Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [noun prp] the [noun] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | In the wake of Dutskche 's wounding in Berlin the Nanterre students descended on the Sorbonne , the ancient university of Paris . |
2 | While holidaying in Scotland the couple became committed Christians and Andrew believes his recovery was God 's will . |
3 | As an example , let us briefly consider some aspects of spelling in Havelok the Dane . |
4 | IBM Austin , or at least some faction there , is seriously interested in becoming a system software supplier — a viable alternative to Microsoft Corp and Unix System Labs — and sees remarketing Mach 3 as the way to do it , according to a report out of an OSF Research Institute meeting in Boston the week before last . |
5 | Beginning in August the museum will present a complementary long-term display from the existing permanent collection , featuring the Sackler 's best Korean paintings , gilt bronzes , lacquers and ceramics . |
6 | They watched enthralled and motionless as a window-catch in the shape of a hook jiggled in the wind , and then flew open , letting in Hook the abductor to make off with Peter Pan 's two children . |
7 | Yet he proceeded to declare that by refraining from exercising in America the power of the executive which it controlled in Great Britain , Parliament would preserve the unity of the Empire : |
8 | Tania 's mother , Jackie May , said her daughter had been due to attend a court hearing in Gloucester the day after her disappearance last Wednesday . |
9 | Since arriving in Perugia the Neapolitan 's days had been spent slumped in the Alfetta in the car park beneath Zen 's office window , reading comics and listening to the radio . |
10 | But for those living and working in London the decisions made last week by the government ( see p 537 ) have to face a harder test . |