Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] in [noun] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did n't stick their cards through your letter box or advertise in the Yellow Pages , And very often they were unreliable people , demanding payment in advance or trying to blackmail you . |
| 2 | The Bosnian war might undermine the UN peacekeeping operation in Croatia and rekindle the flames there . |
| 3 | PLAYER : ( Lost ) There we were — demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore , speaking as no man ever spoke , swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets , killing each other with wooden swords , hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance — and every gesture , every pose , vanishing into the thin unpopulated air . |
| 4 | The more stubbornly East Germany 's old men resist change , the greater becomes the danger that the whole edifice they have constructed will collapse around them , threatening stability in Europe and raising the question of reunification for which no one is prepared . |
| 5 | The emphasis in much of that session from coach Douglas Morgan was on retaining depth in alignment and getting the ball through the hands at pace . |
| 6 | If you have been thinking this way , practise having height in hand and using the airbrakes on the base leg . |
| 7 | His work as a paid negotiator caused him to travel through most of New South Wales arbitrating in disputes , taking part in conciliations and talking , talking , talking as industries grew up in the prospering state and workers flooded in from Britain , mostly from Ireland , to claim their share of what were meagre wages . |
| 8 | Miller provided a wealth of elegant ornamental plants in the Figures for those appreciating beauty in botany and included many others on account of their usefulness or rarity . |
| 9 | Mr Wormwood did n't want to be scalped so he had to keep the hat on his head the whole day long , even when putting sawdust in gear-boxes and fiddling the mileages of cars with his electric drill . |
| 10 | Brandt was determined to develop co-operation with eastern Europe in the hope of reducing tension in Europe and building up the independence of eastern states , and he believed that East Germany 's existence must be treated as a reality . |
| 11 | Unless a deal is done which reduces subsidies and makes agricultural trade subject to normal GATT rules , they say they will block progress on freeing trade in services and rewriting international rules governing intellectual property . |