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Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] in [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1	Through keeping in touch with the birth family the child is also able to ask questions and seek information about his adoption and genealogy .
2	Some capital may be obtained through direct transference , as when an acquired skill for keeping in touch with the latest developments and information in a given academic field is then applied to the world of fashion .
3	In a television interview given after appearing in Adelaide at the annual meeting of his parent company , News Corporation , he confessed to having ‘ considerable sympathy ’ for the way Bob was handling the economy .
4	But after sensing that the confidence was ebbing away from his opponent after reeling in Wilkinson in the second set , Witt 's delivery became more consistent and appropriately he clinched a place in the quarter-finals with his 11th ace .
5	I discovered the dark secret of DeKalb in Illinois after arriving in search of the childhood influences that shaped the life of the world 's top cover girl .
6	Although the depositions must be somewhat suspect , it is likely that the countess did feel herself under pressure to agree , and it may be significant that her feoffees , after agreeing in principle to the transfer , then dragged their feet over finalizing it and had to be sued in chancery by Gloucester and , nominally , the countess .
7	Although the depositions must be somewhat suspect , it is likely that the countess did feel herself under pressure to agree , and it may be significant that her feoffees , after agreeing in principle to the transfer , then dragged their feet over finalizing it and had to be sued in chancery by Gloucester and , nominally , the countess .
8	I returned to the UK before was born after working in Spain for the previous five years .
9	Dove , the early American Modernist , met everyone worth meeting in Paris at the beginning of the century through the ministrations of his good friend Alfred Maurer and then returned to New York where , during the 1920s , he lived on a houseboat moored on the Harlem River .
10	For most of the first session the pupils watched a video about living in Britain during the war and looked through printed resources .
11	This project thus aims to fill an important gap by providing the first comprehensive study of policing in Ireland from the 1830s to the 1920s .
12	A common agreement between two or more persons having for its object the death of all of them , whether or not each is to take his own life , but nothing shall be treated as done by him in pursuance of the pact unless it is done while he has the settled intention of dying in pursuance of the pact .
13	A contract remaining open ( ie , not settled ) after the cessation of trading in respect of the delivery month or prompt date , falls to be performed by the clearing member and LCH according to its terms .
14	Case recording is one method of keeping in touch with the interview room , but case records are factual reports of problems and action taken , and can not and should not serve to describe attitudes and the atmosphere in the interview room .
15	Once the school-leaver was placed , the after-care supervision was entirely in the hands of the SCCs , and other associated bodies , who made periodic reports to the local JAC , and as with the earlier form of care committee , a ‘ visitor ’ was named who had the duty of keeping in touch with the young workers until they were 17 or 18 .
16	‘ What is the point of keeping in touch with the contemporary scene ? ’
17	Then there is the problem of keeping in touch with the sample .
18	Once again we have this problem of keeping in touch with the wing wards , Astley and er East it 's not all that easy to do but er there are people there who are showing an interest and I hope that we can .
19	He passed on the thanks , and the remarks about the possibility of keeping in touch in the event of war .
20	And in saying this sort of thing to its own members , the church also invites the rest of the community to find for itself , people within the community to find for themselves , the positive benefits of living in obedience to the word of God .
21	‘ The strain of living in Matlock during the week and returning home to Darlington at weekends was , in retrospect , building up almost imperceptibly , ’ he wrote .
22	He claims that he had no intention of acting in defiance of the court order .
23	They had ‘ disavowed any intention , for the present , of acting in opposition to the Labour movement in the country , and certainly their action in many constituencies during the last election gives earnest of their disavowal . ’
24	To this hidden land come Leo Vincey and Holly after twenty years of wandering in search of the goddess woman and here the pair of them are involved with the rebellion of Atene and her husband against the secret ruler Ayesha , now called He s ( or Isis ) .
25	Yet the people in those countries show little sign of believing in Marxism in the way that some Western intellectuals do .
26	A real desire to participate in some form of practical training was expressed by most of the people spoken to but the problems of fitting in courses with the off-farm employment were considerable .
27	The washers must be correctly aligned , filled with fluid and be otherwise correctly maintained , so as to be capable of cleaning in conjunction with the wipers .
28	Last week Sugar sent a letter to every member of Tottenham 's staff confirming his intention of remaining in control of the club .
29	Taken in by the image of yourself they present you with , wrote Harsnet , instead of waiting in patience for the beginning , instead of waiting and then beginning , though beginning , having begun , he wrote , is not everything , is far from everything .
30	Cabs were hard to come by , and after ten minutes of waiting in line beneath the hotel canopy he decided to walk uptown a few blocks and catch a passing cab if he got lucky .