Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , she 's hit the headlines on numerous occasions , what with smashing up the inside of a taxi a couple of years ago and then being done for speeding twice in the space of about 15 minutes . |
| 2 | No , I would say that if an independent assessor has been dispatched to this is a good point worth bringing through in the event of erm a disagreement between ourselves and a policy holder , the policy holder has a number of aspects that they can they can approach . |
| 3 | This is no night for hanging about in the air . ’ |
| 4 | The immediate remedy is usually to petition for winding up in the public interest , so that a provisional liquidator ( the Official Receiver ) can be appointed , halting the company 's activities . |
| 5 | It may seem tame stuff after helping out in the privatising of British Airways . |
| 6 | WORLD 500cc motorcycle champion Wayne Rainey is critical in hospital after crashing badly in the Italian Grand Prix at Misano . |
| 7 | And Jackson , who caused upset when he held his nose after touching down in the Ivory Coast , plans to perform extra dates in Africa . |
| 8 | And the singer , who caused upset when he held his nose after touching down in the Ivory Coast , plans to perform extra dates in Africa ‘ to make amends ’ . |
| 9 | After driving strongly in the top six , he fell victim to what he later described as ‘ Formula Ford driving ’ by Jean Alesi in the Ferrari F92A . |
| 10 | Northern Ireland international striker Colin Clarke retains his place in Portsmouth 's team for the home League game against Tranmere after scoring twice in the FA Cup victory at Middlesbrough in midweek . |
| 11 | Obediently Hank got a plate , took two slices of bread from the breadbox , and , after rummaging about in the refrigerator , found some luncheon meat , a glass of milk and a cardboard cup of ice cream . |
| 12 | Rhos Quarry closed in 1953 — a godsend to Evan 's health as well as his career — and after working briefly in the forestry plantations he was taken on as the first National Nature Reserve Warden of the newly-formed Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 13 | This is an attractive idea , but for most adults the goal of learning through communicating naturally in the language throughout the day will , sadly , never be a practical one ; we have to continue to make use of something like formal classroom teaching because of the limited time and resources available . |
| 14 | Mr Adnan Khashoggi , a Saudi arms dealer , is being tried with her , accused of helping out in the property deals . |
| 15 | By the mid-1970s our collective view was that , with a few notable exceptions , Soviet technology was on a distinctly inferior plane to that found in the major Western industrial countries and , moreover , had shown no signs of catching up in the previous 15–20 years . |
| 16 | There was no question of easing off in the second half . |
| 17 | With severe skills shortages looming , UK companies must promote more women to the most senior positions if they are to stand any chance of competing globally in the next century . |
| 18 | Despite a boom in interest in the early '80s , with one hundred and fifty authorities considering contracting out in the years 1982/83 , only thirty-seven actually did so . |
| 19 | There were two mortar explosions over by the road , then all was fairly quiet except for the sound of firing away in the distance at the other end of the village , where I had been earlier on in the evening . |
| 20 | Locals tend to stick to the pleasures of eating out in the evening , but there are a few spots in town for night revels . |
| 21 | In present times the system is in danger of dying out in the Point district , as so many of the men and women have regular employment in town . |
| 22 | Housebound and often in severe pain , Mr McTear says that it can take him 30 minutes to recover his breath from the simple act of walking downstairs in the morning . |
| 23 | 49% of you are more afraid of driving alone in the dark than you used to be . |
| 24 | Until this moment I 'd felt incapable of operating effectively in the world ; I did n't know how to do it ; events tossed me about . |
| 25 | The strain of living there in the weeks to come would be intolerable . |
| 26 | Instead of acting instantly in the ‘ greater interested of the game ’ and convincing Dubroca to do the honourable thing — which would have cut short the entire argument — they tried to sweep the story under the carpet . |
| 27 | Despite living virtually in the shadow of Terry Nation all through his Doctor Who career , Whitaker was the natural choice when Gerry Davis and Sydney Newman came to revise the Doctor 's character for Patrick Troughton in 1966 . |
| 28 | ‘ I think it 's a matter of stumbling around in the dark until we find a clue , ’ Loretta said gratefully . |
| 29 | Of course , one of the advantages of waking up in the night in a sweat is that you tend to have your best ideas whilst failing to get back to sleep . |
| 30 | We need some way of deciding where in the graph we should start . |