Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] in [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can see how Dorothy Sayers did it by having the victim being supposed to be actively painting when in fact he was dead , and it is by using some such piece of lateral thinking , making the victim provide the alibi in this instance , that the trick is probably most easily brought off . |
| 2 | She was waiting where in life she had waited , outside the station , near where the road forked , going in one direction to Bures , in the other to Sudbury . |
| 3 | So much of my time is spent designing or in meetings it 's all too easy to forget that this , ’ he gazed around him , ‘ is the purpose of it all . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I always like to help The Thin Blue Line , ’ I smiled , not adding that in Brixton it was called The Thick , etc . |
| 5 | may be right in saying that in Greece there is ‘ very little employment in the private sector ’ , but he fails to mention that only under the new law people who fail to get tenure at universities are now eligible for employment in the public sector . |
| 6 | By a letter dated 9 March 1990 , Mr. White , National Sales Manager of the Norwich Union , wrote to the applicant , saying that in principle he was : |
| 7 | Boswell tried to rally by saying that in India there is a distinction , and Johnson put him down hard . |
| 8 | You were saying that in fact you still do n't get any training . |
| 9 | it 's been cleaned with er windowlene , we do n't want you licking that in case there 's any traces on it , apart from the filthy mess you make of the window , right , there 's one coat on , are we at last beginning to get somewhere I ask myself |
| 10 | From a distance it is easy to believe that a child is counting when in fact he is only reciting a number sequence and touching or moving objects at random . |
| 11 | Mark is quietly claiming that in Jesus we have to do with none other than Yahweh , who had come to our world in the man Jesus . |
| 12 | At the beginning of this erm programme he admitted that we had an excellent education service in Oxfordshire , and he 's now , having taken no part in managing it for the last five years , he is now claiming that in fact it 's due to what happened before . |
| 13 | A testator would not set out to establish a trust , or to confirm his will in trust form , hoping that in details his intention would take precedence over his words : the civil law already coped with these problems , and the law of trusts was able to follow rather than lead . |
| 14 | Some of our competitors in the north have been er really struggling and erm offering four pounds off on a seven pound fifty entrance fee so bearing that in mind we 're v v very confident that we 've im improved our market share in that area too . |
| 15 | In Winter we 're digging and in summer we eat outside as much as possible and enjoy looking at the fruits of our labour . " |
| 16 | Other member parties in the coalition , however , were reported to prefer the formation of a new government without elections , anticipating that in elections they stood to lose votes to regional autonomy parties . |