Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] to its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bowing down everything and driving it back to its cave . |
| 2 | He slid the table into the centre of the room , tipping it on to its side , and dragged over the couch with Mariana still on it , so that the furniture formed a fort . |
| 3 | Genius is the bust of Beethoven and Keats dying and Shelley dying and the size of War and Peace and poor old Sartre banging away at his trilogy and Hemingway paring it down to its essence and Monet unable to distinguish colours any more and Picasso staring out at the camera with his chest bare and his eyes blazing and Cézanne snarling like a dog and then walking out of Aix with his canvas and paints on his back to paint that mountain and Byron dying and Pushkin dying and all the rest of it . |
| 4 | It is vital to find the essence in the traditional idea by tracing it back to its origin . |
| 5 | About 100 yds after passing confluence of streams cross right-hand path to river where safe , and ascend a few yards to reach well-defined path which leads parallel to right-hand stream , following it up to its source . |