Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though literary festivals could be immensely enjoyable , especially if they took you to some pleasant distant city , like Toronto or Adelaide , there was something absurd about writers gathering together in this way . |
| 2 | There are many who will never forget that sad time but now the East Lindsey coastline has a happy atmosphere ; sometimes throbbing with the joy of summer seaside thrills but more constantly pulsating gently in natural tranquility , . |
| 3 | This huge old hospital is known by the Milanese as the Ca'Grande , or ‘ Great House ’ , and was built by Francesco Sforza in 1456 as a way of bringing together in one place about thirty little hospitals which had grown up around the Porta Romana . |
| 4 | The fact of the matter is that it is not , as I have explained to the right hon. Gentleman on many occasions , happening only in this country . |
| 5 | POLICE are hunting two youths who snatched a handbag from a woman walking alone in broad daylight . |
| 6 | Men passed us , dark , bearded , stern , armed with sticks , walking swiftly in single file . |
| 7 | Suddenly , somewhere off to the rear , came an yell of alarm and the roar of a shotgun going off , followed by three more blasting off in quick succession . |
| 8 | This morning I observed all of them returning home in single file after their dawn patrol around the valley and as usual mother was leading the way with father in the middle keeping the unruly youngsters in hand . |
| 9 | In most of these countries there 's now a price tag on these toys cum- objets d'art and they are even ending up in rarefied art galleries . |
| 10 | ‘ A sepulchre of windy shams ’ says Hewlett , squaring up in excellent form to the classical urbanity of San Biagio . |
| 11 | The hospital 's central heating had been doing a fine job of drying everything on me and I felt like one of those old-fashioned clothes-horses , steaming slightly in warm air . |
| 12 | The patient may then practise walking sideways in similar fashion round the plinth . |
| 13 | ‘ In that case , why are Dr Darnell and I walking around in one piece ? |
| 14 | He lay on the ground thrashing around in great pain , strange choked gurgling sounds escaping from his throat . |
| 15 | In the north-west corner , four different birds are nesting in close company — the mute swan regally aloft on its large and bulky nest , looking down upon a coot nesting nearby in lesser estate , with two nests of great crested grebes almost awash amongst the reeds close by . |
| 16 | After a hundred years of ambling forward in happy confusion , the time has surely come for a new broom or brooms to sweep clean . |
| 17 | But landing safely in torrential rain , with a squally and unpredictable wind , can only be a matter of luck for the most skilled pilot . |
| 18 | There are many things to be done to assist Kenya , but we know that we can help it best by keeping quietly in constant discussion with it . |
| 19 | foloowing on in that period — another wicket down — Phil Weston 's caught Taylor bowled Holdsworth — Worcestershire now 151 behind the tourists |
| 20 | The traffic and the crowds were passing interminably in each direction , as they had been all the time . |
| 21 | In nearly every street in Whitechapel there was a Levy or a Cohen , an Abrahams , Moses or Grossman — sometimes living together in one area , sometimes striking out on their own . |
| 22 | None of us had ever been here before and we were all living together in one flat , which we called Pig Mansions , in Earls Court . |
| 23 | It is always dangerously easy to write superficially about human relationships , particularly this one of the mother and daughter living together in old age , picturing them enjoying endless winter evenings by the fire , with never a cross word , and long summer afternoons in a garden of roses , sitting in deckchairs on a lawn that never needs mowing . |
| 24 | Different cultures should be understood as different paths towards the same basic goal — that of living together in relative peace , in communion with one another and our environment . |
| 25 | Living together in physical union is marriage . |
| 26 | Back in the spacecraft she found herself weightless , coasting along in empty space . |
| 27 | The other issues deserve their own extensive studies though they are referred to in passing elsewhere in this book . ) |
| 28 | The bravery of men swimming ashore in these pioneer beach reconnaissances is beyond question , and knowing Norman Teacher as a friend , as well as being his CO , the Commander feels there is a strong probability that the young Lieutenant made the supreme sacrifice in swimming to his death rather than risking his capture , as others , too , may have done . |
| 29 | Eliza was under no illusions that this meant they would be spending more time together : ‘ John , of course , will not remain there long , ’ she told her mother , ‘ but be wandering off in some direction … ’ . |
| 30 | That 's the thing that needs bucking up in this school … |