Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she 's not having a drink or tucking into a bag of crisps , the five month old badger cub can usually be found on the snooker table . |
| 2 | ‘ New ideas are being stifled by bureaucracy ’ , is the standard grouse over a beer or gazing into a test tube , along with more detailed criticisms of why the system does n't work . |
| 3 | This complex behaviour requires mechanisms to register the presence of prey or danger and to decide on and make the appropriate response , attacking or contracting into a blob — sensory cells , secretory cells , muscle cells and above all a network of electrically connected cells running right across its surface which can coordinate the hydra 's responses . |
| 4 | The most heroic plays were made as we leapt to stop the ball hitting the wooden door to the hall or banging into the metal shutters over the window , which would have brought the guards running in . |
| 5 | At the end of the decade it seems we 're either yearning for an American Fifties image or sinking into a nihilism of all-black clothes . |
| 6 | However old or ill one might be , there is something healing and comforting about stroking the soft fur of a purring cat or looking into the trusting eyes of a faithful dog . |
| 7 | There was one positive side for deaf people arising from the War : with so many men volunteering or going into the Armed Services , there was a desperate shortage of labour in the workplace , especially in munitions factories . |
| 8 | One man 's protest about , about industrial effluent pouring into a river or pouring into the air above a beautiful city is another man 's profit . |
| 9 | He went to the window , made sure her car was n't coming , or turning into the communal garage . |
| 10 | And we ourselves became different people from those we had been a minute ago , when we were teasing Filimon the goat or getting into a fight with Pechonkin 's street gang . |
| 11 | There 's no maintenance , no rates , no insurances , they 're in , they 're in a sort of bad s or getting into a bad state , so I do feel that we should try and put some priorities behind this erm , particular business link in Craven Arms . |
| 12 | The show is great , but after a three-hour musical high , it is back down to sandwiches on the bus , trying to find somewhere to eat after 2 a.m. , or getting into the hotel when the night porter has locked up . |
| 13 | To carry out nursing procedures designed to enhance physical and psychological comfort , e.g. lifting or moving into a comfortable positions orientating the patient or answering questions . |
| 14 | Opting out into private education , or moving into the catchment area with the best state schools , would become a less important past-time . |
| 15 | The times had simply passed when one could conquer France , conquer Belgium , conquer Holland , even conquer Eastern Europe , and say , ‘ This is the same as moving into Africa or moving into the Far East ’ . |
| 16 | But there is also , I think , a more positive acceptance of the idea of an increasing rational control over the conditions of social life , which brings with it a recognition of the possibilities which now exist for effecting political changes by rational persuasion and legislation , but without ignoring the fact of substantial political conflict or lapsing into a utopian conception of social harmony . |
| 17 | Other than luck — winning the football pools or coming into a legacy — there are three main possibilities for providing you with extra money : your home , work and investment skill . |
| 18 | In London , the community , Bob Colenutt suggests , was never even considered , yet even when , as in the case of Pittsburgh , community involvement is statutory , the outcomes may be only to amplify those within the community ( or coming into the community ) with the greatest resources and power to exploit the local political system . |
| 19 | Nor will you have to be running marathons or plunging into the swimming pool every day in order to maintain a reasonable level of exercise to speed weight loss and keep metabolic rate high . |
| 20 | It felt rather like passing through a magic door in a James Bond movie or slipping into a speak-easy because the Cross Keys was a gringo hang-out par excellence , complete with long , oak-look bar and well-used dartboard . |
| 21 | Davis , a fastidious master , brought out all its natural sweetness without ever suggesting the saccharine or slipping into the over-sentimental . |
| 22 | People take it easy here , lying under beach umbrellas , stretching out in the sun or slipping into the sea for a swim . |
| 23 | Some were part of my social life as well , even if this was simply lunching together in the staff canteen or dropping into the pub for a drink on the way home . |
| 24 | She was always clutching a fistful of sweets or biting into a between-meals snack of bread and condensed milk or scraping out bowls in which Aunt Margaret had mixed cake . |
| 25 | If flexibility is insufficient and the golfer tries to reach the parallel position with the club at the top of the backswing , the body will compensate either by folding the right foot onto its side , which can lead to the collapse of the same knee , or falling into a reverse pivot . |
| 26 | So millions of lives are launched in a multitude of different ways hopping from a pouch , tumbling from a womb , clambering out of a capsule , hammering open an eggshell or falling into the sea , scattered wholesale like seeds . |
| 27 | Missing a shot or falling into the net will result in a laugh from your opponent as he puts his hand on his stomach and leans forward . |
| 28 | Rowed by a team of friends she was soon alongside , aboard and tucking into a substantial breakfast . |
| 29 | She could n't risk slipping on the wet surface of the stones and pitching into the river . |
| 30 | When chipping and pitching into the wind , the ball will settle down more quickly and the stroke must be quite positive , with a quite noticeable acceleration through impact . |