Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [noun prp] 's [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Again , the grant consolidated existing ducal interests , rounding out Gloucester 's influence in the honour of Pickering further east . |
| 4 | Again , the grant consolidated existing ducal interests , rounding out Gloucester 's influence in the honour of Pickering further east . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 7 | Gabby came bowling down Jim 's driveway in a truck . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It wrote to a number of firms pointing out Derry 's potential for industrial development . |
| 10 | For my part I would have to decide how much I could tell her without giving away Neil 's presence on Moila . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This is a weighty , passionate document mapping out China 's occupation of Tibet and human rights abuses therein . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Leaving aside Bevan 's conception of the " true " representative , it is not clear in what sense a Burkean representative is a representative at all . |
| 16 | ‘ It 'll cost , ’ said Lloyd , weighing up Tel 's wallet with his X-ray vision . |