Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terrible things are happening in Germany that we need to explain to our listeners . |
| 2 | In a sense his experience supports his theory , but also mocks it , for the ability to perceive what is happening in London when you are in Oxford is not true spiritual knowledge . |
| 3 | The same is true of the health service , the more the private health educa the pri private health welfare comes in , the less chance there is of people who are , who are articulate and people who count in British society start speaking up with the rest of us and saying come on we we 've got a common interest and a common stake in this service and we want the best po for for everybody and the same will start happening in housing if you get your way . |
| 4 | For the man or woman in the fast lane , keeping in touch while you 're on the move is safer and simpler than ever before with the new British Telecom 's Azure cellphone . |
| 5 | The drop down from Meall Corranaich and back up to Beinn Ghlas was a great deal more substantial than I would have wished at this point in the walk , keeping in mind that I was hallucinating from the effort of the chase and the subsequent lack of oxygen managing to get anywhere near my lungs via a mouth full of clenched teeth . |
| 6 | He began anagramming , twisting letters round , keeping in mind where they had been going , where Mary was still going … |
| 7 | He was trying to pull her back down to the ground and laughing in disbelief as he did it . |
| 8 | Beatrix Potter was holidaying in Gloucester when she learned of a local legend about a tailor called John Pritchard … who returned to work on a Monday morning to find an unfinished coat mysteriously completed over the weekend . |
| 9 | Although Ian Craig and Vivien Allan are both from New Farm Loch , it was not until holidaying in Blackpool that they met . |
| 10 | There was nothing more to see in Main Street except the eternal fascination of boats bobbing in water as we set off past the ship 's chandler — and behind , as casually as an oak or a beech tree in England , dozens of the orange trees which had given the town of Anani its name . |
| 11 | I am afraid that while this ban is in force my wife and I will not be trading in Darlington as we have done for the last 20 years . |
| 12 | As with foreign service premia , hardship allowances are normally calculated as a percentage of salary — with higher percentages , sometimes 30 per cent or more , applying in areas where it is particularly difficult or unpleasant to live and work . |
| 13 | George was frowning in thought as they clattered up the prison-like stone steps to his set . |
| 14 | I kind of wished I 'd sat behind Verity ; I would n't have seen so much of her — not even a hint of that slim , smooth face , frowning in concentration as she barrelled the big black Beemer towards the next corner — but I would n't have been able to see the speedometer , either . |
| 15 | It was while Murdock was living in Cornwall that he did his experiments with the model locomotive and his work on gas lighting . |
| 16 | It was also while Murdock was living in Redruth that he started his experiments with coal gas . |
| 17 | I spent a year living in Italy and I fell in love with the rustic feel and lifestyle . |
| 18 | British Rugby League , the former Wigan coach had said , was living in dreamland if it thought its standards had risen to match those of Australia . |
| 19 | I got to know it pretty well when I was living in Sheffield and I 'd recommend anyone to take a walking holiday there . |
| 20 | So consequently she 's living in Bay and I 'm living on my own in up in Holyhead . |
| 21 | And then I did n't see her again until about nine years ago , when I was living in America and we were introduced again . |
| 22 | It had taken a few days to persuade her ladyship to accept change , for she had for so long been used to living in squalor that she could not at first accustom herself to an altered way of life . |
| 23 | ‘ Sir Patrick has spent a large part of his life living in Africa and we are an African company , so to speak , ’ says Cluff . |
| 24 | VILLAGERS in Peru are living in terror that they are about to be haunted by a vampire … from Blackburn . |
| 25 | Inez was friendly with a woman living in Hayle and she used to visit pretty often , usually on Sundays ; occasionally she would stay overnight . |
| 26 | One could use various pejorative terms to describe that which I wo n't but but my clients felt very strongly that there are not very many people living in Scotton and it was an easy option to say let's push the road further away . |
| 27 | ‘ Ever since work started on the re-design of the front area we have been living in fear that we will come back on Monday morning and they will have put bricks through the windows again . ’ |
| 28 | A similar romantic nationalist tradition was also developing in Russia and it too seems to have influenced Marx . |
| 29 | The question that the Government must answer is whether , if they were to maintain their stand-back attitude and what they call their options , British investors — not simply inward investors — who want to sell their produce throughout the Community and the rest of Europe would give priority to investing and developing in Britain when they had every reason to believe that the Government were ever ready to withdraw from the European process . |
| 30 | Was n't it time she stopped believing in love since she had no evidence to suggest that such an unselfish , uplifting emotion existed outside the imagination of those who wanted to be duped ? |