Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] in [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On their way to the Lion d'Or , where they were to meet Jack , Iris and Melissa passed old women knitting and gossiping in doorways or leaning out of windows , young women sauntering along with babies in perambulators , and leather-clad youths astride shiny motorbikes parked at the kerbside while they chatted up their mini-skirted girls . |
| 2 | Naturally , apart from the accusation of hypocrisy and of letting Britain solve its marriage problems , the government ends up being accused of allowing divorce for the wealthy and none for the poor , as the cost of going to and staying in Britain and paying for the legal procedures is beyond the pockets of the majority . |
| 3 | While serving as agent in Canton for merchants in India and Singapore , and dealing in export and import commerce , he speculated in the opium trade which , although illegal , offered the greatest profits . |
| 4 | But staying in control and knowing when to stop is the key . |
| 5 | ROMANTIC soldier Paul Barlow married the teenage pen-pal he fell in love with while serving in Bosnia and said : ‘ I 'm the happiest man in the world . ’ |
| 6 | Whilst agreeing in part but disagreeing substantially with the assumptions of Ludmer , I felt — and still feel — that the attraction of sport for black kids is a little more complex and that any full understanding can not assume that sport constitutes an area freed of racialism , or that black youths are attracted to it simply because they see it as such . |