Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [noun] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having spent the last decade appearing in television mini-series and narrating Thomas the Tank Engine , Starr has rediscovered his musical roots . |
| 2 | Children play mournfully in heap of setter shit above which washing-line used to hang ( until sodden towel bust it at three a.m. , landing in setter ordure as mentioned ) . |
| 3 | If painting in powder colour and using a large sized brush you will want a reasonable size of paper . |
| 4 | Bring to the boil sprinkling in gravy granules and stir until dissolved and the sauce has thickened . |
| 5 | Analyses of voting patterns revealed that it was primarily the racist demagoguery against foreign nationals living in West Germany that accounted for the party 's victories . |
| 6 | Senior council officials in Birmingham , some earning up to £65,000 a year — that is more than we poor Members of Parliament get — are living in council properties and paying rents as low as one fifth of market levels . |
| 7 | If it had to finance that by raising its own taxes , Scotland might become a socialist state along Albanian lines with high taxes , centralised planning and everyone living in council houses and enjoying the beauties of the socialist system in its most untrammelled form . |
| 8 | When he was out of danger and questioned about relatives , he told them , somewhat reluctantly , that he had a sister living in South Africa and gave them Pat 's married name and address . |
| 9 | Other titles , such as Living in New York and Living in Washington equally emphasise the cultural background they present . |
| 10 | Traditionally in summer they were based ashore , living in skin tents and sod huts , hunting and fishing from skin canoes ( kayaks and family-sized umiaks ) among the ice floes , trapping fish at weirs and stone barriers in the rivers , and searching the tundra for caribou , musk oxen , smaller game , birds , eggs and berries . |
| 11 | OLIVER rolled his eyes back , lit a cigarette and said that the very phrase common sense was a contradiction in terms , and if Man — at which point he pretended to be extremely embarrassed and correct himself to Man-or-Woman — if Man-or-Woman had relied upon common sense over the previous millennia we 'd all still be living in mud huts and eating frightful food and listening to Del Shannon records . |
| 12 | In winter some continued ashore , reinforcing their tents and huts for extra warmth , while others moved out on to the inshore sea ice , living in snow houses and feeding mostly on fish and seals . |
| 13 | Some aposematic prey that are conspicuous when seen at close quarters appear cryptic when living in family groups and viewed from a distance . |
| 14 | It is only relatively recently that the imbalance has been corrected and this has been mainly due to oil from the North Sea , resulting in import savings and export earning . |
| 15 | Conrad and Rush ( 1965 ) showed that deaf children do not exhibit the same type of coding in memory tasks as do hearing children . |
| 16 | For weeks , staying in youth hostels and living off substantial farmhouse teas , I wandered the Dales in all weathers , often struggling in the fine morning drizzle along high paths that led only into the clouds , then turning , rewarded , to watch the sunlight dipping through the hills and valleys as the rain stopped , glistening on the crags and throwing giant shadows on the slopes . |
| 17 | Like Jackson , he enjoyed a comfortable life style , staying in quality hotels and dressing rather ostentatiously . |
| 18 | Provides the information you will need for flying in IFR conditions and suggests aids to mental calculations . |
| 19 | Although the mouse homolog T160 is tightly linked to the recombination activator genes RAG-1 and RAG-2 , and expressed fusion proteins show specificity for binding in DNA sequences that act as recombination signals for V-(D)-J joining , recombinase activity has not been demonstrated ( 22 ) . |
| 20 | Some readers will feel frustrated by the lack of detailed discussion of current issues such as the implications of care management for community teams for people with learning difficulties or the practicalities of disinvesting in day services and investing in supported employment . |
| 21 | So it is not surprising that his interest developed from driving them very fast and very skilfully to the point where he now heads a business specialising in accident repairs and coachbuilding with a turnover in the region of £7.5 million . |
| 22 | A man was seen loitering in Clotherholme Road but had disappeared by the time officers arrived . |
| 23 | Macgregor 's unit returned to mapping in northeast Scotland and continued to work in the Central Coalfield . |
| 24 | Many , for example the auks and petrels , feed at sea all the year round , often at great distances from land ; these are the most numerous , breeding in cliff colonies that include thousands of nesting pairs . |
| 25 | In the United States state judges ( that is judges sitting in state courts and administering , in the main , state laws ) may be recruited via election or appointment by the Governor . |
| 26 | In 1285 in Norfolk they offended the church not only by sitting in church courts and gathering evidence there for indictments of the clergy but also by hearing cases of violence and defamation against the clergy and matrimonial and testamentary suits , all of which were traditionally matters for church courts . |
| 27 | Morning chats crew you up for righting drill , tailchasing in Lasers , bombing in Dart catamarans or practising with trapezes , while novices practice on Toppers in the local area . |
| 28 | Originally from California , Toni has been striving to achieve musical recognition for the past ten years , playing in LA bands and doing backing vocals for Berlin . |
| 29 | A GROWING demand for slate roofs has breathed new life into traditional slate quarrying in north Wales and given a fillip to villages that for centuries have relied on the industry for jobs . |
| 30 | The economic programme presented in February , which relaxed the monetarist controls implemented over the previous two years and sought to lift the economy out of recession by investing in state enterprises and boosting imports [ see pp. 38774-75 ] , was rejected by the Sejm ( lower house of parliament ) on March 5 by 171 votes to 138 with 38 abstentions . |