Example sentences of "and [pron] [be] [v-ing] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I think that it 's erm a good idea for members to see what firemen and I 'm thinking in particular really of fire fight fighters I should n't say firemen , fire fighters , we 've got ladies , erm , who are retained and can be at their du place of work one minute , and twenty minutes afterwards they 've got to face up to ho horrendous sights , erm , it must have a tr traumatic effect on them . |
| 2 | My legs have split wide open and I 'm paddling in warm liquid … sweet Jesus ! my trainers are full of blood . |
| 3 | While I have deliberately exaggerated this example to illustrate the emergence of a pattern or theme , there are a large number of people in our society who would satisfy two-thirds of these items and who are working in large structured organizations in which their search for predictability is reinforced on a daily basis . |
| 4 | Beings who were now dead or dying , and who were lying in tangled , dreadfully mutilated heaps . |
| 5 | I take that point and we are keeping in close contact with local authorities . |
| 6 | The third one focusing in specifically on the combat modelling is what is known as a C O E I A which is a combined operational effectiveness and investment appraisal and this work is being carried out at Farnborough and we 're comparing in single roles and multi-role Eurofighter two thousand against different aircraft . |
| 7 | One night when there was an air raid alert on , and we were trying in vain to sleep through the usual ‘ noises off ’ , mainly the big anti-aircraft guns situated it seemed at the end of the garden , there was suddenly the most appalling crash immediately over our heads . |