Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Forty-four-year-old Robin Phelps from Brockweir was one of two men who died after the gantry they were working on collapsed and fell more than a hundred and fifty feet into the Severn in September ( 1990 ) nineteen-ninety .
4 People do not know which authority they are paying for particular services .
5 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 .
6 When patients come to hospital they are living in close contact with more people than usual .
7 These are hard persistent offenders who are not benefitting from the treatment they 're getting from social workers .
8 With R&D they are looking for new products ; with community programmes they are looking to develop an environment that is good for business . ’
9 Apparently the private jet they were travelling in crashed into the side of a mountain in thick fog . ’
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