Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] in their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Music began with the beating of a tabor and the whistle of pipes , and then the servers began trooping in in their dozens with great platters of heaped food and jugs of ale . |
| 2 | Tommy took charge again as the lads of Number Eleven Platoon lurched from pub to pub becoming drunker and drunker , before finally ending up in their established local , the Volunteer , on Leith Walk . |
| 3 | the female provarian no the female preference to male clothes , B , children , children 's habit of dressing up in their own parents ' clothes , C , a morbid fear of eggs ? |
| 4 | All the teachers bouncing about in their flower-power gear , trying to get you to dance with them , and old Fungus Williams playing his ancient records . |
| 5 | Nonesuch reverts to its old function , keeping the University as a whole together , telling graduates what is going on in their old alma mater , and keeping them up to date with what their contemporaries are doing . |
| 6 | Ca n't they look at what 's going on in their own lives and find anything interesting ? ’ |
| 7 | We can , we can badger our MPs and erm until they do and , and because they are oblivious to a lot of things that are going on in their own , you know till we put it in front of them . |
| 8 | They do not realise what is going on in their own backyard . |
| 9 | Once and if they learnt of what was going on in their own backgardens , they may change their views . |
| 10 | I thought that I 'd let all you people who are n't fortunate enough to get the yorkshire evening post ( YEP ) know what 's going on in their weekly United Insight column . |
| 11 | From the internationally known names — such as press secretary Marlin Fitzwater — to anonymous civil servants , they will be packing their bags and moving on in their hundreds . |
| 12 | SCOTLAND made it three wins on the trot in the Home International Indoor Championships in Swansea yesterday despite losing out in their final fixture with England , 106-113 . |
| 13 | This is a designated training post for doctors starting out in their medical careers , during which they should acquire greater responsibility for patient care and competence in a wide range of general skills . |
| 14 | You 'll be very good , if left carrying on in their own world , for the rest of their time . |
| 15 | She was a big clumsy woman in middle age , her figure gone , a greedy eater , probably greedy about everything , greedy in the way clouds were greedy when they obscured the sun , just when she was sitting out in their neat little garden in Chadlington Road . |
| 16 | They 're just sitting around in their warm staff-rooms , chewing the fat , while the kids are sent home to get into mischief . |
| 17 | The Panel Chairman told the parents that their children were well , settling down in their foster homes , and that some were going to school . |
| 18 | The rock-climber is held on a rope by clipping himself on to a harness thingy ( if you 've come to this book for technical information , boy are you going to be disappointed ) that straps round his thighs and crotch , so as a quick guide to who the climbers are in the pub , just watch for those who seem to be constantly fiddling around in their genital area . |