2% ( v/v ) DMS ( reagent grade ) solution in 10 mM Tris-HCl , pH 8.0 ( DMS is freely soluble at this concentration and buffer composition ) . |
| 6 | the 16 and 17 year old RTS trainees receive an additional 24 days ' off-the-job training to help with essential day to day skills such as handling their finances and working in a team . |
| 7 | One of my pet hates is finding , after lugging big speaker cabinets across vast floor spaces and collapsing in a panting heap , tilt-back casters , la Ampeg 8x10 , hidden under the vinyl slip cover . |
| 8 | Well , when it , when it is irrational it is operating either under the influence of the id or it 's overwhelmed by some external circumstances that it just ca n't understand the controls , therefore making all the wrong decisions and acting in a completely inadequate manner . |
| 9 | The couple are probably the most lovey-dovey in the movie world these days , forever cuddling , holding hands and behaving in a manner that makes you want to squirm . |
| 10 | After all he 's put the money in to pay pensions and the beneficiaries ought to have a strong hand in saying how that money is used , so we see half the trustees coming from the employer , the other half from the members of the pension fund , and we 've got a pension fund with the very heavy weighting of er pensioners and not so many employees and we would like to see the remaining seats er half the trustees elected , partly from the current employees , partly from the deferred pensioners and partly from the pensioners and reflecting in a broad way the numbers in each of those categories . |
| 11 | In its most sophisticated form radio has produced some memorable compilations , dramatising the texts of documents and adding in a variety of sound effects . |
| 12 | Pollution episodes continued unabated with , for example , a four-day episode in New York City in November 1966 causing 80 deaths and resulting in a state of emergency being declared by Governor Rockefeller ( figure 8.3 ) . |
| 13 | Over the last few laps of the race , with all the cars on wet-weather tyres and racing in a steady drizzle , Bailey lost more ground to both the Mercedes . |