Example sentences of "[v-ing] in a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this is the case we may be standing , sitting or walking in a way that is putting enormous stresses on our structure without us even being aware of it at all . |
| 2 | We hazard a guess that they 're lurking in a shoebox or , worse still , the ubiquitous carrier bag ! |
| 3 | We hazard a guess that they 're lurking in a shoebox or , worse still , the ubiquitous carrier bag ! |
| 4 | but soon it will be appearing in a dictionary as , A bit over-formal , a bit archaic , use it if you like in a business letter but most people would prefer |
| 5 | And do n't suggest I try reversing all the way , since I have no intention of landing in a ditch and immobilising both vehicles . ’ |
| 6 | They seemed to have darkened , smouldering in a way that sent hot and cold chills chasing each other through her body . |
| 7 | Experience is necessarily an act of relating in a relationship that can never be free of paradox . |
| 8 | ( 5 ) The first two strophes have three rhymes ending in a plosive and nine occurrences in stressed position of the diphthong /ay/ , whereas both of these elements are absent from the second two strophes ; strophes I and II have , respectively , one definite followed by one inde finite article , and one inde finite followed by one de finite article , in contrast to the three indefinite articles in strophe ( II and the two definite articles in strophe IV . |
| 9 | Do n't push your luck , ’ she said , her words ending in a wail as he picked her up and dumped her in the car like an unwieldy parcel . |
| 10 | Feet , each a thin tube ending in a sucker and kept firm by the pressure of water within , wave and curl in rows along the arms . |
| 11 | An individual with a Quetelet 's Index of 40 has three times the risk of dying in a year than someone whose weight is deal . |
| 12 | ( In comparison , the risk of a person dying in a traffic accident is 1 in 10,000 , and the risk of dying in a fire or a gas explosion at home is 1 in 1,000,000 . ) |
| 13 | The development of the exchange , from a meeting place for buyers and sellers , to futures trading in a pit or ring leads logically to the assumption that every member of the floor should be aware of the prevailing price of business being done and have an equal opportunity to participate in it . |
| 14 | And a more realistic price was revealed by the short-lived ‘ grey ’ market ( the popular term for trading in a security before it is issued ) in Zeneca that was begun by Salomon Brothers in mid-April . |
| 15 | He was lurkin' in a doorway while Ah was grabbin' the driver . ’ |
| 16 | By the end of the century , the Chinese government hopes that every peasant family will be living in a brick and tile house with its own toilet and water supply : a dream that at the moment looks impossible . |
| 17 | Think of living in a yacht as living in a caravan , eating out in the evenings . |
| 18 | Crazy is living in a fog and pissing your pants . |
| 19 | An upholstered armchair , a cream cake , a flat desk-top , are all objects of luxury to those who finally return to ‘ stumble around their own culture with the clumsiness of returned astronauts , to be simply uncritically grateful to be a Westerner , living in a culture that seems suddenly very precious and vulnerable ’ . |
| 20 | She was living in a bed and breakfast place for thirty-five pounds a night , and paying each day — it was n't the kind of hotel where you settled the bill as you left . |
| 21 | ‘ I have been living in a bed and breakfast for the past 15 months with my kids and me in the one room . |
| 22 | It is important for the elderly to have heating in their bedroom because of the risk of hypothermia , and it is also essential to make sure that they are living in a home that is well ventilated as well as warm . |
| 23 | ‘ Being a ship 's doctor is pretty much like living in a village or any small community . |
| 24 | I would suggest a counter-proposition : that we are living in a society that is sick and tired of information . |
| 25 | The prime minister dares — dares — to talk about unorthodox styles of living in a society that actually penalises motherhood , so much so that virtually the only women who 'll take it up are those capable of nothing else ! |
| 26 | It does not follow that they understand in any sense that the bottom bricks of a tower support the top ones — although this is something which a leaping animal living in a jungle or an untidy house may have to learn . |
| 27 | Similarly , in the case of the universe , could it be that we are living in a region that just happens by chance to be smooth and uniform ? |
| 28 | We thank you , Lord , that you are in control of our households ; that Jesus knew the joys and sadnesses of living in a family and in a community of people and families in the same street and town . |
| 29 | ‘ Are they milk cattle living in a house as I have heard ? ’ |
| 30 | Living in modernity does not mean living in an age that is intrinsically evil because it is modern , but it does mean that we have to understand that we are living in a fallen culture : a culture whose people and institutions and social habits need to be redeemed . |