Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Up to a certain point I was succeeding in both roles , driven as I was towards success by anxiety and the fear of failure . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At the moment he 's living in one of brother Sidney 's caravans . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Tony what 's this stuff we 're using in that one ? |
| 11 | ‘ They were on the arm of the chair you were sitting in last night . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As a relative newcomer to The Artist I am revelling in many of your articles . |
| 15 | The subject they 're tackling in this report is one that makes the blood run cold in most people 's veins … including mine . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Er but I did it at a scale like erm one centimetre for o for every hour it 's blowing in that direction . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | When patients come to hospital they are living in close contact with more people than usual . |
| 21 | Apparently the private jet they were travelling in crashed into the side of a mountain in thick fog . ’ |
| 22 | He waved a bulging brown paper bag he was carrying in one hand . |
| 23 | A MAN was killed when the van he was travelling in crashed off the road and hit a fence and a tree in North Northumberland yesterday . |