Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three people were released by Billingham firemen after becoming trapped in a lift at Dawson House , Billingham . |
| 2 | Any failure to develop and promote a range of options — or the production of services ill-suited to real needs — deepens the likelihood of casework becoming trapped in a rut of ‘ patch and mend ’ activities . |
| 3 | There was a compact flowered sofa in one corner , and she sat on it , trying to find something absorbing to do in a hotel room that was deprived of any literature apart from the hotel menu and some self-congratulatory stuff about the hotel itself . |
| 4 | SOUTH Africa 's State President , Mr FW de Klerk , yesterday suffered the first serious blow to his reputation as the great reformer by appearing to acquiesce in a cover-up of political murders carried out by state agencies , including the police . |
| 5 | Living to live in a world of time beyond me ; let me |
| 6 | Jim Lewis was in his office studying an X-ray film , as Lindsey made her way to Reception , pausing to drop in a report . |
| 7 | ‘ We therefore expect widespread interest from a variety of types of companies looking to relocate in a town with the high quality of life Southport has to offer particularly to the golf enthusiast . ’ |
| 8 | It reflects , in particular , the difficulties for any Socialist ( or Labour ) Party seeking to govern in a world of unregulated capital flow . |
| 9 | It is quite insane to imagine that you are going to sit in a restaurant adding up calories and grams of fibre . |
| 10 | He was n't going to sit in a bog to eat his Sunday dinner , was he ? |
| 11 | She needed it for the letter she was going to write in a minute to Nora . |
| 12 | I 'm going to scream in a minute ! |
| 13 | Finally they found a cheap bottle of sherry , which had been won in a church bazaar , lying forgotten in a drawer . |
| 14 | their gossamer and rose leaves , are turning to dust in a drawer ; |
| 15 | ‘ We 're not going to engage in a trade war , ’ he said . |
| 16 | We are going to Hebden Bridge , they are going to partake in a spot of rather more radical rambling . ’ |
| 17 | The dearth of new commercial building projects means the stockpile — equivalent to 14 weeks sales for Ibstock — is not going to shrink in a hurry . |
| 18 | Erm , it 's the go I mean you , you can or not er , decided whether you 're going to believe in a woman who is so vindictive that she 's going to allow them er , prevent her having her rightful |
| 19 | Similarly , if you are going to fly in a cloud , it is important to understand the possible hazards in order to avoid them . |
| 20 | ‘ My sister is going to model in a charity show . |
| 21 | In this matter she had no desire to wish Doreen luck , because the mere thought of Silas 's naked body lying stretched in a bed beside Doreen 's slim form only served to twist the knife that had stabbed at her previously . |
| 22 | Well if we 're continually in contact with people as growing children who do n't allow us to express our feelings , or who behave in a way that would seem to deny that those feelings of hate and rage and love in their extremes exist at all , then obviously one does n't develop a sense of trust in what one perceives from oneself , and that erm on erm an accumulative basis is going to result in a person who does n't feel terribly confident about the feelings and their awareness that they have . |
| 23 | Virginia was beginning to think they were both going to collapse in a heap , when the spit of tyres on gravel announced the arrival of Guy 's Aston Martin , skidding to an abrupt halt as he saw their plight . |
| 24 | In this programme I 'm going to sketch in a bit of the background , by way of introduction , and in later weeks , various colleagues of mine , concerned with all aspects of the computing world , will be helping me build up the over-all picture . |
| 25 | One thing that I had grasped about the whole business was that we were going to live in a country area where there would be lots of wildlife , and I had heard of King Arthur , of course . |
| 26 | After all , they were going to live in a village they had never even seen , and during the next hour or so they would discover what manner of place their new home was . |
| 27 | If you are going to live in a two-storey , or more , dwelling , choose one with staircases that are a reasonable width , with handrails or bannisters , well lit , with no awkward corners or sudden changes in stair depth and with well-fitting stair carpets . |
| 28 | And now he 's going to marry her , you see if he does n't , and she 's going to live in a mansion with a butler and lots of maids . ’ |
| 29 | It does n't sound quite so good when you put it at that sort of level , cause it puts a school at risk , but of course there 's no reason why a county council should n't borrow considerably more than this council does , looked at on accounting principle , unless I 'm wrong , and Mr I 'm going to call in a minute , will correct me if I am . |
| 30 | How many contracts am I going to get in a year ? |