Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [conj] [verb] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This entailed either groping her or standing in front of her and dropping his trousers . |
| 2 | ‘ He ca n't have been much fun to live with ; his wife would n't necessarily have been heartbroken , ’ Guy commented drily , finally releasing her and going in search of a large box of tissues . |
| 3 | With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one . |
| 4 | It enables them to avoid committing themselves and to retreat in front of danger ; and this is one of the major reasons why people speak indirectly . |
| 5 | Blackbirds and thrushes will make a meal of ripening strawberries , pears etc , and even blue-tits can damage ripening apples and pears by pecking them and letting in fungi and bacteria that may cause the fruit to rot . |
| 6 | She might well say that she would have a different sense of herself as well had she grown up counting herself as made in God 's image . |
| 7 | To address the possibility that recombinant baculoviruses containing duplicated promoters might be unstable , we avoided the juxtaposition of identical promoters by arranging and segregating them as illustrated in Figure 1 . |