Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned the truck in the direction he had pointed , Myeloski once again walking in front of the two headlights that lit his path for him . |
| 2 | Then it does n't matter so much what you say that stops it walking in front of the bus , it 's actually how you say it . |
| 3 | Assembling in front of the Eiffel Tower , the teams drove through France and sailed the Med safely enough before rumbling south from Algiers with back-up that did not include much besides a wing and a prayer . |
| 4 | At this stage bottles and stones began landing in front of the podium , amid general uproar . |
| 5 | I kept this dark secret for 15 years — but when it started happening in front of the children , I knew I had to do something about it . |
| 6 | I do not think that it would be proper for me to get involved in what is happening in terms of the Mirror Group pension fund . |
| 7 | It took a crew of sixty a week to set up the stage and seating in front of the ruined tithe barn in the grounds of Sudeley Castle for the four day festival . |
| 8 | However , many functional designs were protected through the artistic copyright subsisting in drawings of the design for the full term of life of author plus 50 years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It said : ‘ The council has written to a number of stores requesting undertakings that they cease trading in contravention of the Sunday trading provisions of the Shops Act . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It wrecked a Mercedes-Benz car driving in front of the bus and blew out the windows of the bus , which then crashed into the back of the Mercedes . |
| 13 | Thursday night I was living in dread of the choir . |
| 14 | Erm but the most unfortunate thing that Old Edward the the old chap who owned the place he was living in part of the house and Old Jane , his housekeeper , my mother she could bake bread and wash , her mother had taught her that , but it was making butter that was the problem . |
| 15 | ‘ He had us living in fear of the Great Danes for four days before the match . |
| 16 | With her soaked blonde hair plastered in a rather mermaid-like curtain around her face and shoulders , and the wet black denim clinging tightly to her legs , she stared back , shivering in spite of the warm June night , unnerved by the piercing appraisal , but unable to prevent herself from returning the curiosity … |
| 17 | For front projection , the projector is still threaded up reversing left and right , as in rear projection ( it is put in the ‘ wrong ’ way round in order to come out correct in the final composite ) ; but instead of being behind a translucent screen it s in front of , and to one side of , a glass beaded screen which reflects nearly 100 per cent of the light falling on it but on y in the direction from which it came Though the projector is at 90° to the camera-screen axis and its beam is therefore initially parallel to the plane of the screen , passing in front of the actors in the foreground this beam is deflected by a half-silvered mirror at an angle of 45° to the beam This semi-transparent mirror is coated at the front ( unlike normal mirrors , coated behind the glass ) with a very thin layer of aluminium — silver tarnishes too easily Alternatively , the layer of aluminium may be spattered on , so that tiny reflective spots of metal are interspersed with tiny transparent gaps So , although it reflects the beam , the camera can photograph both the action and the reflection from the screen through the mirror Though the mirror reflects the still or moving image from the projector on to the actors and any foreground props or sets as well as on to the screen , the level of illumination of the image is much less than that on the actors , so the camera records only that part of the image reflected from the screen . |
| 18 | Whitlock said , pausing in front of the desk to look down at Kolchinsky . |
| 19 | She wrapped the gown close around her body and wandered back into the living-room , moving around aimlessly , pausing in front of the enormous bookcase that virtually filled one large section of the room from top to bottom . |
| 20 | The loaders are skilled in fitting in packages of the most awkward shapes ; and as each article is placed in a van it is entered upon a slip for later reference . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | It was late in the day and we were still waiting our turn ; still wandering in search of the Promised Land . |
| 23 | The most common form of protest was arson , particularly damaging in view of the rich and dry stacks of the harvest just gathered . |
| 24 | ‘ This verse described a boy who had been trembling in front of the bathroom door , but at the same time this boy was swallowed up by the verse ; it surmounted and survived him . |
| 25 | Although a two-state success/failure branch for components and systems is often used , this may be inadequate when we have to examine partial successes or failures ; this treatment for the plant might well produce thousands of sequences , so these are usually grouped into a small set of typical sequence states that will be bounding in terms of the consequences one is looking for . |
| 26 | Timber operations on 66,000 acres of US national forests in Oregon , Washington and California states have been blocked by a federal judge , acting in support of the law which protects the Spotted Owl as an endangered species [ see ED no. 40 ] . |
| 27 | The protectorate agreement itself is not opposable to third States , although a third State that concluded an agreement with France with respect to Morocco would be acting in reliance of the bestowal of authority contained within it . |
| 28 | He claims that he had no intention of acting in defiance of the court order . |
| 29 | President Mobutu Sese Seko , acting in defiance of the national conference ( in session since July 1991 — see pp. 38323 ; 38378 ) and of Prime Minister Etienne Tshisekedi ( elected in August — see p. 39039 ) , attempted on Dec. 1 to dissolve the government . |
| 30 | But he was now acting in defence of the properties of Canterbury , a matter for which he alone was responsible . |