Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another powerful reason why improved mud buildings are not catching on in the tropical Third World is that for poor families , housing is not the first priority . |
| 2 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |
| 3 | There seems little chance of one of the party 's senior professionals stepping down in the next few months to create a by-election for the Tory chairman . |
| 4 | We were early for band call and , except for a gap-toothed , long-haired hippie groping along in the opposite direction , seemed to be alone . |
| 5 | But both had to give way to Larne AC 's flying doctor Peter Howie who produced his best ever run by storming through in the closing stages to grab the runner up spot . |
| 6 | New opportunities are opening up in the near future which you must be calm enough to accept . |
| 7 | The nearby fishing village of Porthleven was also badly hit , with a 14ft-deep hole opening up in the back garden of one house . |
| 8 | Faced with a new branch of nationwide chain opening up in the next street leading to falling sales at one 's own bookshop , a bookseller might go for interviews with customers leaving the new store . |
| 9 | The expensive new shops , restaurants , casinos and nightclubs opening up in the status-conscious post-Soviet capital are often given Western names , which represent luxury to the city 's chic new bourgeoisie. — Reuter |
| 10 | Who 's been gossiping to you about her running away with the married man when she was fifteen and ending up in the Daily Record ? |
| 11 | In general , they tend to follow a more or less logical sequence , starting at the top with a headline ( assuming it is there ) and ending up in the bottom right-hand corner . |
| 12 | If a pregnancy is pre-marital , it trebles the relative risk of a couple ending up in the local authority sector rather than the owner-occupied one ( Murphy , 1983 ) . |
| 13 | The immediate remedy is usually to petition for winding up in the public interest , so that a provisional liquidator ( the Official Receiver ) can be appointed , halting the company 's activities . |
| 14 | ‘ There are thousands , maybe tens of thousands , who are dying out in the rural areas , or as they make their way to the towns to get help . |
| 15 | Evening distractions were few , although we did hear Sinead O'Connor blasting out in the early hours in one village , and we spent one evening joining in with some traditional dancing — the original Twist ! |
| 16 | Spectators gasped in awe at the sight of a ball landing back in the same court . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , the kite that Lord Hanson has flown is bobbing around in the political and financial winds . |
| 18 | The Barbarians were knocking about in the late bronze age and iron age . |
| 19 | From the top of the bank Yanto noticed Billy and Janet wandering off in the opposite direction . |
| 20 | Like slipping away from a sleeping embrace , silently shutting the door behind one , tiptoeing off in the grey light of dawn — a stranger again . |
| 21 | Some 44 per cent of the 65 advertisers interviewed saw the economy picking up in the last quarter of this year at the earliest , and a further 35 per cent did not envisage an improvement until 1993 . |
| 22 | My Lady Dedlock ( who is childless ) , looking out in the early twilight from her boudoir at a keeper 's lodge , and seeing the light of a fire upon the latticed panes , and smoke rising from the chimney , and a child , chased by a woman , running out into the rain to meet the shining figure of a wrapped-up man coming through the gate , has been put quite out of temper . |
| 23 | In vain she may cry , as Gregor Samsa does to his parents , sister and employer , that the same person is there inside , looking out in the same way at the world . |
| 24 | He stood , arms akimbo , looking around in the musty gloom . |
| 25 | ‘ — ten days on St Lucia , swimming around in the pellucid Caribbean waters — ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Other members of the herd are swimming around in the blood-red sea as this killing continues . |
| 27 | The twins , David and Michael , had been prowling about in the front garden waiting for the sight of Belinda 's car , and as soon as she stepped out into the driveway and came up the path to the house they raced ahead of her inside to relay the news of her arrival , without even saying hello to her . |
| 28 | There was no question of easing off in the second half . |
| 29 | They keep on going on in the negative sense and the bulldozing here , has got you digging a big hole , and you eventually fall into it . |
| 30 | This is precisely the limitation of state-centrist approaches and why all analyses that begin and end with nation-states have such difficulty in finding explanations of what is going on in the global system . |