Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he made his way up , feeling like a schoolboy with skimped prep , his eye caught , with a start of surprise , the rotund shape of Mr Kronweiser , eyes darting suspiciously in all directions , working at a desk . |
| 2 | Wages were pitiful and despite recovering somewhat in certain sectors in the last years before the war , they remained very low . |
| 3 | Only in areas remote from this authority , as in isolated mining settlements , or where the state was itself weak , as in the United States , could bourgeois masters exercise that sort of direct rule , whether by command over the local forces of public authority , by private armies of Pinkerton men , or by banding together in armed groups of ‘ vigilantes ’ to maintain ‘ order ’ . |
| 4 | And when the walls came tumbling down in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989 to reveal cowering and bitter populations , overflowing prisons and mental hospitals , ruthless armies of secret police and state informers , corrupt politicians and equality in misery only , they might have wondered how their parents could have given even a second thought to the self-evidently corrupt , ruthless and authoritarian appeal of the ideal of ‘ World Communism ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 , . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | At any instant the production of small eddies is thus occurring vigorously in some places and only weakly in others . |
| 9 | And that is how we set off , arm-in-arm , down Sunningdale Drive past Sussex Gardens where the bowls players were dying slowly in well-pressed whites , towards the London Road . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The race is challenging enough in normal conditions , but this year the storms had turned the Wye into a torrent . |
| 12 | This is a very high number of cases appearing only in local newspapers , especially because of the imbalance of our sample towards the national papers . |
| 13 | POLICE are hunting two youths who snatched a handbag from a woman walking alone in broad daylight . |
| 14 | A wanderer from Siberia , occurring annually in western Europe in some numbers , mainly in autumn . |
| 15 | Men passed us , dark , bearded , stern , armed with sticks , walking swiftly in single file . |
| 16 | He was particularly keen to establish contacts between the college and what was happening elsewhere in post-war Britain . |
| 17 | The room will be furnished with tatami ( mats ) for walking over in bare feet or socks/tights and seating is on zabuton ( large cushions ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Because of this delay in time , it is perhaps an exaggeration to say that the expansion of English maritime activity between 1460 and 1520 prepared the way for seizing opportunities which were opening up in many parts of the world ( 63 , p.163 ) . |
| 21 | Disappointment was also the reaction of Sealink British Ferries , whose parent company Sea Containers is currently fighting a $1.036 billion bid from Temple Holdings which would involve the UK ferry business ending up in Swedish hands if it succeeds . |
| 22 | This does not reflect a radical social openness or free circulation of agents between social positions , since the offspring of the higher occupational grades still have a much greater relative chance of ending up in those grades than people from lower occupational backgrounds , but all the same it represents de facto social mobility on a large scale . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This proved extremely successful and after several open days farmers began signing up in increasing numbers . |
| 25 | Something under the bed moved softly , rustling like a woman walking past in long skirts — or a soft breeze in high trees . |
| 26 | ‘ A sepulchre of windy shams ’ says Hewlett , squaring up in excellent form to the classical urbanity of San Biagio . |
| 27 | The most extraordinary moments traverse conventional divisions , occurring both in Edenic gardens ( pp. 112 , 146 — 7 ) and the drug-induced languor in darkened recesses of cafés : ‘ to linger there … |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This God-eyed version is a fake — a charming , impossible fake , like those medieval paintings which show all the stages of Christ 's Passion happening simultaneously in different parts of the picture . |
| 30 | The patient may then practise walking sideways in similar fashion round the plinth . |