Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glasgow 's newest hotel , ‘ The Forum ’ chose Stoddard Mercia 's contract carpeting throughout the reception area and two restaurants on the ground floor . |
| 2 | They took no notice of the black Mercedes as it slipped noiselessly out of the parking space behind them , the driver 's foot hovering over the accelerator . |
| 3 | Was the rule in Pinnel 's Case binding on the House of Lords ? |
| 4 | This much was true , that I often found myself in my mother 's kitchen staring at the array of condiments , spices , herbs and tinned foods , wondering why she should have bought this particular kind of split peas , rather than another . |
| 5 | Item 3 of Schedule 3 to the TMA 1970 specifies that an appeal against any part of a Schedule E assessment should take place in the Commissioner 's division relating to the place of employment . |
| 6 | The moon was almost full , casting long shadows on the ground and they saw Tock 's cottage glimmering in the distance . |
| 7 | Within a few minutes she saw him riding towards her up the hill , his horse 's harness glinting in the sun . |
| 8 | As she went to answer she noticed a white envelope addressed to her in Luke 's handwriting lying on the doormat . |
| 9 | That is the amount of the retailer 's loss arising from the wholesaler 's breach of contract . |
| 10 | When I recovered myself and controlled my weeping , my attention was attracted by Granny 's photograph hanging over the mantelshelf . |
| 11 | He saw the pig 's bladder lying at the boy 's feet , very similar to the one he had seen two children playing with on Holborn thoroughfare . |
| 12 | The actions were consolidated , the plaintiff 's action standing as the claim , the defendants ' claim for the commission being the counterclaim . |
| 13 | She could see the wash of her own boat , white in the black lagoon , and the crystal curve of Lucenzo 's boat cleaving through the water at a terrifying rate . |
| 14 | the car his the front passenger wind and sent Otis 's car flying across the road , straight into a waiting bus . |
| 15 | Or try the heart-in-mouth sensation when you 're strolling with your lover at some secret rendezvous and you suddenly see a neighbour across the street or your husband 's car waiting at the lights . |
| 16 | A lorry-driver 's eye-view going through the town of Lydney in Gloucestershire . |
| 17 | In its style , the work recalls some of Prowse 's Jacobean productions , and when at the end a backcloth spattered with blood covers the wall and the line from Marlowe , about Christ 's blood streaming in the firmament , is spoken , Wilde 's belief that a work of art could be neither moral nor immoral has been overturned . |
| 18 | MPs were debating Maastricht again in the Commons last night after yesterday 's 22-hour sitting on the treaty ratification bill . |
| 19 | Also reaffirmed was a commitment to protect the environment and to the creation of a new regional ecological order , support being expressed for the Costa Rican government 's proposal calling on the UN to establish a Council of the Planet Earth during the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Brazil in 1992 . |
| 20 | In the heather Luch crouched rigid , frozen by Marion 's screams of rage and hatred , and Lachlan 's laughter fading down the track . |
| 21 | In that moment Virginia remembered what Trudy Paish had said : that she 'd seen the witch 's cat riding through the air on a broomstick . |
| 22 | Guy 's fist hammering on the door of the inn broke into Isabel 's rambling thoughts . |
| 23 | I want to see Donald 's flag blowing in the wind . ’ |
| 24 | The influence of Cézanne becomes very apparent in the landscapes of La Ciotat of the summer of 1907 , which show Braque 's work hanging in the balance between Fauvism and a much more structural kind of painting . |
| 25 | ‘ Incidentally there 's an exhibition of Tate 's work starting in the town next week . |
| 26 | Food comes pretty much free with the husband 's job working in the fields for the team . |
| 27 | German doctors at a university hospital in Bavaria planned to keep the unnamed brain-dead woman 's body functioning for the sake of the child , which was not due to be born until next April . |
| 28 | Some baby 's body smoking among the stalks . |
| 29 | You took the ferry at Dalmeny and then used the horses from the royal stables at Aberdour to journey to Kinghorn , and it was then you found the King 's body lying on the beach ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I saw a woman 's body Iying in the passage behind the personal door from the garage , ’ said Melissa wearily . |