Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can imagine animals like these darting through the undergrowth in search of food while the colossal reptiles lumbered obliviously around them . |
| 2 | In the British case ( and Saunders makes it clear that he is generalising about the home in British society ) the best way in which the occupant of a house can acquire ontological security is through being its owner . |
| 3 | Now , by analysing a sample of customer addresses by ACORN he or she can set sales targets for each ACORN type ; and by allowing for the population in each type in each sales territory , he or she can set quotas which relate directly to the potential for business in each area . |
| 4 | For this writer it began when , shortly after stepping off the plane in Johannesburg , it became apparent that a few stitches sustained by the All Black winger Terry Wright in a training accident was deemed as worthy a front page news story as the continuous blood-letting in the Natal townships between rival ANC and Inkatha factions . |
| 5 | Textbooks catering for the upsurge in legal education in the 1950s and 1960s sought to capture in print the mysterious unwritten secrets of a constitution which had emerged into the democratic world without appearing to have changed at all . |
| 6 | In a very short time , the two of them , together with Mrs Diggory , were fussing about the dog in the library , with bowls of warm water , blankets , an old sheet torn in strips , and even some milk laced with laudanum unearthed from the late Lady Merchiston 's store of medicines in the attics . |
| 7 | Men were struggling through the crowd in the street , a ladder between them . |
| 8 | Firefighters cut the man free as ambulance workers saved him from drowning after the accident in Teesdale . |
| 9 | Inevitably , I am elaborating after the event in intellectual terms . |
| 10 | But I was not surprised when , several years later , I read that Sir Robert Armstrong , appearing for the government in the Spycatcher trial in Sydney , had admitted to cross-examining counsel that he had been what he called ‘ economical with the truth ’ . |
| 11 | When she had chosen the least remarkable and staggered downstairs in a pair of high-heeled purple boots the others got their revenge by wheezing about the room in hysterics once more . |
| 12 | There were meadow browns , small skippers , and even painted ladies flitting among the tall flowering grasses on the canal bank , bending them over as they settled , knocking off the pollen in puffs of fine , yellow mist . |
| 13 | All the time he and Rufus were living it up , driving about the countryside in Goblander , driving to London once to buy marijuana from the dealer Rufus knew in Notting Hill , drinking and smoking ( as he had put it ) Hilbert 's furniture away , all that time Vivien and her boyfriend Shiva were making arrangements to join Ecalpemos . |
| 14 | ‘ Secondly , there is no doubt that Rentokil has pioneered , and is pioneering , new services that are contributing towards the environment in which we all live and work . |
| 15 | ‘ David , what is it ? ’ she pleaded , disbelieving of the change in him . |
| 16 | About 200 people reported seeing some kind of craft landing near the base in 1980 . |
| 17 | She was a large , cheerful lady with bad varicose ulcers which she was constantly banging against the furniture in her house on non-Varicose Vein Clinic days . |
| 18 | One can see him grappling with the difficulty in his poem-cum-essay ‘ The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm 's Son ’ , published in 1953 , the year before The Fellowship of the Ring . |
| 19 | ‘ Confidential informant ’ , like ‘ cooperating individual ’ , usually means that the snitch in question was , or is , engaged in drug trafficking and cooperating with the DEA in order to avoid imprisonment . |
| 20 | returning with the plate in a few moments . |
| 21 | There he had stared in amazement as Durkin came chugging up the drive in a cloud of black smoke , driving that wonder of the age , an automobile . |
| 22 | Lowell , driving up the road in the opposite direction , had witnessed the collision — a minor one — and decided to do nothing about it . |
| 23 | I have a memory of walking up the street in this small farm town in up-state New York and buying The Monkees first record when I was five or six years old . |
| 24 | As a result , he once stopped his car as I was walking up the track in Monaco , opened his door and said , ‘ Hop in . ’ |
| 25 | Later , walking along the prom in the deep silence of that foggy early morning , she tried to taunt herself out of her depression : ‘ You never learn , do you ? |
| 26 | One day , waiting in the car in Albion Street to pick up my brother-in-law from work ( he looks like Norman Lamont , incidently , but she loves him dearly ) , she suddenly saw me , her brother who 's supposed to be living in exile down south , walking along the road in the company of a glamorous lady . |
| 27 | As the train approached the main line , from the sidings , the locomotive 's second man drew the driver 's attention to the shadowy figure of a tramp walking along the line in front of them . |
| 28 | As the impossible dream drew closer , Allison began to bait rival fans by walking along the touchline in his fedora and making outrageous Muhammad Ali-style pre-match predictions . |
| 29 | Who sang Walking In The Air in the film The Snowman ? |
| 30 | representing that , but you know and I know that it did n't stay like that , I do n't know how long , but it did n't stay like it for very long because sin crept in , that circle was marred , it was twisted , that intermit original fellowship with God was broken , let me read you a verse there in Genesis chapter three and verse eight , it 's , it 's Adam and Eve it says they heard the sound of the lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the lord God among the trees of the garden , for the first time since Adam had first been created they hide from God , they hear him coming , it 's the time when God will come , and they hear him that were walking through the garden using picture language , and they go and hide , they 're ashamed to see him , they do n't want to look upon him , something has happened that perfect circle has been marred , what it was like yesterday , things are different now , there 's that unclean feeling , there 's that guilt complex , we 've done it wrong , we 've failed to keep what God 's said , we 've broken the rules and when you break the rules , it 's not just the rules that are broken is it , you know it and I know it , in relationships , it 's not just the rules that get broken , it 's the relationship is marred . |