Example sentences of "and [v-ing] in [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was rocking him gently as he fed and gazing in abstraction at the far corner of the room . |
| 2 | Miss Honey was leaning far forward over her work-table and gazing in wonder at the child . |
| 3 | It took a crew of sixty a week to set up the stage and seating in front of the ruined tithe barn in the grounds of Sudeley Castle for the four day festival . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The martins were now coming and going in numbers over the water . |
| 6 | Willi staggered round the end of the car park , puffing , red-faced and sweating in spite of the old wind . |
| 7 | If groups of American men want to gather in clearings in the forest , drumming , sharing their pain and getting in touch with the damaged child within , good luck to them . |
| 8 | To question across the boundaries of the myth systems would , of course , involve aggression and getting in touch with the latent anger . |
| 9 | You ought to be reading your bible saying your prayers going to church and getting in touch with the boss . |
| 10 | Mm , mm its one of the great arguments from the old fashioned sort of religion , that you could turn , you could definitely turn to people and say why are you leaning on me so hard , for all this to fought , you ought to be reading your bible , saying your prayers , going to church and getting in touch with the boss why I laughed when they were saying that Terry Waite would need counselling , I bet that Terry Waite was praying his head off and he 'd memorised masses of the bible which he would be reciting to himself probably set himself two o'clock every afternoon , I remember what I can , book of you know I do n't suppose he 'd needed any counselling , he 'd probably do better counselling other people . |
| 11 | According to witnesses , Gyalpo was holding a Tibetan nationalist flag and marching in front of the demonstration as it progressed towards the Jokhang temple in central Lhasa . |
| 12 | other clauses could refer to the manager travelling and staying in accommodation of the same class as the artist . |
| 13 | In view of this , Taylor and colleagues argue that criminology needs to centre on theories of rule-making and breaking in relation to the distribution of power in society . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Montague 's tone is too shallow and lacking in body in the lower register to do justice to this ‘ breeches ’ role , and Ricciarelli , though often touching , has all too many and too conspicuous vocal difficulties above the stave . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is from a fissure in the anthill that the rays of light from the jewels in the Cobras ' heads shine forth , and coming in contact with the rainclouds , which represent the ‘ pure water of wisdom ’ , they form the rainbow . |
| 18 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 19 | They stood on the step and waited for the taxi with black bands on their arms and suitcases in their hands , forlorn passengers from a wrecked ship , clutching a few haphazardly salvaged possessions and staring in dismay at the choppy sea to which they must commit themselves . |
| 20 | From Cork they came , with their cider-fuelled spiky pop instincts and charmingly naive enthusiasm , to fulfil their ‘ fierce dream ’ in rock'n'roll UK — now , here are THE FRANK & WALTERS , family goatherds climbing every mountain in Sound of Musicland and staring in awe at the view with SIMON ‘ Von Trapp ’ WILLIAMS . |
| 21 | Strains of jazz throbbed and boomed overhead , muted by the open air and varying in volume with the capricious comings and going of the breeze from the lake . |
| 22 | All the horses are getting pretty fit , and need schooling and jumping in preparation for the rapidly approaching event season . |
| 23 | Its scientists have snipped through the genes of tomato plants to produce a version that will ripen and develop full flavour without going soft and spoiling in transit between the grower and supermarket shelves . |
| 24 | Then , as if they 'd recovered from the surprise , they began to laugh , snorting and giggling in delight at the water being thrown at them , like two children playing a game . |
| 25 | Abdominal pain was still present in 27% , stool withholding in 45% , constipation with <3 bowel movements per week in 39% , bowel mvoements that clogged the toilet in 45% , laxative use in 33% , and soiling in 48% of the children who did not recover . |
| 26 | The peculiar nature of this journey , that the willed progress is experienced as a divine gift , is a consequence of this theology : In chapter twenty-four Hilton uses the repetitions and cadences of rhetoric to convey this recognition of the activities of a God whose powers are conceived in Trinitarian terms of creating giving and responding in love at the heart of the self : At this point Hilton widens the scope of the metaphor of the journey to Jerusalem — the knowledge of Christ in the soul — by warning that the way from the light of the world to the light of heaven leads through darkness which he describes as " a tymeful space bitwix two daies " ( 24.89v. – 234 ) . |
| 27 | Laming 's defence hinged on his claims that Black was the backer for his plan to undermine racecourse betting and bookmaking in Britain with the stun gun device . |
| 28 | Communist fractions , of course , remained in being but they did not breach the basic principle of British trade unionism that there should be no separate organizations based on ideology or religion and standing in opposition to the TUC . |
| 29 | We 'd spent seven years rehearsing the same plays , playing in the same team , calling the same teachers by their nicknames and falling in love with the same classmates . |
| 30 | At Van Gogh in England , an exhibition at the Barbican Gallery ( until May 4 ) , we see the young art dealer drinking in the culture Pissarro had rejected and falling in love with the black-and-white prints of the Social Realists and with his landlady 's daughter , the stern young Eugenie Loyer . |