Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] be [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | For three hours I was sitting in a dressing gown . |
| 2 | The relationships you build up with our clients and the advertisers , with the clients you 're working in their own er their offices for three weeks so you get to know people . |
| 3 | David Mellor , the man who warned journalists they were drinking in the Last Chance Saloon , was about to call last orders on himself . |
| 4 | Second , there are the cash resources available from the Training Agency , for those Compacts it is funding in Urban Programme Areas . |
| 5 | ‘ A bit of a blip in that special offer on silk scarves we 're running in the next issue , ’ Petronella said . |
| 6 | If they believe that by cutting the salaries of two or three people at the top of the operation they can pay for all those goodies they are living in cloud cuckoo land . |
| 7 | Working from these , and with microorganisms he is culturing in his laboratory to metabolise related compounds from the chlorodioxin group , Chakrabarty is seeking a single culture that can degrade 2,4,5-T to the point where heavily contaminated soil can be returned in a matter of days to healthy soil that can support plant life . |
| 8 | I only once went into his garden , a beautifully kept one , even in war-time , when he kindly picked a bunch of tulips for me and showed me some new potatoes he was growing in pots in the greenhouse . |
| 9 | Smiling , she turned away , concentrating her gaze on the notes she was writing in an attempt to distance herself . |
| 10 | Her head was pounding now , a result of the tension of the evening , she suspected , and the near-homicidal tendencies she was discovering in the company of this thoroughly unpleasant man . |
| 11 | For the first two weeks I was living in a double room with Toril . |
| 12 | Bhutto , who lost one of the seats she was contesting in the north-western city of Peshawar , alleged on Oct. 25 that there had been " massive fraud across the country " . |
| 13 | and you absolutely no knew nothing about producing plain bearings you were sitting in the chair and probably a guy that worked his way through the factory floor who knew the job inside out , he was still |
| 14 | Whether you quote or paraphrase , it is important that your essay distinguishes clearly between your own words — your own voice , as we have described it above — and those words and ideas you are embedding in your work which originate elsewhere . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | But we ought to be aware of what values we 're holding in in various |
| 17 | This will give you additional practice of the sounds , but now in a context , e.g. : secondly , put the sounds you are practising in the frame , and substitute elsewhere , so that you do n't concentrate any more on the difficult contrast . |
| 18 | Moreover , we recognise the seminal changes we are seeking in the approach to development and ‘ progress ’ may well require fundamental institutional changes beyond that envisaged in Threshold 21 . |
| 19 | The extent of airline regulation illustrates many of the principles we are studying in Part 3 . |
| 20 | Chairman Andrew Wassell , who has been asked by the Takeover Panel to clarify his comments to the Guardian on Wednesday about the level of acceptances , said : ‘ It is much too soon to know but I am encouraged by the efforts we are making in winning support for our bid . ’ . |
| 21 | Chairman Andrew Wassell , who has been asked by the Takeover Panel to clarify his comments to the Guardian on Wednesday about the level of acceptances , said : ‘ It is much too soon to know but I am encouraged by the efforts we are making in winning support for our bid . ’ . |
| 22 | Teachers involved in LAMP found the changes they were making in their teaching approaches were encouraging all their pupils to become more involved in their mathematics and to surpass traditional expectations at every level . |
| 23 | It is important to stress at this point that these early sociologists were not intensely ‘ radical ’ individuals , but rather could frequently be more accurately labelled as ‘ conservatives ’ made uneasy by the changes they were observing in society . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When they were n't making things they were fighting in other ways . |
| 26 | Nevertheless there was no differentiation in the shop between the fire and other goods he was selling in his secondary line of business . |
| 27 | ‘ Them 's trees they 're burning in there . ’ |
| 28 | Finally , probably the most decisive factor of all is whether both parties were properly advised legally , and equally skilled technically and commercially , so that they should have been capable of adequately assessing the risks and rewards they were undertaking in the transactions and of producing a contract document which properly reflected this . |
| 29 | When you have written down your global impressions , explore how they might mirror the way you see yourself , and the challenges you are facing in your personal and spiritual growth . |
| 30 | Dry off all the bits you were soaking in the soapy water . |