Example sentences of "and [noun] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 gets past but he ca n't get past and Shrewsbury are breaking with it but they 're still inside their own half at the moment with Kevin who gave them the fighting chance with the original equalizer inside the first half .
2 He has few friends , and already the pressure Ipuky and Reni are putting on him through their friends is filtering down to me .
3 On the buzzer I rolled over quite a large flathead , but it missed , and that was a fish much bigger than the flatheads both Kate and Ben were catching with great rapidity on fish portions .
4 The next second , the door swung open and Doyle was standing in the doorway , with a tray in his hands , looking at them both .
5 The sun was falling towards the horizon and birds were hurrying to their evening roosts .
6 He had a few drinks and fell asleep and when he woke up he was in bed and Beryl was lying beside him .
7 It got to the stage where me and Mum were coming to blows .
8 By that time Dad and Mum were standing in a line with Bri along the hall .
9 Andy and William are standing on a seat ; Andy leans out over a table laden with glasses , a champagne bottle in one hand and his other arm held by William , who leans out the opposite way to balance him .
10 He and William were working in a field covered with snow .
11 It was seven minutes past nine the following morning and Lisa was standing in Alexander Vass 's office , having reported for duty fifteen minutes earlier .
12 LOCAL owners and riders are meeting in Loftus Town Hall at 7pm on Wednesday to discuss the problems of horse-riding in the area .
13 The picture with regard to briefing and preparation was encouraging with only one assistant reporting that she had not been briefed .
14 Betinna and Liese were sitting by it , their faces half shadowed in darkness , half aglow from the flames .
15 Cattle and sheep are dying in every direction .
16 And there 'll be playing for civic pride in Hereford over the coming week … more than a thousand sports men and women from Cheltenham , Worcester and Hereford are competing in 21 different sports in the annual ’ Sport for All ’ festival .
17 Amnesty had recorded 45 death-squad murders in the first eight months of 1990 , compared with 40 for the whole of 1989 , and said that killings , torture and disappearances were continuing despite the human rights agreement signed by the government and the FMLN on July 26 [ see p. 37707 ] .
18 By yesterday the story had changed , and Vallance was leaving after a row with Michael Hepher , the managing director recruited from Lloyds Bank .
19 And Sarah was asking after
20 The pollution inspectorate , which is expected to oversee the process , is currently understaffed and personnel are suffering from low morale .
21 Claudia could have warned him to beware of Roman when that note entered his voice but Dana and Garry were smiling at each other in mutual satisfaction .
22 And so that means erm he come in he come in and Danielle was lying across my arm like that and he
23 New rules for athletes in Portugal are being drawn up and Mota is helping with the project .
24 The acquisition would not have been possible without the help of the National Heritage Museum Fund and discussions are continuing with the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland regarding a grant towards endowment costs .
25 The largest rookery in Oxfordshire dominates a high security storage area , and owls are moving into nesting boxes around the sight .
26 It is an original , and Warner is looking for a serialisation .
27 Jack and Alison were going for a few days to Amsterdam .
28 When I got to school , Kate and Alison were waiting for me .
29 Xanthe 's bathroom is raspberry and cream , with toile de Jouy curtains of shepherds and shepherdesses with crooks and ribbons fluttering from them , and Feeny 's sitting beside them in her flowered pinafore by the tub , on the stool with matching toile de Jouy cover and frill .
30 The fact that heads and teachers of very differing professional styles and values were working in Leeds throughout this period demonstrates , of course , that other factors were at work and that the wilder accusations of patronage which came our way needed to be treated with considerable caution .
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