Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [pron] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It is not just a great city ; it is , or rather was , a great port and shipbuilding city , and that matters in understanding it and the places which are like it .
2 in effect what you 're doing is helping us out with the cost that we incurred in getting it and the help that we 've done you .
3 The people who moved the instruments each day to the studio had a vested interest in persuading us that the Philharmonie was no good ; people even said privately that the change must be resisted at all costs because the coffee was so much better at the church !
4 What do we have in mind in taking it that a causal circumstance makes an effect happen ?
5 When she was allowed out of bed the nurses ( who presumably had not received the instruction ) no longer assisted in washing her and the patient said that she would be glad to get home so that her legs and feet could be washed .
6 The most difficult part of the exercise for fixed-wing flyers lies in convincing yourself that the controls really do work normally .
7 When his friends the Barberini were obliged for political reasons to leave Rome in 1644 and settled in Paris he lost little time in entertaining them and the French Court with Italian operas .
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