Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [v-ing] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even on a quiet mid-week summer 's day the beach is fringed with people picnicking or sleeping in their cars , while the lake itself is often used for windsurfing or water-skiing . |
| 2 | erm How does one in any case fine a motorist who is n't standing by his car or sitting in it ? erm I would , if the question is shall we try it , if that is implied , I would say it 's worth trying in a very moderate way , it may require the police and the police representatives so to speak , the wardens if they 're going to be empowered to do this kind of thing , I think it 's going to force them to become very , very diplomatic and civilized in the way they handle it , but we of course too will have to learn to respond in a civilized manner . |
| 3 | AN academic has been banned from sleeping or eating in her office at Stirling University after being told it was so cluttered with papers and food that it constituted a health and fire hazard . |
| 4 | Partner Ferdinand has had his back to the wall in the last few months , a troublesome disc plaguing his attempts to establish himself last spring and resulting in him coming home early from America . |
| 5 | John Yeudall , who 's been involved in the Community for many years as worker , chairman and elected member said " My feelings about it being stripped is how very little building there is for just so much emotion and feeling in it . |
| 6 | The footpath thereto , at first uneventful , soon mounts a small scar and passes alongside a wall bordering a tilted shelf covered by a scattering of boulders , unremarkable at a glance but having in their midst several amazingly perched on slender pedestals of limestone . |
| 7 | These panels are likely to suffer from what has been called ‘ duty ’ listening or viewing in which a person feels he or she ought to , say , watch a television programme because there is a questionnaire for it , even though it is not a programme that person would ordinarily view at all . |
| 8 | Hence the positive value attached to mobility and sharing in their societies . |
| 9 | With no image of hunting and killing in her ‘ mind ’ , with no hunger driving her , she does not express such intentions in her actions and demeanour — and the deer pick it up instinctively at both subtle or vibrational as well as gross physically observable levels . |
| 10 | Aristotle ( 384–322 BC ) had created his philosophy while ambling in his sandals along the olive groves of the Lyceum in Athens and so his philosophy was dubbed ‘ Peripatetic ’ . |
| 11 | I love you I love you — it 's become some trilling song popular for a lurid month and then dismissed to the club circuit where pudgy rockers with grease in their hair and yearning in their voice will use it to unfrock the lolling front-row girls . |
| 12 | Today sees one of the fruits of this co-operation : a National Day of Prayer and Fasting in which Christians will pray that ‘ God 's hand will be on the elections ’ . |
| 13 | In the long run , ‘ LEAs will need to evaluate the success of local management in improving the quality of teaching and learning in their schools , ’ and ‘ the government will wish to evaluate … the success of local management in raising the quality of education in schools ’ says Circular 7/88 ( DES 1988b ) . |
| 14 | AFTER 21 years service has covered his drawing board for the last time to take up the more leisurely pursuits of photography and walking in his retirement . |
| 15 | That day she had wandered off between leaving her mother 's kitchen and arriving in her grandmother 's sitting-room . |
| 16 | Under a slab of rock which lay propped at an angle the earth had been scraped away to make a shallow burrow and lying in it , curled up comfortably on his side like a sleeping dormouse was a boy . |
| 17 | One is referring then to those brokers , dealers and traders who are permitted by LCH to submit contracts for registration and clearing in their own name . |
| 18 | A country 's strategic geographical position might invite super-power attention and meddling in its internal affairs . |
| 19 | ‘ Women in the industry are not dissatisfied with such work ’ asserts Blauner , without giving his evidence for this statement : ‘ Work does not have the central importance and meaning in their lives that it does for men , since their most important roles are those of wives and mothers ’ . |
| 20 | In March 1913 , profiting from Wilson 's 1911 victory , Larking embarked on a fifteen week dispute with the City of Dublin Steamship Packet Company , bringing this to a successful conclusion and becoming in his biographer 's words , " the virtual dictator of the port of Dublin " , and the possessor of a profitable joint agreement with the shipowners arrived at on 26 May which included a no-strike clause . |
| 21 | The thing is , if I 'm going to start my own business one day , I want to get good experience working for the best … so I do n't care whether I 'm answering the phone or working in their library . |
| 22 | He smiled at her , with what seemed warmth and understanding in his eyes . |
| 23 | There was so much force in the kiss that Jenna felt faint , the blood rushing to her head and singing in her ears . |
| 24 | He did look strange , wearing his woolly jacket and swinging in his sling ! |
| 25 | We marched together to and from Aldermaston , we worked together for co-operative socialism , we campaigned together for health , welfare , employment , education and housing in our ‘ inner city ’ constituencies . |
| 26 | I 've spared you the bit about sleeping with a famous broadcaster and writing in her magazine , The Libertine , that he was as ‘ good ’ as he boasted . |
| 27 | Mr Terry Gooderham , aged 39 , an accountant , and his girlfriend Mrs Maxine Arnold , were shot in the back of the head while sitting in their F-registered dark grey Mercedes . |
| 28 | This strange behaviour of peppermints had been observed by my friend while waiting in his car at night . |
| 29 | If he chose to , he could become quite authoritarian in his manner and cutting in his remarks but then , every Adviser needs some weapons in his armoury to survive ! |
| 30 | I think I can interpret Ken 's request for it to be done by the end of the week as meaning in his hands on Monday morning . |