Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilson , of 8th Signals , Catterick Garrison , had just bought it after deliberately going in search of the drug because he wanted to try it , the court martial was told . |
| 2 | I think it 's also worth just bearing in mind that we 're talking about only one percent of the erm of the farmed land i in this county , we 're not talking about banning hunting in in er in Leicestershire , we 're talking about what we 're saying on one percent there are tens of thousand of fields in in this county nothing can change overnight , even if this er motion goes through because the tenants will still have the rights to decide , it 's only when you actually start getting to new tenancy agreements that you will be in a position if you wish , to start to change things and therefore I suppose at the end of erm , at the end of five years you might have a hundred or two hundred fields on which this ban will apply but you will still have tens of thousand of fields on which the , the hunt will still be , the hunts in this county will still be free to , erm , to operate . |
| 3 | He then telephoned Ken Berry , to begin the task of urgently calling in money from abroad . |
| 4 | They could n't understand the practice of mainly worshipping in silence and without a minister , or without the trappings of church rituals . |
| 5 | Even then she had found it difficult to get up in the morning , had begged and pleaded to be allowed to lie in a little longer , had gone back to sleep more often than not , the forerunner , Cecilia supposed , of her present practice of often lying in bed till noon . |
| 6 | But instead of simply struggling in embarrassment they can turn to their advisers and ask for help : " What do I say now ? " , |
| 7 | A final difficulty associated with attempts to formulate a sentencing tariff arises from the coexistence of other sentencing aims alongside that of simply punishing in proportion to the offender 's ‘ just deserts ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ There is a doctor near here specialising in candida sufferers who sends his patients to eat here , ’ said Rex . |
| 9 | So , so , you know , for a lot of , I would n't say a lot , but there is a , a group in the population that are basically concerned with just surviving in agriculture , and would n't even consider , even if they are , say have got a high IQ or something , they just physically ca n't migrate because of the cost . |
| 10 | It is best treated with relaxation therapy and with just lying in bed , resting , even if sleep does not come . |
| 11 | The difficulty was that he could not enjoy this camaraderie without also falling in love with one of the boys , and by doing so he once again cast himself in an outsider position . |
| 12 | I am also concerned that after this debate there will be no winners not even the fox , for it will be killed it will be killed in some way or another and the feelings that are left between the two differing sides will harbour grudges and resentment for many months to come and I 'd like to also bearing in mind the comments that were made by Councillor ask how committed the people who have proposed this mo motion are against barbaric sport . |
| 13 | The General rose from behind his enormous mahogany desk , without visibly gaining in stature , and came out on to the veranda to see us off . |
| 14 | He lies in a cot equipped with a special mattress which is filled with liquid ; he lies on so resilient a surface that it is very close to actually lying in liquid , as of course the unborn infant does . |
| 15 | However such applications must be looked at carefully bearing in mind the whole environmental question . |
| 16 | This approach has enormously suggestive potential for analysis of listening , for it fully accepts the significance of new perceptual attitudes and situations while by-passing or at least putting in question the usual , too easy Adorn Ian assumptions of passivity . |
| 17 | Also throughout the branches of physical geography it was necessary to convince members of other disciplines that physical geographers had a contribution to make and this had to be done by showing what could be done rather than by simply stating in advance that a physical geographer had much to contribute . |