Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [noun] 's [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment Merrill 's grey eyes clouded ; winding up Elise 's affairs after her death had been a painful business , but there was no one else to do it . |
| 2 | British Rail was ruling out King 's Cross at that stage , yet two or three years later BR tells us that King 's Cross is essential . |
| 3 | IT IS impossible to understand the Victorian age without understanding why Darwin 's theory of the origin of species was so disturbing ; and perhaps it is equally impossible to understand the argument over evolution without learning why it was so fiercely resisted , by scientists as well as laymen . |
| 4 | PC Blenkinsop was writing down Joe 's words with a flourish of his pencil . |
| 5 | The problem is , the competition 's become so fierce , it 's pushing up newspaper 's costs at an alarming rate . |
| 6 | This may take various forms , from simply looking up women 's skirts at every opportunity ( not , in itself , an abnormal occupation ) to spying on sexual intercourse itself , sometimes in intricately planned situations . |
| 7 | People have been scrambling up Cust 's Gully for over 100 years , and in dry conditions it should pose no problems — although it is not particularly attractive and I only included it because it was such a traditional route . |
| 8 | Again , the grant consolidated existing ducal interests , rounding out Gloucester 's influence in the honour of Pickering further east . |
| 9 | Again , the grant consolidated existing ducal interests , rounding out Gloucester 's influence in the honour of Pickering further east . |
| 10 | That , however , did not prevent Clarke 's immediate predecessor from turning down CSM 's proposals for systematic post-marketing surveillance of new drugs , on grounds of ‘ the paramount need to restrain public expenditure ’ , nor Clarke himself from rejecting CSM 's recommendation to license the injectable contraceptive Depo Provera . |
| 11 | At Christmas he had insisted on hanging up Robert 's stocking on the end of his bed , and had suggested the two of them visit the Cranborne School carol service . |
| 12 | Mr Merlyn Rees as Labour Home Secretary had given voice to the more usually reticent position early in 1978 when he charged Mrs Thatcher with ‘ an irresponsible and dangerous approach to law and order … whipping up people 's fears in a ‘ cynical ’ ’ attempt to win votes ' . |
| 13 | ‘ Farrar was the first real researcher into the history of teaching the deaf , and unearthed many previously unknown items of literature about the deaf and was largely responsible for building up Oxley 's Library of the Deaf ( this Library was largely fragmented after Oxley 's death , and many rare articles and books disappeared ) . |
| 14 | Things have become far more sophisticated over the last fifty years , of course — from slowing down Clapton 's licks on record ( while 16RPM was still a reality ) to units like this one . |
| 15 | Gabby came bowling down Jim 's driveway in a truck . |
| 16 | I 'm always sorting out people 's computers for them . |
| 17 | I said I always carry Xtree , I 'm always sorting out people 's computers for them . |
| 18 | She ought to unpack , but she only got as far as getting out Ricky 's photograph in its blue silk frame and putting it beside the bed . |
| 19 | It wrote to a number of firms pointing out Derry 's potential for industrial development . |
| 20 | For my part I would have to decide how much I could tell her without giving away Neil 's presence on Moila . |
| 21 | For managers , this path means continually retraining employees for more complex tasks ; automating in ways that cut routine tasks and enhance worker flexibility and creativity ; diffusing responsibility for innovation ; taking seriously labor 's concern for job–security ; and giving workers a stake in improved productivity through profit-linked bonuses and stock plans . |
| 22 | It examines the considerable difficulties , both intellectual and practical , of taking seriously HMI 's view of the curriculum as needing to be broad , balanced and coherent . |
| 23 | By taking seriously Eliot 's debt to the French symbolistes ( as before him only Allen Tate had done , in The New Republic , 30 June 1926 ) , Wilson was still stressing Eliot 's Americanness by showing at any rate how un-British he was . |
| 24 | Queer how it gets us , all women and no men , the way we let off steam , like being back at school again , lifting up people 's skirts in the cloakroom . |
| 25 | This is a weighty , passionate document mapping out China 's occupation of Tibet and human rights abuses therein . |
| 26 | She devotes the major part of the book to showing how psychology 's view of children has become more rounded . |
| 27 | Even leaving aside Ross 's anger at not being consulted about such an important decision , it would be irresponsible to put her own needs and desires above those of the children . |
| 28 | Leaving aside Bevan 's conception of the " true " representative , it is not clear in what sense a Burkean representative is a representative at all . |
| 29 | The article begins by setting out Swann 's terms of reference and contrasts its liberal optimism with the Macdonald Inquiry 's condemnation of antiracist policies at Burnage High School . |
| 30 | Setting out Labour 's case for international co-operation to strengthen world security and combat environmental degradation , Mr Kinnock said : ‘ It is an argument for global citizenship — a recognition of the fact that in the world now and for the future , passive co-existence is not enough . |