Example sentences of "[v-ing] in a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mansion becomes a sort of cultural Hades , the extreme tendencies of both characters grappling in an orgy of drugs , sex and violence . |
| 2 | He was walking in a sea of urine and faeces . |
| 3 | Last year , walking in a forest above Lake Geneva , I saw terrible evidence of this as acre after acre of trees seemed to be dying from the top down . |
| 4 | The local bands have not been altogether ousted ; some were taking part in the contests after playing and walking in a procession in the morning and playing at the sports in the afternoon . |
| 5 | Thus Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia , walking in a garden with McFarlane , could hear — naturally as birdsong — that the contras needed $1m a month ; he could pass the word to his uncle , the King ; the King could give the money ; and Reagan would release the Stinger anti-aircraft missiles needed by Saudi Arabia , not in explicit exchange ( nothing so crude ) , but as a reciprocal gesture of princely generosity . |
| 6 | He was also carrying £70,000 which he was depositing in a bank for payment for the work that had just been completed . |
| 7 | There is evidence to suggest that by the time of Euclid these observations were occurring in a cone of vision . |
| 8 | When the turbulent motion is occurring in a flow with a large mean velocity , it is possible for the turbulence to be advected past the point of observation more rapidly than the pattern of fluctuations is changing . |
| 9 | A classic study by S. S. Goldich published in 1938 showed a consistent variation in the stability in the weathering environment of common silicate minerals occurring in a range of igneous and metamorphic rocks ( Fig. 6.12 ) . |
| 10 | All three sites investigated , in the Delaware River catchment , are accessible only by boat with camping occurring in a variety of campsites including camp-grounds , designated primitive sites and undeveloped user-selected sites . |
| 11 | As he gave his evidence for videotape , ‘ genial and twinkly , relaxed in the red eye of the TV camera ’ , as Newsweek described him , reporters noted that in an adjacent courtroom Stevie Wonder was appearing in a case about the authorship of a song , and that across the street another crew was filming an episode of Thirty Something . |
| 12 | A HAPLESS reporter on the Surrey Advertiser made the cardinal mistake of mentioning The Professionals when he went along to interview Martin Shaw who is currently appearing in a play at the Thorndike Theatre , Leatherhead . |
| 13 | The spirit of the deceased , appearing in a variety of different forms . |
| 14 | Miss Kirwan , 20 , has had a remarkably successful career since first appearing in A Handful Of Stars in London at 16 . |
| 15 | She was renowned for her character dancing , appearing in a production of The Sleeping Princess in 1921 as both Aurora and the Lilac Fairy . |
| 16 | • Marlon Brando became a star to underwear manufacturers when he greatly boosted their sales by appearing in a vest in the film ‘ A Streetcar Named Desire ’ . |
| 17 | On a somewhat more profane note , stars Paul Jones and Elaine Delmar will be appearing in a series of open-air concerts dedicated to the work of Cole Porter , with the title Let's Do It . |
| 18 | Johnson referred , characteristically , to ‘ the sort of bounce you would expect from a Scotch egg landing in a bowl of porridge ’ . |
| 19 | We need to assume a finite wire diameter , and we can do that without landing in a sea of further complications . |
| 20 | Excitement flickered inside her like a random spark that found itself landing in a pile of dry autumn leaves as she hardly dared consider the possibilities and what they might mean for her . |
| 21 | Climbing to 200 feet above the sea , he baled out about one mile south of Rabat , landing in a field between Zebbug and Luqa . |
| 22 | He threw a handful of fire at us , but it missed , landing in a sizzle in the branches of a wet tree . |
| 23 | Standing on top of the wooden staircase she hurled herself to the ground , landing in a heap at the bottom . |
| 24 | There 's always the danger of a guest landing in a heap on those boulders . |
| 25 | I caught the leave ship while he , poor man , was still snoring in a room above an estaminet near the station . |
| 26 | You expect me to know all the details of what is happening in a legion of divisions ? ’ |
| 27 | Her mouth goes soft and woolly , expands rapidly to become a cave ; her tongue is a red seal lolling there , a sea anemone blurring in a flower of shadow . |
| 28 | Anneliese grinned , casting a wicked look over her shoulder at where her older brother stood close by , talking and laughing in a group with Salvo and several other relatives . |
| 29 | For those of you who are going to the Sunderland match tommorrow , how about mmeting in a pub before/after the match ? |
| 30 | But I was getting a trifle chilled — just a trifle , you know , and on this beautiful day — ’ he waved a gloved hand at the brilliant sky and the buildings , dazzling in a chiaroscuro of stone and snow , the snow making the grey stone look black , the stone making the snow blindingly pure . |