Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I was the only one mad enough to go walking in this weather . ’ |
| 2 | Section two describes the two factors which will need pronouncing in this period to achieve this objective , these are the usual annual commitments and the need under the present rules laid down by Policy Committee to commence from the highways project , the loan charges on the capital expenditure over and above the figure included in the transport supplementary grant settlement , that is the two point seven million pound figure in paragraph two one B. |
| 3 | MESSAGE BEGINS STOP EGG NOW LAID AND INCUBATING NICELY STOP EXPECT HATCHING IN FEW WEEKS STOP SUGGEST YOU CONTACT AVIARY AND BEGIN SELECTING SPECIMEN STOP TUES 1100 EST STOP MANVILLE APD/ 3700925/WP MESSAGE ENDS |
| 4 | I thought people stopped believing in that years ago . ’ |
| 5 | Except that it if it involved waiting in this corridor for much longer , one of the security cameras might start to register her despite all diversionary moves , and she should therefore now take a break of at least six hours before coming back here . |
| 6 | It is interesting to try reading in this position oneself for a minimum of ten minutes in order to appreciate its inefficiency , and to experience the uncomfortable and tiring effects of doing so . |
| 7 | Thus , as Austerberry and Watson point out , government 's efforts to increase the proportion of owner occupied housing in this country has the unintended consequence of profoundly affecting the property rights of women , particularly when marriage ends . |
| 8 | The troops of both sides stopped fighting in many places . |
| 9 | This was so successful that the army stopped cycling in some districts . |
| 10 | If children approached schooling in this manner schools would have no wish to ‘ lose ’ their pupils , the throughflow of children with genuine adjustment problems in units would be assured and the ‘ moral order ’ re-established . |
| 11 | ‘ You must enjoy working in such opulence . ’ |
| 12 | But it is impossible to continue writing in that vein without a feeling of disgust . |
| 13 | Surely we 're not going to sit cowering in this place because we 're frightened to go and see him . |
| 14 | It 's become a truism that we despise ageing in this culture , and I see few signs of that abating . |
| 15 | In 1979 , the Home Office persuaded the radio conference to allow it to continue operating in these frequencies until the end of 1989 . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's no call to go looking in that direction , ’ Vernon said . |
| 17 | She recalled singing in both operas at Boosback as a 16-year-old and says she was amazed to be given the female lead in The Beggars ' and only three weeks in which to learn the words and music ! |
| 18 | Eisenhower , himself , a former military leader , was pointing to a phenomena which troubled him , and one which others have seen developing in many countries . |
| 19 | In Sri Lanka , however , it is seen growing in several rivers and spring pools with a water temperature of 62°–68°F , showing yet again that most tropical aquatic plants are capable of withstanding wide ranges of temperature conditions . |
| 20 | Furthermore , it provides the beginnings of a theory which discriminates between responses which offer short-term emotional comfort for people and changes in technology and economy which produce real gains in human happiness and lessen suffering in this life . |
| 21 | In the UK , for example , there is evidence that the local authority council house system has reduced mobility over long distances for those who seek housing in this sector ( Hughes and McCormick 1981 ) . |
| 22 | In England , James Robertson ( 1953 , 1958 ) , a colleague of Bowlby 's at the Tavistock Clinic , started a campaign to persuade children 's hospital wards to admit mothers together with their children , or at least not to restrict visiting in any way ; some hospitals welcomed the idea , others resisted it , but meanwhile a Government committee was set up which in 1959 published the ‘ Platt Report ’ on the welfare of children in hospital , recommending ‘ that all hospitals where children are treated will adopt the practice of unrestricted visiting , particularly for children below school age ’ , that ‘ it is particularly valuable for the mother to be able to stay in hospital with her child during the first day or two ’ , and that ‘ children should not be admitted to hospital if it can possibly be avoided ’ . |
| 23 | Many have only a few hours to spare , but they enjoy helping in this way . |
| 24 | I wish to run up to the window of the Mercedes and shout at the general sitting there : Wake up , you fat bastard , ca n't you see how you look parading in this cemetery , like some overstuffed SS officer in Birkenau ? |
| 25 | I stand looking in that window for ages . |
| 26 | I did keep going in that direction . |
| 27 | The Profitboss does n't see selling in that way at all . |
| 28 | The election commission has therefore countermanded voting in several seats and ordered a re-poll in more than 1,000 booths . |
| 29 | What irritates me about going shopping in any supermarket is having to bag my own goods up . |
| 30 | Or who sees meaning in this change ? |