Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly , Fand leaned her forehead on the spear-shaft , fair hair raying out in the water . |
| 2 | Could you say a little bit more about the research going on in the Education Area ? |
| 3 | We had a business man on Question Time who was saying that five hundred million pound fraud going on in the benefits , right ? |
| 4 | The most probable reason for this unjust behaviour by the Roman Governor was that he feared some sort of riot breaking out in the capital city during the festival . |
| 5 | Elean : As a firm supporter of the South African People 's struggle , it is not often that we see this side of apartheid oppression coming out in the liberation literature . |
| 6 | If that was n't enough , what in heaven 's name is that lethal figure running around in the hold , like some latter-day Frankenstein 's monster ? ’ |
| 7 | It 's just to keep it tidy for me and your mummy coming down in the morning son . |
| 8 | Thereafter , several research papers were published on the Lewisian complex , including Dearnley ( 1962 ) , Myers ( 1970 , 1971 ) , Coward ( 1972 , 1973 ) and Coward & and ; Graham ( 1973 ) ; and other papers have been concerned with the geology of the igneous complex of south Harris , and in particular , the anorthosite intrusion cropping out in the south east ( Davidson 1943 ; Dearnley 1963 ) . |
| 9 | Longman ) of the owner of a chain of ten shops who suspected that his level of sales was a function of the number of shoppers per hour passing by in the street , and the floor area of a given store . |
| 10 | Surely not all that protein synthesis going on in the absence of the inhibitor could be about learning and memory ; some other fundamental aspects of behaviour must be affected ? |
| 11 | I see not the slightest prospect with the scale of introduction of these alien wedges into the population of our cities , of a community attitude growing up in the future . |
| 12 | Even as a child growing up in the Fifties , she and her sister , Marlene , preferred to spend their sixpence pocket money on animal welfare classes run by a local RSPCA inspector rather than go to the cinema . |
| 13 | ‘ I know from other work going on in the south of Shetland that 10 per cent of the residents there remain concerned about the possibility of major long-term health effects , ’ he said . |
| 14 | He 's got to fulfil all three roles , and the more managerial work going on in the office , the harder it is to find the time to do the work for the clients , which is what produces the fees . |
| 15 | Michael Holly was an unremarkable boy growing up in the suburbs of south-west London . |
| 16 | The poem is thus curiously " displaced " , a late Victorian work turning up in the crisp 1930s , the Auden decade . |
| 17 | Meanwhile there 's nothing mystical about the version of Sumo wrestling going on in the city centre . |
| 18 | Masklin supposed it was the machine 's equivalent of a nome getting up in the morning . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , shades of Intel Inside , expect to see a PowerPC image campaign starting up in the second half . |
| 20 | Erm I 've got a girl sitting down in the foyer . |
| 21 | Half an hour later he was seated on her couch reading a financial magazine she subscribed to while in the kitchen a cheesecake was defrosting in the microwave , and a home-made lasagne warming up in the oven . |
| 22 | There ought to be enough intelligence sloshing around in the world for humans to have some too . |
| 23 | There 's a lot of change going on in the game at the moment , which is always a healthy sign . |
| 24 | there is some change going on in the rural economy and perhaps he does want to interpret it as er a revolution which the communists can actually get involved in so he 's writing his paper and saying look , this is happening it may not be a rel revolution , but it |
| 25 | Erm all I 'm sure about is that there was this change going on in the rurar econ |
| 26 | Yeah , music we 've normally got some noise going on in the background . |
| 27 | It is difficult to avoid the further thought that the given characterization of consciousness is elliptical , and that when it is filled in , as it must be , we are no further ahead , but have our definiendum turning up in the definiens . |
| 28 | Any tendency to increase the ratio of surface area to weight would help , for example flaps of skin growing out in the angles of joints . |
| 29 | The data allow the medical school greater control over the teaching going on in the hospitals . |
| 30 | I think er , and Pam says there 's a sort of post sticking up in the ceiling or something ? |