Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] in [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got fed up when there was one and only a party that has been out of power and living in blinkers for the past 12 years could possibly propose returning to a naked property tax . |
| 2 | The martins were now coming and going in numbers over the water . |
| 3 | The works on show are as relaxed as the setting — they speak quietly — no drama , no rhetoric — and their message is clear that The Prince of Wales , like every serious artist , paints not just what he sees but what he is … a man obviously happiest in the open air , preoccupied ( like all Englishmen ) with our landscape and our weather ( itself as misty , mid-toned and lacking in extremes as the English themselves ) . |
| 4 | Many of his radical moves , breaking the BBC down into business units instructed to make money or be closed and buying in services from the private sector if it is cheaper , are either in force or due to be so by the beginning of next month — so if he went they would continue anyway . |
| 5 | Each has their own schizoid features , Presley gorging on chocs and biscuits , Haley preferring to lapse into drugged sleep and oblivion , but both paralysed with terror of the world outside and indulging in dreams of the golden days when mummy and daddy were alive and all was right with the world . |
| 6 | Doctors had been deeply worried about the 4,000 refugees from Prague , who had been camping in the embassy grounds in squalid conditions , surrounded by ankle-deep mud and sleeping in shifts on the available beds . |
| 7 | Typing in letters gives capitals ; but typing in numbers from the number row still gives figures , not symbols . |