Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he made his way up , feeling like a schoolboy with skimped prep , his eye caught , with a start of surprise , the rotund shape of Mr Kronweiser , eyes darting suspiciously in all directions , working at a desk . |
| 2 | He thought people still enjoyed the simple retelling of the key mysteries of the faith , stories they knew and loved , and seeing a hundred or so Christians joining together in such a project could only commend the Church . |
| 3 | Those universities featuring highest in this list can be said to concentrate on local research . |
| 4 | Though literary festivals could be immensely enjoyable , especially if they took you to some pleasant distant city , like Toronto or Adelaide , there was something absurd about writers gathering together in this way . |
| 5 | Gouache techniques produce very satisfying results , with the less liquid acrylics scoring better in this department . |
| 6 | They go beyond this by demonstrating that the ‘ objects ’ concerned are figures derived by segregation processes operating normally in both visual fields . |
| 7 | Beyond that I suspect that 1,000dpi will become the breakpoint at which imagesetting based on optical methods takes over with the prices reducing significantly in that market as volumes increase . |
| 8 | The small mammals living today in many different habitats and climatic zones have been described , so that the associations between faunal types and ecology are well documented ( Southern , 1954 ; Walker , 1964 ; Glue , 1967 ; Hanney , 1975 ; Andrews , Groves & Horne , 1975 ; Corbet & Southern , 1977 ; Brain , 1981 ; Yalden , 1985 ; Avery , 1986 ) . |
| 9 | We attempt to treat the wives and ex-wives of service men living illegally in some of our properties as sympathetically as we can and that is why the 1,600 to whom the hon. Gentleman referred live in service accommodation . |
| 10 | The bravery of men swimming ashore in these pioneer beach reconnaissances is beyond question , and knowing Norman Teacher as a friend , as well as being his CO , the Commander feels there is a strong probability that the young Lieutenant made the supreme sacrifice in swimming to his death rather than risking his capture , as others , too , may have done . |
| 11 | I can not imagine what sort of place this gentleman imagined he was coming to in bringing the latter , but I must say it struck something of an odd note to see in Darlington Hall these two large silent men staring suspiciously in all directions a few yards from wherever the Italian gentleman happened to be . |
| 12 | I can well understand that the political and governing classes are unhappy to see citizens associating freely in each other 's homes , in pubs and private clubs . |