Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] in a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will be living together in a very small space . |
| 2 | Bill the dog , happy as ever to be out and about , was sniffing everything in sight , his tail whirling round in a completely circular motion like a helicopter rotor ; Eddie , however , having no tail to wag , was simply smiling , something he 's very good at . |
| 3 | Mr Kinnock 's voice was choked with emotion as , refusing to concede defeat , he said : ‘ Even now as the recounts are going on in a very large number of seats the results of this election is not decided . ’ |
| 4 | They have been frequently invited to international festivals , but this will be the first time they have visited our own festival — we have been waiting patiently in a very long queue ! |
| 5 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 6 | They swiftly organise a counter-attack and fight their way out of the farm buildings , heading off in a most unexpected direction , not at all within the design of battle envisaged by the officer cadet commanding the operation . |
| 7 | The next thing I do remember is waking up in a very grand house a few streets away from where the robbery took place . |
| 8 | Let us consider the poverty of understanding which a child growing up in a religiously deprived background might have of one of the most evocative concepts in religious language , that of " heaven " . |
| 9 | But it is possible for people growing up in a totally different culture to see kingship in terms of tyranny , in which case they would receive the statement that God is like a king as meaning that God is tyrannical , even some kind of dictator , so that religion resembles a prison rather than paradise . |
| 10 | Finally I reached Maymyo , to find my family camping out in a very small house , all three children down with scarlet fever . |
| 11 | Now this is people 's traditional expectation and they still have it , whereas we 're of the mind that instead of this er you 've very cleverly got in this circle and the last day that I suddenly realized that we 're all equal and moving around in a reasonably organized manner but still we 're rather loose , whereas the traditional view is a parish councillor says it and everybody does the rest , with a few er renegades and revolutionaries at varying parts in your parish . |
| 12 | Occasionally , I caught glimpses of Shelley through the vines , skipping about in a somewhat girlish manner between the two houses and the little landing stage where their boats were moored ; there were a collection of rowing boats and a masted boat with a deck which Claire referred to as ‘ the schooner ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Ma 's coming up in a little , Ethel too . |
| 14 | ( For relatively poor States , whose residents would benefit most from programmes designed to aid those suffering from poverty , refusal to participate would mean losing out in a potentially redistributive process . ) |
| 15 | A solution of common salt contains sodium ions and chloride ions jostling about in a more or less chaotic fashion . |
| 16 | They 're floating around in a very , I mean Today was the worst . |
| 17 | A tempting short cut is often suggested by numerology , fiddling around in a totally ad hoc way with formulae to produce a ( more or less ) numerical fit to some data . |
| 18 | Hailey envisaged a system of regional councils , with a nominated membership drawn from native authorities and town councils , functioning initially in a largely consultative capacity but eventually being given legislative powers . |
| 19 | From a staging point of view the PGA and the Tour , working together in a very harmonious way , should be delighted with the way it all worked out . |