Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [noun] ['s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine this scenario : you 've just locked yourself out , and are frantically leafing through a neighbour 's Yellow Pages to find a locksmith . |
| 2 | Resting after a life 's hard work . ’ |
| 3 | Z Company were just returning from a fortnight 's well-earned leave while , as always , HQ Company were administering , paying , feeding , clothing and transporting the rest of the battalion . |
| 4 | ‘ Nothing in section 4 ( 1 ) above shall affect the determination of any issue , or prevent the admission or requirement of any evidence , relating to a person 's previous convictions or to circumstances ancillary thereto — |
| 5 | Ten years on , the situation was different but , according to a People 's Daily editorial entitled ‘ A Great Decade ’ ( 22. 12. 1988 ) . |
| 6 | She would be drinking coffee as if it cost less than water , wearing alligator shoes made to fit her pretty feet , and watching at Tommaso 's side a parade of half-naked girls with bracelets round their legs , whirling to a drummer 's flying hands , while a group of handsome , grinning soldiers stood by . |
| 7 | A pattern is forming — a str–tegy , her strategy — her acting , me reacting like a frog 's hind leg ! |
| 8 | Union officer DEBORAH LEON , 32 , of Guisborough , Cleveland , perished heading for a month 's trekking holiday . |
| 9 | Brown 's message is turning into a zealot 's redemption-seeking rant , with scant regard for facts or figures , for his own past record ( ’ I Lobbied : It Was Bad ’ mocked one headline ) , for the need for compromise to make laws , least of all for financial contraints . |
| 10 | Once , owing to a printer 's understandable failure to decipher my proof corrections , a book of mine appeared with a recipe which called for the whisked whites of 123 eggs … no reader has ever written to me demanding an explanation of this recipe . ) |
| 11 | The appreciation of learning : including its life-long nature striving for a person 's full potential , self-discipline , independent thinking and aesthetic sensitivity , as well as respect for other cultures and freedom of expression . |
| 12 | Emma , nine , screamed at six-year-old Craig when she spotted him getting into a stranger 's white Fiesta outside their grandmother 's home in Speke , Liverpool . |
| 13 | A thousand years of winter grazing on a city 's historic common land could be set to end . |
| 14 | Finally , we may detect a marked tendency to integrate subjects hitherto taught separately , a trend reflecting curriculum practice in Britain but also stemming from a desire to stress the relatedness of learning within a child 's own environment . |
| 15 | Unless means can be found for experienced teachers to have at least the equivalent of a whole year studying for a Master 's level retraining , the partially sighted will be leading the blind . |
| 16 | What on earth would people think if Miriam started talking of a gentleman 's natural functions in front of the wedding guests when she and Fleury got married ; in some ways the prospect of such a solecism seemed more terrible to Louise than the possibility of one or both of them not surviving the siege . |
| 17 | More youngsters are finding their own values clashing with a school 's social codes , some are picking up contradictory messages from the media and more are coming from broken or damaged families . |
| 18 | Playing with a man 's bare bum |
| 19 | It looks revolting , glistening like a puppy 's fresh turd . |
| 20 | Today a player is simply a pawn , part of a highly organised unit working to a manager 's predetermined set of tactics . |