Example sentences of "and [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was scarcely called upon to say a word as she talked , pale smoke drifting from her mouth and her nose and hanging in the light . |
| 2 | Bought at the Ephemera stall for framing , and hanging in the ‘ 121 ’ office of the Principal Clerk – were the Order of Proceedings in the Hall of Assembly on the occasion of the first Assembly after the Union of the Churches in 1929 ; and also the Order of Service for Queen Victoria 's Jubilee Thanksgiving , held in the Assembly Hall in May 1897 . |
| 3 | Suffocating and smothering in the gelatinous mucous … |
| 4 | Bradley finds it hard to imagine ‘ a stockbroker and a labourer screaming and bellowing in the wilds of Dorset ’ , but at the same time , he suspects that perhaps British men might get some benefit out of it . |
| 5 | ‘ I think it 's time we stopped poisoning half the land and concreting in the rest . ’ |
| 6 | I once saw a cartoon which pictured hundreds of lemmings throwing themselves off a cliff and drowning in the water below . |
| 7 | We all had a whale of a time , drifting on the surface and drowning in the depths with the four fishermen . |
| 8 | She could be heard hawking and coughing in the upstairs bedroom . |
| 9 | All the children who were living far away , they brought a sandwich and a flask with them and eating in the desk in the classroom . |
| 10 | It has the effect of increasing the surface area of a solution , thus increasing its speed of activity , and assisting in the total capability of a solution to suspend dirt much of it ending up trapped in the foam . |
| 11 | In September 1953 Curran became the BBC 's first internally selected administrative trainee , visiting or working for a time in different departments of the BBC in and out of London and assisting in the preparation of the BBC 's first personnel manual . |
| 12 | The trial ended in November 1990 in Siegen ( Germany ) of a former SS officer Ernst August König , 71 , who was accused of killing eight gypsies and assisting in the murder of 1,067 others at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp . |
| 13 | A 21-year-old woman is charged with benefiting from the proceeds of drugs and assisting in the laundering of £10,000 . |
| 14 | Before long they lost the course of the brook , slipping across the moonlit patches as fugitives and halting in the bushes with raised ears and staring eyes . |
| 15 | It would involve crawling out of a window while nobody was looking and trusting in the spirit of Christmas goodwill should we be discovered . |
| 16 | I had expected it to be best for trenching and shaping in the vertical position , but on all but the softest of timbers it failed to supply a substantial cut . |
| 17 | An ex-Portsmouth Polytechnic student who was told by her economics tutor that ‘ all girls who get through are going on to do shorthand and typing in the evening ’ . |
| 18 | You can alter the numbers by : - 1 ) Highlighting the part you want to change with the mouse and typing in the new value ( the old value is automatically deleted ) . |
| 19 | Stephenson roared and howled with laughter , slapping his thigh and stamping in the mud . |
| 20 | But all the stamping and cheering in the Empress ballroom might almost have been a vain attempt to muffle the sound of hats flopping intermittently into the leadership ring . |
| 21 | For this one day a year , the usually gridlocked streets of New York were closed to traffic and lined with nearly three million people who proved that when the craziness and complexity is forgotten for 24 hours , they can be among the most decent and welcoming supporters of the human spirit they were witnessing and cheering in the runners thronging their streets . |
| 22 | Expert clauses often provide that the decision is to be final and binding in the absence of manifest error . |
| 23 | She attends Ropley School and enjoys dancing , horse riding and drama , as well as bell-ringing and singing in the Ropley Church choir . |
| 24 | Bands appear in the streets , and folklore groups are dancing and singing in the central reservations and gardens of Funchal . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll be up and singing in the morning , ’ he announced cheerily . |
| 26 | One day everyone was laughing and singing in the Delhi gardens , covering each other with pink powder and coloured Holi-water ; the next they had imprisoned themselves in the silent air-conditioned purdah of their bedrooms and offices , waiting patiently for the reprieve of evening . |
| 27 | Praising Durkheim , Eliot had written about and summarized Max Müller 's attitude ( largely based on Sanskrit philology ) , which looked at primitive religion chiefly through its myths , finding in primitive deities personifications of larger forces of nature and seeing in the primitive mind a sentiment of wonder at such forces , a basic intuition of the ‘ infinite ’ . |
| 28 | The people are sick and tired of seeing on the television , hearing on the radio and seeing in the press the fairy stories that the Secretary of State keeps preaching from the Dispatch Box . |
| 29 | I felt like shit and I was trying so hard not to think of Lewis and Verity that I could n't think about anything else , but the day was fabulous ; clear and cold , the sky crystal blue and reflecting in the waters of hill-cupped lochans and the glinting length of Loch Add . |
| 30 | Then they heard a terrible whistling and crackling in the forest : Baba Yaga was returning . |