Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other behavioural strategies included eating slowly in a room away from the kitchen , preparing all food thoroughly before starting to eat , rather than eating standing up during cooking . |
| 2 | Across the emptying room another hurt mind had been at the same moment of time glanced by unwanted evocations of shabby Forest sheep nudging together in a brick shelter on a high road through the trees . |
| 3 | Air and earth , she told herself again , her brows drawing together in a grimace . |
| 4 | He saw Maud once in the Kurfûrstendamm , eating alone in a cafe and looking a little desolate , with a stack of coins already piled beside her plate although her meal had only just come . |
| 5 | There are occasions when the relationship between Voight 's big , blond , likeable dimwit , ludicrously decked out in cowboy gear , and Dustin 's small , greasy-haired , pallid , crippled down-and-outer is touchingly and humorously portrayed , particularly the moment when Buck 's face lights up on seeing an unshaven Ratso eating alone in a diner . |
| 6 | – I dare say that when I strip the tank down in the future I 'll find a mixed colony lurking somewhere in a corner ! |
| 7 | Gurder was lurking suspiciously in a patch of shadow by the door when they came past , arms and legs going like pistons . |
| 8 | If you are driving alone in a car , do not stop to pick up hitch-hikers , always lock all your doors if you are sitting in a parked car and do not roll down the window to give a suspicious looking stranger directions . |
| 9 | Glancing about the big , lofty room , he saw an elderly merchant snoring gently in a corner , hands folded over his well-rounded belly . |
| 10 | I want you — take me , ’ she whispered , twisting now in a way not designed to keep him away . |
| 11 | Springfield were the first band Young formed when he came to California , driving there in a hearse all the way from Canada . |
| 12 | However , it is clear that the parents will often not admit their true feelings about the child and the incident , acting rather in a way which they perceive to be desirable in the circumstances , to gain the return of their children . |
| 13 | They bought the wine , then drove on , the time passing swiftly in a blur of easy laughter and pleasant conversation . |
| 14 | I confess I should hardly venture to hope that more than two millions of skilled workers , representing a population of five millions , are living habitually in a state of ease and comparative security of the modest sort … |
| 15 | Security chiefs were meeting today in a bid to counter the current upsurge in loyalist violence which has claimed four lives in as many days . |
| 16 | This was achieved using a grade-separated interchange with A71 traffic flowing through a new roundabout at ground level and the bypass traffic passing beneath in a cutting formed in very stiff boulder clay . |
| 17 | The day the hens came , squawking faintly in a crate from Grove Farm , Aunt Emily received a note from Mrs Langley . |
| 18 | On the front page was a story about an old man who had lain dead in his council flat for eighteen months until Gas Board workers had discovered him , a blurred photograph of some local women who were going somewhere in a body to protest about something and a larger picture of a council dignitary opening some sort of centre and looking pleased with himself . |
| 19 | Black-headed gulls circled , spiralling skywards in a current of warm air . |
| 20 | That it was all undignified , that it was really rather unpleasant , that it was somehow dehumanizing for Harold — these considerations went by the board as he finally rolled on top of her , grunting fiercely in a tone no one at Magdalen would have recognized . |
| 21 | Mid autumn grass ( partly senescent ) again growing naturally in a garden , was cut with shears , shaken to remove excess moisture , and placed firstly between sheets of newspaper and then on seven baking trays . |
| 22 | She 's going away in a couple of weeks with the Brownies |
| 23 | Goodey making a change for the benefit of the scheme members paying into a scheme , rather than employers going away in a contribution holiday . |
| 24 | But a tantalising fragment of a thirteenth Ransome novel envisages the three Death and Glory boys stowing away in a cruiser which is being sent by road to the Lake in the North . |
| 25 | Oh I ca n't be bothered I 'm going home in a minute . |
| 26 | I 'm going home in a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Youre going home in a coma , home in a coma , youre going home in a coma ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Youre going home in a coma , home in a coma , youre going home in a coma ’ |
| 29 | If you 're going further in a set over a a set |
| 30 | Lying face-downwards in a tangle of strings was a puppet fully five feet high , a sylphide in a fountain of white tulle , fallen flat down as if someone had got tired of her in the middle of playing with her , dropped her and wandered off . |