Example sentences of "[noun] be [v-ing] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government are failing in their duty to protect people , the employers are failing in their duty to protect people . |
| 2 | Elena 's parting words are ringing in my ears . |
| 3 | Conservative candidates are standing in our name and in that cause . |
| 4 | His words were ringing in her ears now although they had had little impact before . |
| 5 | Her words were ringing in her ears as she eventually made her way through Customs . |
| 6 | Signals were flashing in her brain . |
| 7 | Her astonished eyes were taking in his costume : gold-embroidered satin jacket , knee breeches and jabot of the eighteenth century . |
| 8 | Luke was speaking again — and this time the eyes were turning in her own direction . |
| 9 | Lucifer 's atmospheric corona was blotting out the stars again , and voices were babbling in his ears . |
| 10 | The two narrative modes walk side by side in bold yet relaxed society , and support each other in the face of the fact that Raskolnikov is shaking in his shoes . |
| 11 | Are there events taking place that we will never ever see because they 're so far away , or maybe they 're taking place in such a way that they 're moving away faster than the light is travelling in our direction ? |
| 12 | And the wind 's blowing in my ears . |
| 13 | The present struggle between Egypt and Syria is assuming in his eyes apocalyptic proportions . |
| 14 | The slow , steady rhythm was pulsing in her veins . |
| 15 | As the hacks speculated about the cloud of black smoke that suddenly appeared over the palace roof — it did not mean that no decision had been taken , only that a chimney had caught fire — the President was browsing in his favourite bookshop , Les Arcades , just below The Sunday Telegraph 's Paris office . |
| 16 | But most of these can be regarded as experimental works designed to clarify the problems that Picasso was facing in his painting . |
| 17 | While Dustin was appearing in his first lead role on Broadway , he was filming at the Biograph Studios in darkest Bronx , thirty minutes by limo ( laid on nightly by Twentieth Century-Fox ) from the Great White Way . |
| 18 | A hand was clapped roughly over her mouth , and she was almost lifted up by the arms and moved at a run back into the house , where Mrs Prynn was waiting in her nightcap and gown , with the trap door into the cellar open and the key in her hand . |
| 19 | The effect was striking in its simplicity , its sobriety , while his face had a gentleness Li Yuan had never seen in it before . |
| 20 | The light was shining in her eyes , swooping towards her . |
| 21 | Dawn Allenby was standing in her coat and headscarf staring at herself in the mirror . |
| 22 | But though the blood was pounding in her head and her vision was blurred she managed to take up the envelope again and lie down with it on her bed . |
| 23 | The wind was blowing in their faces , the odds were against them too up at Orrell , but the Cherry and Whites are at last beginning to stir . |
| 24 | The wind was strengthening in their faces , and more than one man looked up at the sky in puzzlement . |
| 25 | ‘ You look tired , dear , ’ said Doris Smythe when she had hobbled up to her door and let Linda in before carefully locking it again once Linda was standing in her dark hallway . |
| 26 | When I got indoors Mum was out but Frankie was sitting in her chair by the fire warming his toes on the fender . |
| 27 | ‘ So you 're concerned that the legal eagles are getting in your way ? ’ asked Dickin . |
| 28 | So how many folk are working in your section ? |
| 29 | Fred Astaire ( above ) and Rita Hayworth are starring in You 'll Never Get Rich at the Regal , York . |
| 30 | While the middleweights were sparring away , the heavyweights of the All Black selector-coach battle were staying in their corners . |