Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along a route taking in the castles of Niddry , Cadzow and Craignethan she rallied sympathizers who still regarded her as rightful queen . |
| 2 | They seem a bit lacking in the speed merchant department . |
| 3 | ‘ There 's quite a bit happening in the IT services area here . |
| 4 | ‘ Likely a branch snapping in the wind , sir . ’ |
| 5 | When the corpse floated past , it was as unremarkable as a branch drifting in the water , and once we had passed it , it stayed bobbing in the water as if tied to our stern . |
| 6 | They are identified also with the image of a serpent appearing in the rock art of the area . |
| 7 | John Robinson was telling us all in his 1963 book Honest to God that we should get rid of pictures of God as an old man with a beard living in the sky . |
| 8 | He smiles as he recalls a TD asking in the Dail if nothing was being done ‘ to suppress this Republican paper ’ . |
| 9 | Norman Tebbit had , it was said , returned to a board meeting in the City . |
| 10 | He was just a hat and a cloak levitating in the grey plume of his own breath , but when he called we came . |
| 11 | The most famous was ‘ Old Bec ’ , a mule living in the United States in the 1920s . |
| 12 | And there was a Miss living in the croft beside and she dreamt during the night that er he he was stolen . |
| 13 | More demonstrations and clashes , although less violent , followed on Thursday night , while in Magdeburg , police broke up a silent march of some 500 people through the city following a prayer meeting in the cathedral . |
| 14 | He 'd been brought up on a farm and had a way with horses , and his first job when he left school was working for a brewery breaking in the big black cobs they brought over wild from Ireland and put to use as cart-horses dragging the great heavy drays full of ale . |
| 15 | They always have a stunt co-ordinator and , usually , a stuntman waiting in the wings to do the ‘ pick-up ’ shots later on . |
| 16 | So in the Westinghouse case , one group of witnesses successfully claimed a privilege existing in English law , while another group of witnesses successfully relied upon a privilege existing in the law of the United States , the requesting State . |
| 17 | I was frightened that I was not alone , that there was a presence hiding in the air . |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose some damned fool left a brick lying in the gutter . ’ |
| 19 | Thus making use of eqn ( 10.3b ) we have which , for a wave travelling in the z(3) direction , becomes . |
| 20 | The first term in each equation represents a wave travelling in the positive x direction and the second term a similar wave travelling in the negative x direction . |
| 21 | Overall , equations ( 9.78 ) and ( 9.79 ) allow for a signal being fed in at one end of a transmission line , propagating along it and being partially reflected at the other end to give a wave travelling in the opposite direction . |
| 22 | A BRITISH couple found in a yacht drifting in the Mediterranean are feared to have starved to death . |
| 23 | But as he inspected the size of the Tories ' losses on May 6th even the home secretary , Kenneth Clarke , usually a man to find a silver lining in the blackest cloud , admitted that the government was in ‘ a dreadful hole ’ . |
| 24 | There could be a horse grazing in the field , but not the purple Chagall donkey . |
| 25 | He heard the tell-tale sound of a horse whinnying in the largest barn , and ran to unfasten the door . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's got a horse running in the big race , has n't he ? ’ |
| 27 | On receipt of my cheque , my father got drunk and put the money on a horse running in the Cheltenham Golden Shield called , I do n't know , Handjob or Bumboy or whatever . |
| 28 | These it uses to stun its prey and the discharge is so powerful that it is quite sufficient to knock over a horse standing in the shallows . |
| 29 | There was the sound of a carriage arriving in the street . |
| 30 | His sharp eyes had seen a figure moving in the darkness in front of us , and as the man came closer , I could see that it was indeed Stapleton . |