Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doctor Robert Dexter sat forward quickly , sucking in a deep breath as he regained his senses . |
| 2 | ‘ We have to go , ’ she said , sucking in a deep breath , folding the note again . |
| 3 | Sucking in a lungful of cold air , Piper moved once more down the corridor . |
| 4 | It started as a funnelling current the size of a sea horse , then lengthened , sucking in a core of air . |
| 5 | Sucking in a shaky breath , aware she was taking the greatest gamble of her life , she returned to face him . |
| 6 | Sucking in a deep lungful of smoke , he looked back at the fiercely blazing funeral pyre for the first time . |
| 7 | The hallmark of Wyllie 's All Blacks is the ability to drive the ball forward repeatedly at close quarters , sucking in the defence before opening up and ruthlessly exploit any gaps . |
| 8 | He leaned against the stable , sucking in the cool night air like a man surfacing from a deep river . |
| 9 | But is GCHQ now sucking in the innocent ? |
| 10 | The prime reason for bringing in a new constitution in 1937 was the return to dominance of the republican grouping , the side which had lost the civil war , and which had retained the intention of establishing a republic . |
| 11 | Statistics show that bringing in a new manager tends not to be a pancea . |
| 12 | At first he had liked the thought of bringing in a lot of women to make Gina jealous . |
| 13 | I was bringing in a patron a day . ’ |
| 14 | Harry was scarcely acquainted with his horse and could offer no reassurance ; neither did he think of bringing in a companion horse for the mare . |
| 15 | These ‘ Masters ’ were said to be the hidden wise men who were spread around the world with the aim of bringing in a New World Order . |
| 16 | There was the time , too , when he kept a Wellington side very much under wraps before a Ranfurly Shield challenge against Auckland , and then took the hugh gamble of removing his best five-eighths , Steve Pokere , from fly-half to centre , and bringing in a new youngster — a gamble which failed quite spectacularly . |
| 17 | TITIA Sutherland 's OUT OF THE SHADOWS ( Black Swan £5.99 ) deals tenderly with the relationship of a girl and an ageing woman , as well as bringing in a ghost story and wartime tragedy . |
| 18 | He says he would shuffle the formation , using a more traditional midfield , and bringing in a wide man such as Barnes , Paul Merson or John Salako . |
| 19 | There was also renewed discussion , however , about bringing in a foreign coach , preferably from New Zealand , to work alongside Gradin to prepare the team for matches against Spain in Buenos Aires at the end of September and the Pumas tour to Spain , France and Romania starting mid-October . |
| 20 | It did something about corruption , by bringing in a new civil-service law which makes officials more accountable for their actions while at the same time making them freer of party patronage . |
| 21 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 22 | The popular budget and mid-priced range from EB seems not to be with us any more , alas , but the importers are bringing in a good looking range from Gravity which they hope will take over from where EB left off — prices from about £45 to £55 . |
| 23 | Conventional and gradualist as its recommendations tended to be , the Royal Commission can take credit for laying the foundations of the practice of bringing in a senior officer from another force to investigate complaints against the police . |
| 24 | From a tentative experiment , bringing in a few girl trainees , mostly from charitable institutions , the employment in Edinburgh of women compositors had by Edwardian times become an institution . |
| 25 | Furthermore even in a fused profession , the barristers in chambers in the Inns of Court and elsewhere would undoubtedly enter into partnership as specialist trial advocates and do agency work for other solicitors , whose own staff were unable to act as advocates in every case or where the complexity of the case justified bringing in a specialist advocate . |
| 26 | Mountbatten offered the British government two courses ; either there should be negotiations between Dutch and Indonesians with a view to bringing in a general ceasefire ( plan X ) or else punitive action against ‘ Known or suspected terrorists ’ ( plan Y ) . |
| 27 | Vic Noodle kicked off married life and the new season by pawning his wife 's jewellery and bringing in a clutch of new signings . |
| 28 | One evening I was bringing in a basket of apples from the garden , when a voice behind me said , ‘ Ellen , is that you ? ’ |
| 29 | Yet the Cabinet reshuffle has once again set the boat rocking by bringing in a new Secretary of State for the Environment — the third change in the DoE hot seat in the last 18 months . |
| 30 | Ongoing promotion of Institute membership is bringing in a steady stream of enquiries from potential members . |