Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [noun] [conj] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This first landing was more of a reconnaissance or in modem terms a commando raid in strength , this lasting for about twenty three days , landing in August and leaving mid September . |
| 2 | Freed , furthermore , after 1870 from the embarrassment of the papal states and continually reinforced by its growing missionary societies , the Church was manifestly expanding in number and influence all through the first half of the twentieth century , when other large Churches were only too clearly declining rather than advancing . |
| 3 | Teenage girls returned from that camp with stories of speaking in tongues and exorcising evil spirits . |
| 4 | Now 31 , McMaster was a prolific points gatherer in his heyday , running in tries or kicking prodigious penalties . |
| 5 | We are an organisation specialising in Stearmans and have wide experience of restoring and operating them at our Norfolk base . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , master was reading in bed and fell asleep , so he must have knocked the candle over . |
| 7 | Breeding was confirmed ten years later in the Kent marshes , and it has been increasing in numbers and colonising more reed beds in the years since . |
| 8 | It is constantly increasing in numbers and finding new ways to live off all kinds of foodstuffs in all kinds of environments . |
| 9 | Luckily she had walked , or tottered , in the right direction , and after days which she could no longer recall , sleeping in barns and eating raw eggs when she could find them , she woke up in a Red Cross Hospital . |
| 10 | In the Carboniferous swamps large trees with leaves , of the genus Cordaites grew to 30 or more metres in height , with long slim trunks terminating in branches that bore strap-shaped leaves up to a metre in length . |