Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [be] [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I waved aside her gratitude , being much more keenly preoccupied by the difficulty I was having in making myself stand upright without hanging on to something . |
| 2 | In these conditions I wanted to get rid of about a third of the original sail area and so that 's it , now I 'm sailing much more happily instead of struggling against the boat I 'm sailing in harmony again . |
| 3 | A seventeen year old girl was seriously injured when the stolen car she was riding in crashed into a tree . |
| 4 | I hope that 's not your prick you 're sticking in my back , ’ he said , his annoyance obvious . |
| 5 | Marjorie turned over in bed with a deep , sobbing sigh , and he felt vaguely and wearily sorry for whatever unhappiness she was feeling in her sleep . |
| 6 | ‘ Now we 'll begin again , ’ said the CEO , ‘ and we will bury all the thinking we were doing in the last meeting and approach everything from a new angle . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | My brother-in-law is making her manageress of the London salon he 's opening in the autumn . |
| 9 | There is some fella he 's working in his back yard and he 's hammering all day , I I wish he 'd give it up . |
| 10 | And I did and to be quite honest , I mean it was n't the money really when you think about it because at end of day , forty six pound he were spending in pub anyway . |
| 11 | Soon after One-Leg 's publication I was lying in my bath in what is shown to visitors as Lord Anglesey 's Bathroom , looking out on the incomparable view of the Menai Strait with the majesty of Snowdon beyond , when a bold idea occurred to me . |
| 12 | Lalage looked up only when Dada , having completed a diagram of salt and pepper pots , directed her attention to the flat silver dish she was delaying in its stately passage round the table . |
| 13 | a Chinese girl she 's living in it , in a kind of a real dive of loft thing to do her art and she gives him the odd painting instead of paying rent . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This research examines the face-to-face communications between teachers and children in primary classrooms , in order to understand better the ways in which teachers and children develop a shared understanding of the work they are doing in class . |
| 16 | In pairs of this type , the work being done by " you know what I mean " and " you know " is fundamentally different from the work they are doing in the more Standard sort of exchange in ( 1 ) . |
| 17 | They praised publishers for the work they were doing in making the national curriculum manageable , for example by relating content to attainment targets . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A couple of scientists had been working on Edgeøya for most of the summer , and this young bear had appeared near the old trapper 's hut they were staying in ( which was near the beach where we had landed ) . |
| 20 | Next second they were sprawling in the mud and water , motor cycle on top of them . |
| 21 | In general Wilson and Stewart were complimented on the political assistance they were providing in what for them was an " agonisingly difficult " situation . |
| 22 | Now in his eighties but cracklingly alert , he is happy alike to talk about his view of Hamlet and his literary friends in the town , the work he was doing in the church , the essays he was writing : there is an irresistible donnish delight in his manner and calmness , the repose of the greatly confident — a quality which was later attributed to Richard . |
| 23 | It is also important that the teacher is quite familiar with the electronic equipment he is using in order to get the best results from his efforts . |
| 24 | Last year at about this time it produced the admirable Victorian Newcastle painter Ralph Hedley ; this winter it is showing in ‘ A Romance with the North East ’ Rober and Isa ( Thompson ) Jobling , who lived and worked there until the 1920s producing powerful and poetic images of its countryside coast and people . |
| 25 | On the evidence of his recital he is increasing in assurance and beginning to fulfil expectations . |
| 26 | The difficulty she was having in making sense of the boys ' education was illustrated by the packet of letters she had brought to school in the morning . |
| 27 | At the moment I am residing in a hostel where I have to share all the basic amenities and do my share of cleaning up . |
| 28 | One moment I was revelling in the astonishment of being alive , and the next — I was lying flat on my face , with what felt like a very large hole in the right side of my skull … |
| 29 | This is not just a point I am making in passing . |
| 30 | Up to a certain point I was succeeding in both roles , driven as I was towards success by anxiety and the fear of failure . |