Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [be] [v-ing] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A seventeen year old girl was seriously injured when the stolen car she was riding in crashed into a tree . |
| 2 | Two people were taken to hospital with cuts and facial bruises after the car they were travelling in smashed into a road sign on the A1 western bypass at Lobley Hill , Gateshead , yesterday . |
| 3 | Second , there are the cash resources available from the Training Agency , for those Compacts it is funding in Urban Programme Areas . |
| 4 | My Lords , I I think perhaps that at this stage er a contribution from the cross benches might not be out of place , since the issue we 're discussing in this rather complicated set of amendments is as the debate has already shown that one er not to be settled just on party lines . |
| 5 | Fifty three women were on a WI outing to Denman College at Abingdon in Oxfordshire when the coach they were travelling in crashed into the back of a truck . |
| 6 | Up to a certain point I was succeeding in both roles , driven as I was towards success by anxiety and the fear of failure . |
| 7 | By Manchester Monday I 'm sitting in Dry surprised to discover that that was only their second gig , and there are only five of them — Tony , Phil and Richard , who are mostly responsible for the music , guitarist Paul , and vocalist Theresa — when live it sounds like at least 20 keyboards going down at once . |
| 8 | To her knowledge she had never led anyone into anything she could n't handle herself , but as he had pointed out before , she could n't always know what sort of reaction she was stirring in those who listened to her songs . |
| 9 | IT IS 500 years since Columbus discovered America — and across the Atlantic they are celebrating in true Hollywood style . |
| 10 | At the moment he 's living in one of brother Sidney 's caravans . ’ |
| 11 | You get the feeling that BMW likes the attention it 's getting in this area — plenty of supercar glory by association without getting its environmentally friendly hands dirty . |
| 12 | Coleridge and Sara began their married life more conventionally , and within a few days he was writing in enraptured terms to Tom Poole from their ‘ comfortable Cot ’ in Clevedon : ‘ the prospect around us is perhaps more various than any in the kingdom — Mine Eye gluttonizes. — The Sea — the distant Islands ! the opposite Coasts ! — I shall assuredly write Rhymes — let the nine Muses prevent it , if they can . ’ |
| 13 | On one occasion I was breaking in new territory in Lincolnshire and my fellow ‘ artiste ’ — a male singer who shall remain nameless — moved in on me . |
| 14 | Tony what 's this stuff we 're using in that one ? |
| 15 | Some teachers felt that the advisers were out of touch with the problems they were having in this respect and saw more oral work as an unrealistic expectation — that pupils did not consider oral as work and were often not prepared to listen , thus to try to do it would only be creating problems . |
| 16 | When they were n't making things they were fighting in other ways . |
| 17 | ‘ They were on the arm of the chair you were sitting in last night . |
| 18 | the only thing to bear in mind is that we a little bit careful w with the changing environment we 're working in that it , with it only being pushed forward by direct projects if if nobody else wants it we could be wasting some of our money . |
| 19 | Ethnomethodology depicts conversation as discourse constructed and negotiated between the participants , following pre-established patterns , and marking the direction they are taking in particular ways : with pauses , laughter , intonations , filler words , and established formulae . |
| 20 | As a relative newcomer to The Artist I am revelling in many of your articles . |
| 21 | The subject they 're tackling in this report is one that makes the blood run cold in most people 's veins … including mine . |
| 22 | Plans in August to become tutor to the children of a Derbyshire widow called Elizabeth Evans quickly foundered ( although Mrs Evans greatly admired Coleridge ) , and by the beginning of September he was speaking in decided terms of opening a day-school in Derby . |
| 23 | Jones seems to have found elements of the trend of thought he is pursuing in modern Western culture , for example in Owen Barfield , Loren Eiseley , Michael Polanyi and Peter Ouspensky . |
| 24 | Probably under Archbishop Edmund [ q.v. ] he was promoted to the Canterbury peculiar of Harrow , the chancel of whose church he was repairing in 1242 . |
| 25 | By analysing the products he is selling in this way , a salesman will communicate in terms which are meaningful to buyers and therefore be more convincing . |
| 26 | Er but I did it at a scale like erm one centimetre for o for every hour it 's blowing in that direction . |
| 27 | Quite apart from the fact that it is ludicrous to compare the persons of Baron Thyssen and of Mr Khalili as collectors , as also to compare the status of their collections ( Baron Thyssen is not proposing to buy and sell from his collection while it is on loan in Madrid ) , it is clear from the information we are publishing in this issue , that the rental of the Thyssen Collection was a luxury Britain could have ill afforded , and not a ‘ lost opportunity ’ . |
| 28 | When patients come to hospital they are living in close contact with more people than usual . |
| 29 | It was already in her hand before he spoke , and by the time the men came back with the table and pillows they were running in normal saline through a line in his hand . |
| 30 | Apparently the private jet they were travelling in crashed into the side of a mountain in thick fog . ’ |