Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Cept there 's more goin' on in the evenin 's with First Aid and the like . ’ |
| 2 | Somehow I ca n't see it catching on in the way Play-Doh did . |
| 3 | ‘ Also I ca n't see cafes catching on in the North , we have n't got the weather to sit outside . ’ |
| 4 | Yamaha staff will be making a return visit to the region to discover how the Japanese style of music teaching is catching on in the North-East . |
| 5 | Nowadays , struggling on in the name of Islamic socialism , Algeria is a place of austerity , one of the few countries on earth where you ca n't get Coca-Cola . |
| 6 | Many mujaheddin leaders were reported to be abroad and it was thought that Mujjaddedi , leader of the smallest mujaheddin group as well as of an influential Sufi brotherhood , was trying to delay stepping down in the hope that on their return they would support his continuation in office . |
| 7 | maybe like Todd 's standing by the lake yeah and Jim 's like pissed out of his head and comes driving along in the truck and drives his truck into the lake or something . |
| 8 | A pick up a penguin right , great , come on then Jeff say something pardon it did n't pick that up he said bollocks , Jeff just said bollocks , that 's good oh if tonight we would , see me driving along in the car and got that on , oh no , it 'll be really funny , we 're gon na be sitting there going come on as if we 'd said that today |
| 9 | The little man was ambling along in the middle of the street , looking around him with an expression of keen interest . |
| 10 | On reconnaissance nights , the submarine had to use precious hours of moonless darkness while she charged her batteries before trimming down in the water with her saddle-tanks just awash , the slight swell breaking occasionally over the casing . |
| 11 | Take the heat out by having cool showers ( use a water-resistant suncream if you 're cooling down in the pool ) and use an aftersun lotion to ease the tingling and to stop your skin drying out . |
| 12 | One day , Mildred was walking along in the park it was very , very hot and she was very , very tired ! |
| 13 | Hatton had been walking along in the dark and someone had waited for him among the willows and the brambles , the stone ready for use . |
| 14 | It 's like I 'm just floating down the street , just a head bobbing along in the water . |
| 15 | He then grabbed all her feathers and threw them in the gutter before storming off in the direction of the Black Bull . |
| 16 | The East Belfast man ca n't put a foot over the door of his Cregagh Road home without first stripping off in the garden . |
| 17 | After she had washed and dressed in warm cord trousers , leather boots and a thick sweater , she this time took the precaution of collecting her anorak before going out to her car and driving off in the direction of Great Yarmouth . |
| 18 | This is one respect in which we can see regional differences opening up in the kind of support which relatives can give to each other , although we know very little about how these matters are handled in families at the present time . |
| 19 | The famous $18,000m black hole that Gartner Group so memorably spotted opening up in the heart of IBM 's business will suck the entire company into oblivion if it does n't embark on a crash programme to save the AS/400 . |
| 20 | A happier fate than ending up in the cooking pot at Berkeley Castle . |
| 21 | With a sharp pang of defeat , he noticed Benny dive headlong through the weakened window , ending up in the water below with a huge splash . |
| 22 | Connections of Laurel Queen , Walking The Plank and Buzzards Bellbuoy the trio to sneak in at the bottom of the race will have to send them a percentage if ending up in the money . |
| 23 | Or the black Broadway actor who always fears ending up in the gutter . |
| 24 | Beautiful cover showing a window opening into the past for this time travel tale about an Oxford student stepping back into the Middle Ages to finish her thesis and ending up in the middle of the plague . |
| 25 | While a gravel tidy with too fine a mesh will soon block , one with too large a mesh can see the fry ending up in the gravel bed below and the parents trying to get at them . |
| 26 | So should not the law be changed immediately to prevent the likes of Dr Cox ending up in the dock ? |
| 27 | As we entered the kitchen Pat looked up at the roof and the large gaping hole caused by a shell that had passed through two floors then smashed through the kitchen door , ending up in the garden . |
| 28 | He did n't want her cracking up in the middle of the Season . |
| 29 | ‘ One thing 's sure — you wo n't be spending part of this evening mopping up in the kitchen ! ’ |
| 30 | They keep landing up in the middle . |