Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | This switch was intended to enable Roshanara to retain her influence by stepping in as the child 's regent . |
| 2 | I 'm driving on to the train 's roar beat , |
| 3 | And they were not ‘ luxuries ’ but , in the higher standard of living , had become essentials for anyone with the modest ambition of keeping up with the Jones 's — wireless sets , gramophones , motor bikes , motor cars , vacuum cleaners , geysers , Oxford Bags , artificial silk stockings , tennis racquets and steel-shafted mashie niblicks . |
| 4 | ‘ They can be a devil , ’ Guido told her , climbing back into the driver 's seat . |
| 5 | Magee raised an arm to stop it , walking round to the driver 's side . |
| 6 | premises ‘ over the shop ’ , looking on to the town 's main streets , can provide desirable offices for local professional firms , or indeed flats — residential use in particular keeps the streets alive in the evenings and at weekends when the shops are shut . |
| 7 | As he rushed onwards it lengthened and curved , until he stood at the edge of a cold volcanic cauldron , looking down at the mountain 's secret , a still , dark lake which gleamed green at the foot of the crags . |
| 8 | There is a comfy lounge , a bar and a stylish TV room and the traditional style dining-room boasts an amazing rococo fantasy of cherubs and angels looking down from the building 's original ceiling . |
| 9 | The dustbin men were picking up outside The Wife 's Legs . |
| 10 | These weeks provide a very enjoyable rounding up of the year 's work , a chance to sample some new outdoor pursuits and a valuable lesson in community living . |
| 11 | Others designed the sculpture for a specific viewpoint , which can sometimes be reconstructed by looking up into the figure 's eyes . |
| 12 | And then erm Cathy taking Dessy for and and her looking up at the Dessy 's head . |
| 13 | In looking back at the department 's achievements , one has to accept that reorganisation which Judy and Simon have already referred to , has because of its sheer scale and impact on N C V O been something of an abiding preoccupation over the past twelve to eighteen months . |
| 14 | Looking back on the community 's experience of opposition , she reflected ‘ If we had got going earlier , and got support from all the locals , if we had n't waffled for ages , and demonstrated properly , and been more vocal — we had difficulty raising money , we just could n't raise money — we would have made an impact . |
| 15 | In his second feature looking back on the regiment 's finest hours , Richard Barnett talks to the men who were proud to have served with the Glorious Glosters : |
| 16 | It is an awful spectacle to see a ride galloping through the finish with reins flapping , bouncing around on the horse 's back . |
| 17 | Others were already wriggling around in the Alice 's undercarriage , zeroing in on the inlets . |
| 18 | Charles kept looking round for the room 's occupant . |
| 19 | Whipping off in the Doc 's DeLorean time machine to find 2015 in Hill Valley , California , a purgatorial version of its former self , with the old labouring under hormonal treatment that has fuddled their brains while rejuvenating their bodies and the young equipped with weapons of world-destruction , Marty McFly returns to discover the mid-Eighties in even worse disarray . |
| 20 | This experience is referred to many times in the Cantos : what its author most values in theory , the weighing of syllables in the line and the leading on of the reader 's breath from one syllable to the next . |
| 21 | Britain under Harold Macmillan was booming and new Austins and Morrises were flooding on to the country 's antiquated roads . |
| 22 | Clambering on to the horse 's back felt odd and briefly unsafe and then , unexpectedly , exhilarating . |
| 23 | What the hell was going on in the child 's mind . |
| 24 | So Libet 's experiments tell us something interesting about the information processing going on in the subject 's brain but they tell us nothing about the temporal relationship between physical events — either inside or outside the brain — and conscious experiences . |
| 25 | Most of the specifics , particularly tariffs , are the subject of talks going on in the company 's ATM Customer Advisory Council . |
| 26 | Skills analysis is an attempt to get at what is going on in the operator 's mind . |
| 27 | It is a sort of cultural conflict which must have been going on in the husband 's mind . |
| 28 | The patterns reflect what is going on in the horse 's foot , and especially in its tendons . |
| 29 | It is right that students be initiated into the conceptual apparatus , skills and ways of going on within the teacher 's own discipline ; and it is right that students therefore acquire the discipline required for the necessary understanding and competencies . |
| 30 | As one day followed another the garrison could not help wondering what was going on behind the Collector 's closed door . |